But before he may enter his village he has to hang a live fowl, head uppermost, round his neck; then the bird is decapitated and its head left hanging round his neck.
Then they laid thedecapitated dummy down and covered it over, and the women began to mourn and wail.
An Ajumba hunter having killed a female hippopotamus on Lake Azyingo in West Africa, the animal was decapitated and its quarters and bowels removed.
More than a thousand patriot leaders perished when English gold was given for each decapitated corpse.
The Raja pursued on his famous wild elephant, which Lorik decapitatedwith a single blow.
Mr. Lane describes how women in Cairo walk under the stone on which the decapitated bodies of criminals are washed, in the hope of curing ophthalmia or procuring offspring.
I was named after the Marie Antoinette of history--another ancestor of mine--and the pride of the decapitated Queen of France is in me!
To further accentuate the reign of terror that had begun, the heads of twelve of the nobles who had been decapitated were exposed on the towers of the bridge of Prague, six on the bridge tower of the Mala Strana, six on that of the old town.
This design shows clearly how the 24 men were decapitated one after the other, and how three others were then hanged.
On August 20 two knights and two citizens, one of whom was Fikar, were decapitatedon the market-place before the Hradcany Castle.
One of the popular errors concerning these snails, is the opinion that when decapitated the body will produce a new head.
Turenne, who wrote a Treatise on the nature of snails, may be called the Attila of the species, since he admits having decapitated thousands and thousands.
The decapitated heads of Fletcher and Townley, stuck on poles over Temple Bar, are represented in conversation.
Subsequently Navarette and Ayala were decapitated by the executioner.
And he caused to be proclaimed on the ramparts, amidst a flourish of trumpets, that his sons, the treacherous beys, had been decapitated at Stambul.
Tepelenti, hearing that they had decapitated Zaid, went down into the camp and demanded his head.
One, two," the decapitated head had said, and the last moments of the two years were just passing away.
Clemens Alexandrinus apparently refers to the times immediately following the death of Commodus when he says--"Many martyrs are daily burned, crucified, and decapitated before our eyes.
In the case of the decapitated fowl, its muscles are excited to convulsive action by reason of its being thrown upon the hard ground and roughly handled.
A decapitated centipede will run rapidly forward, and will seemingly strive to overturn, or else climb over obstacles placed in its way.
The arrow missed its mark, and a flight of hostile darts stretched the young man on the ground: the traitor Tammaritu dealt the son his death-blow with his mace, while an Assyrian decapitated the father.
The Assyrian commander, suspecting a ruse, would not listen to any proposals, but ordered the envoy to be decapitated on the spot: Ituni broke his bow with a blow of his sword, and stoically yielded his neck to the executioner.
On the ground are three decapitated human heads, face upwards, and a dog.
On the ground, touching the feet, is a decapitated head and nine large pellets, perhaps cannon balls.
The culprits were immediatelydecapitated outside the West Gate.
Six of the officials conspired to assassinate the usurper at a dinner given to a Chinese envoy, but someone betrayed them to him and they were seized, tortured with red-hot irons, decapitated and dismembered.
Here and there decapitatedheads hang dripping from spikes.
Yesterday evening, by order of the Emperor, two eunuchs were decapitated simply for having announced to her the death of her son without preliminary forms.
The decapitated body he sewed up in a sack, and threw it into the sea.
Near this was the leathern bag containing the two decapitated heads, one of which had burst forth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decapitated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
