Another dead end, but at least he spared the girl.
A story is told that Cromwell spared the town from bombardment owing to the wit of a woman who drank his health at the town-gate.
Comparatively few relics of the early town have been spared by time and the improvements of the modern city.
He admired her intelligence, loved her, and spared her life.
His life was spared, and he was sent by Octavian to Spain as governor.