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My father was firm. The margravine reached her two hands to him. He kissed over them each in turn. They interchanged smart semi-flattering or cutting sentences. 'Good! she concluded; 'now I sulk you for five years. 'You would decapitate me, madam, and weep over my astonished head, would you not? 'Upon my honour, I would, she shook herself to reply. He smiled rather sadly.
I had caught cat-fish before, but never one so large as this, and I was actually afraid to take hold of it, knowing, as I did, that you must be very careful how you clutch a fish of the kind. I finally concluded to carry it home as it was, and then I could decapitate it, and take out the hook at my leisure.
They have a French bonne apiece, and a most murderous-looking person a Mahommedan native, I believe stalks alongside and behaves as if he would instantly decapitate any person who as much as looked at them. Such a procession you never saw! Mrs. Anstruther's devotion to her husband is too absurd.
"The law cannot reach him through its usual servants," he said; "it is a bold enterprise I propose to you to decapitate a general at the head of his troops." If this was a measure which hardly another minister than Laski would have contemplated, it was one also which he would have hardly found another than Hakem to undertake and accomplish.
"It is generally supposed," says one of her critics, "that Kang Yu-wei suggested to the Emperor, that if he would render his own position secure, he must retire the Empress Dowager, and decapitate Jung Lu."
The awe of the eighth century for a Priest or Bishop had already disappeared in the tenth, when Christian hands were found to decapitate Cormac of Cashel, and offer his head as a trophy to the Ard-Righ.
They began to shout excitedly, calling for help. In a moment the alarm was given, a crowd of men rushed at us, and, with their swords drawn, surrounded us. One man, braver than the rest, gave Mansing a few cuts with a whip, warning us that if the ropes were found undone again they would decapitate us there and then. The coolie was again bound more tightly than ever.
They seem to have a special appetite for the heads of fowls, and will often decapitate a half dozen in a single night, leaving the bodies in otherwise good condition to tell the story of their midnight murders. The home of the wild cat is made in some cleft of rock, or in the hollow of some aged tree, from which the creature issues in the dark hours and starts upon its marauding excursions.
But when they had mounted the platform, Bernardo fainted a second time; and as the executioner was approaching to his assistance, some of the crowd, supposing that his object was to decapitate him, cried loudly, "He is pardoned!" The executioner reassured them by seating Bernardo near the block, Giacomo kneeling on the other side.
My father was firm. The margravine reached her two hands to him. He kissed over them each in turn. They interchanged smart semi-flattering or cutting sentences. 'Good! she concluded; 'now I sulk you for five years. 'You would decapitate me, madam, and weep over my astonished head, would you not? 'Upon my honour, I would, she shook herself to reply. He smiled rather sadly.
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