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Updated: May 18, 2025
Hence, probably, the application of the word capital to the principal crimes receiving the highest punishment, which was formerly practiced extensively in other countries by beheading or decapitating the criminals.
Riversedge snipped vigorously at the nearest rose bush, incidentally decapitating a Viscountess Folkestone that was just coming into bloom. "What was on the paper?" she asked. "Just the words in pencil, 'I love you, Florrie, and then underneath, crossed out with a faint line, but perfectly plain to read, 'Meet me in the garden by the yew."
The Malay held it close for the lads to examine, which, after learning its deadly character, they were not particularly eager to do; but the native laughed, and seemed to think very little of the danger, ending by placing the reptile's neck upon the fallen tree, and decapitating it with one clean cut of the knife.
The Formosans, delighted with this feat of submission, spared the lives of himself and his companions and kept them in prison instead of decapitating them.
Decapitating politically dear Dom Pedro, true patriot, though emperor he came to me once in my library, pouring out his soul for his beloved Brazil they abolished slavery, formed a republic, and modernized the city. They made boulevards and water drives, the finest in the world.
She would find that man of God that man of sanctified genius as glad to get his enemies into his hands, as she would be to get him into the hands of his enemies: not, however, for the purpose of disgracing and decapitating them, but, that he might pour out upon them the forgiveness and love of his generous and abolitionized heart.
Thanks to certain accessory details, it is possible to assume that Lupa is the symbol of the "God without a name" of Celtic mythology, and it is she who finally venges herself by decapitating the pilgrim saint. The disciples of St. James laid his corpse in a cart, together with the executioner's axe and the pilgrim's staff.
Manson was in the rear, decapitating daisies with his heavy oak stick. A few minutes later Clark looked up and saw the chief constable's bulk filling the doorway. He waited placidly. "Did you mean just what you said about that land?" Manson's voice sounded a little sheepish, "because I've got a bit saved up, and " "Mr.
Alba began by decapitating those leaders who had not wisely left the country before his arrival. The next year he laid siege to the town of Leyden, the manufacturing center of Holland.
In the war-dance the participants, who were Moro fighting men, and were armed with spears, shields, and the vicious, broad-bladed knives known as barongs, gave a highly realistic representation of pinning an enemy to the earth with a spear, and with the barong decapitating him.
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