6 sentences with 'beheaded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word beheaded and other words derived from it.
• « Criminals who were not hanged or beheaded were routinely flogged, branded or mutilated to inspire (in so many words of the magistrates of the time) terror among other potential lawbreakers or rebels. »
• « During the period known as "the Terror", the king and queen were beheaded, French society was divided in bloody conflict, tens of thousands were guillotined, and the revolutionary government launched a blasphemous crusade against the church. »
• « Don't leave a puppet with his head: The origin of this saying goes back to an episode included by Cervantes in the greatest work of the Castilian language: Don Quixote. In the chapter in question, Don Quixote attacked the altarpiece of Maese Pedro, leaving no puppet with his head, as in his attack he literally beheaded all the figures. »
• « To fight Lavalle and the Coalition of the North, Governor Rosas sent troops under the command of Manuel Oribe and Ángel Pacheco. The latter defeated Lamadrid at Rodeó del Medio, while the former defeated Lavalle successively at Quebracho Herrado and Famaillá. The Northern Coalition collapsed and several of its leaders, including Marco Avellaneda, were beheaded. »
• « Inside this Temple, some ten thousand were beheaded. Had they been there, their feet would have been stained to the ankles with the blood of the slain. »
• « After years of fighting, the parliamentary forces gained the upper hand and in 1649 accused Charles I of treason and beheaded him. »