`I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
`You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a large flower-pot that stood near.
The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
The peeled white body of the
beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.
In 1649 King Charles was
beheaded. Oliver Cromwell then became Protector of England; and as he was a Puritan himself, and had risen by the valor of the English Puritans, he showed himself a loving and indulgent father to the Puritan colonies in America."
When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly
beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine.
The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody,
beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it.
The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged,
beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it.
Not until the end of five minutes of mad struggling, in which he behaved for all the world like a
beheaded chicken, did he find life tolerable again.
Well, she's a sweet-tempered, good-humoured lady, be she what she will, and I shall hardly refrain from crying when I hear she is hanged or
beheaded." "Pooh!" answered the husband.
The mandaia* never fails, never trembles, never strikes thirty times ineffectually, like the soldier who beheaded the Count of Chalais, and to whose tender mercy Richelieu had doubtless recommended the sufferer.
On my word, I almost regret that in all probability this miserable Peppino will not be beheaded, as you might have had an opportunity then of seeing how short a time the punishment lasts, and whether it is worth even mentioning; but, really this is a most singular conversation for the Carnival, gentlemen; how did it arise?
beheaded - having had the head cut off; "the beheaded prisoners"