" Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me, why when Peter had exterminated the pirates he did not return to the island and leave Tink to escort the children to the mainland.
If everybody in London, New York, and Moscow were exterminated, the world might, in the course of a few centuries, recover from the blow.
In 44th year of Jiajing Reign, he exterminated the Japanese pirates in Guangdong Province.
The old man who was driving the oxen told them that in the lifetime of his father the horses had many a hard battle with the wild beasts that were now exterminated.