What is "beheading"

Usage examples of "beheading".

Charles Dickens, famed inventor of Christmas ghosts and Tiny Tim, when visiting Rome in 1845 chose to broaden his experience of the world by witnessing the beheading of a criminal.

In France, simple beheading had formerly been reserved for aristocrats, but now everyone in the newly classless society could enjoy its benefits.

They were the regulars who did their best never to miss a beheading, rain or shine.

The idea of a man wearing a hat to his own beheading suddenly struck Radcliffe as tremendously amusing, and he began to chuckle, an ugly sound.

Or did the great and supreme sleeping Karsus fall to a passing adventurer-mage of puny spells, who thought he was beheading a lich?

Cold Rice had already put it between himself and the inevitable beheading of his reckless partner by a ghost.

She would have considered it a bargain to have her head sawed off with a blunt sword in exchange for the privilege of beheading Kira.

But during the few years since the fall of the Bastille, the new stories of mass beheadings and worse were deeply disturbing.

Hamid-Jones shuddered as he thought of all the beheadings, amputations of right hands, and other statutory mutilations that had been carried out on the sinister Carpet of Blood.

The beheadings, though, were mostly disappointments, except for one responsive victim whose decapitated corpse managed four or five floundering steps before toppling.

Damocles, gorily beheading four opponents with a single stroke of a sword larger than himself, swung in a very Freudian manner.

Here, thought Conan, were tokens from the long-dead realms of forgotten legendry, when priests and wizards ruled with awful terror, dragging maidens screaming to dark caverns where ghastly rituals were performed, or beheading thousands of prisoners in the public squares until rivers of bubbling blood filled the gutters.

Dakar suggested, reamed already by cramps that made beheading seem merciful by comparison.

He sees how the Londoners like violent sports like bearbaiting and beheadings at Tyburn, so he writes the most violent play ever written.

David Hassid and Chang to know that Carpathia wanted these to be tortured to within an inch of their lives but not allowed to die before their public beheadings.