How they wanted to behead the Princess, and did not do it.
When a father has sworn to behead his daughter, he must either fulfill his oath, or sink into hell for ever; and I will not damn myself out of love for you.
To-morrow, which is the eighth day of my encampment, I will cause the white bull to be swallowed up by the fish, and I will behead you precisely at nine o'clock in the morning.
Will you suffer him to behead me to-morrow, at nine o'clock in the morning?
They would behead him, and rob my family of all they possess.
They have sent to ask leave to behead the barbarian: better still, to slice him.
Behead a cape of North America, and leave a weapon.
Behead a gulf on the coast of Africa, and leave a lair of wild beasts.
Behead a river in South Africa, and leave a kind of stove.
Go," said the king, "behead him instantly; I give you full authority.
My whole is a fish, but if you behead An exclamation will be left instead.
Behead again, and you will behold A craft that was famous in days of old.
In case any of my troops should dare, contrary to my orders, to molest any of your countrymen or to injure their property, I will, on your arresting and handing over to me the offender, at once behead him.
Otherwise, I will do all I can to prevent their being molested, and will at once behead any of my followers who dare to offer them any annoyance.
There was set up in Cheapside a block tobehead lawyers and all such as were enemy to the people, and there were a-many slain in this fashion, hastily, without shrift.
Behead again, complete the fall, From a mighty Major-General To an insect most exceedingly small.
The morning I was to die, I was washed and all my gold ornaments made bright and shining, and then carried to the palace, where the King was to behead me himself (as is the custom of the place).
For to us belongs the right to behead Finn and his companions, since it is the spell-venom of the clay which we brought from the Island of the Torrent that holds them bound in the Palace of the Quicken Trees.
How can you all stand by, seeing how she's killed him, and not behead her?
When the marquis had captured the king, he sent word to the captain to come and beheadhis enemy, the King of Egypt.
We put this Tartar beggar into your clothes, and Tsu-Hi into mine, and let Chang behead 'em as if they were actually foreign devils.
In a case such as this the sternest example must be read, and were I to behead the Tartar under-officer alone, and merely admonish Tsu-Hi, the people of the city would see in such leniency an encouragement to attack Europeans again.
But as she was opening them at every moment, the executioner could not bear their tender and mild glances; fearful of missing his aim, he was obliged to invent an expedient to behead the queen.
Behead a firm hard animal substance, and leave a single number.
Behead sudden terror, and leave what we should all do.
Behead kept too long, and leave an interesting narrative.
The most severe punishment required an officer to unsheathe his samurai sword and behead the "brothers.
Severe crimes called for an officer to unsheathe his samurai sword and behead the criminal.
Behead part of a wagon, and leave a part of the body.
A day or two before the King came to the scaffold about thirty-eight of them were sworn to secrecy by Colonel Hewson, and they were all asked whether they would behead the King for a hundred pounds, and a promise of preferment in the army.
Some said that the time assigned for it was during the night, when twenty-five thousand of them would enter the city and behead our men.
But as the stroke was first caught by the hood [of the father's habit], the barbarian did not succeed in his purpose, which had been to behead him in a moment.
The custom that they observed with those slaves was, to behead them immediately after having fed them sumptuously, so that they might not fail the service and company of such influential men, since the latter needed them, as they said.
Behead a preposition, and leave a letter of the alphabet.
Behead a hard and valuable wood, and leave a quality which belongs to a delicious fish.
Behead a prickly redness, and leave a graceful tree.
Behead a rheumatic affection, and leave a pile of hay.
Behead a time-piece, and leave something by which treasures are protected.
Behead a brave champion, and leave a period of darkness.
Then you'd better behead me as Spackmann for the murder of Bastable," I said with a shrug of indifference.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
