A guillotine was consequently developed that could behead twenty-five persons at a time. |
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Most likely it was some tradition from the days long ago when the executioners would personally behead the criminals. |
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In several of these areas, insurgents have killed election officials and threatened to behead anyone who votes. |
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I can only assume that it had been found stuck in a lobster pot or something, but why behead it? |
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He was about to behead him when he wounded himself with the cutting edge of his sword. |
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The soldier, killed by two Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him, was 25 years old and had a two year old son. |
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One famous drama critic, the late Alexander Woollcott, could behead a new play with a single thrust of his pen. |
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In April, the Taliban used a 12-year-old boy to behead a Pakistani they believed was a spy. |
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A dead goose is strung up over a stage, and competitors are invited to try to behead it. |
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They were also tremendous goldsmiths, outstanding farmers, skilled carpenters, refined men who anyway were used to behead their enemies. |
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The emperor tried to execute him but the blade of the axe broke each time they tried to behead him. |
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Militants threatened to behead him unless their demand was met. |
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When Khaled Saad answers his phone there is often a voice on the other end threatening to behead him. |
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Right now a young woman whose husband tried to behead her is recovering from her injuries in a Ghor hospital. |
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He stepped forward as he spoke, and his esquire gave him the two-hand Sword of State, heavy enough to behead a bisonoid. |
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On June 2, 2006, Canadian police arrested 17 Toronto residents for allegedly plotting to bomb Toronto infrastructure, behead Canadian politicians and commit other acts of al-Qaida-inspired extremism. |
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They not only kill soldiers in battle, they behead them and burn them. |
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If I told people that the reason for that was that I wanted to go back to the islands, stamp on a finch, behead a tortoise and garotte an iguana, they would assume I was a psychopath. |
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Militants sometimes behead victims and set bodies ablaze. |
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While recalling the principle of freedom of expression, the Minister stressed that the sites that have been closed were advocating terrorism and inciting to behead innocent people. |
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It is alleged that the Toronto Group had intended to attack the Parliament Buildings, storm CBC offices in Toronto, take hostages, and even behead the Prime Minister. |
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I suspect the Brits used to behead people for lesser breaches of protocol. |
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The attacking soldier makes rapid lunging movements, opening and closing its mandibles in a scissorlike action that can behead, dismember, lacerate, or grip a foe. |
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Joe would be careful to skin it over the sink, then lay it flat on its pelt to drain it, behead it, de-paw it, de-muck it. |
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The majority of the cardinals voted for the future Urban VI after the people of Rome burst into the papal conclave pushing the door down and threatening to behead them. |
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Two Melbourne teenagers planned to run down a Victorian police officer, behead him, take his weapon, then go on a violent rampage until they were both dead, a Melbourne court has heard. |
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