What is "behead"

Usage examples of "behead".

Darken Rahl rule us, or behead us, or even torture us to death, than what you have allowed to happen.

If the young priest were of noble or warrior birth, as Viper suspected, he would have the right and the inclination to behead the two commoners right there.

When Queen Cyrilla was taken out to be beheaded, he made a daring raid, and in the confusion of people come to see the execution, he snatched his sister from the axeman.

Had beheaded him and beaten him as punishment, had drugged and hypnotized him into decades of dreaming hell.

As far as Melanie knew, her father was still alive, but he could easily have been beheaded this morning, or yesterday, or the day before, and she, at this distance from Paris, would be none the wiser.

Jesus was not beheaded and the image is a composite, so we are being asked to consider the images of two separate characters who were nevertheless closely linked in some way.

Very few depict scenes of John being beheaded, or feature his severed head, for it is only in those places where he is particularly venerated that such imagery is deemed appropriate.

The Knight Gawain searches for the sword that beheaded John the Baptist, and which magically bleeds every day at noon.

Julian was conducted into a private apartment of the baths of the palace, and beheaded as a common criminal, after having purchased, with an immense treasure, an anxious and precarious reign of only sixty-six days.

Thascius Cyprianus should be immediately beheaded, as the enemy of the gods of Rome, and as the chief and ringleader of a criminal association, which he had seduced into an impious resistance against the laws of the most holy emperors, Valerian and Gallienus.

Felix, who disdained even to give an evasive answer, was at length beheaded at Venusia, in Lucania, a place on which the birth of Horace has conferred fame.

Constantine, with his hands tied behind his back, was beheaded in prison like the vilest malefactor.

Greeks still revere the holy memory of two clerks, a reader, and a sub-deacon, who were accused of the murder of Hermogenes, and beheaded at the gates of Constantinople.

Presbyter, of the name of Theodoret, was beheaded by the sentence of the Count of the East.

About the same time, the restorer of Britain and Africa, on a vague suspicion that his name and services were superior to the rank of a subject, was ignominiously beheaded at Carthage.