She was the widow of a Dutch sea-captain, who died suddenly of a fever, in consequence of working too hard, and eating too heartily, at the time when all the inhabitants turned out in a panic, to fortify the place against the invasion of a small French privateer.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
And now the English were determined to fortify Virginia "all at once."
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
I sighed and took half a glass of claret to fortify me.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross