The shell burst, but fortunately too far away to hurt anybody.

Neither the bursting of the shell nor any other part of the cannonade interrupted the burial.
Crockett, a public man and an orator, said a few words.

They were sympathetic and well chosen.

He spoke of the two men as dying for Texas.
Others, too, would fall in the defence of the Alamo, but their blood would water the tree of freedom.

Then they threw in the dirt.