The burial was conducted in solemn silence, save as regarded the Hebrew matron, and her deep thrilling accents were meeter requiem for the martyrs than the loudest lamentations of hired mourners would have been.
What can the devotion of our patriots avail but to swell the band of martyrs who have already laid down their lives in defence of our faith and our laws!
A skirmish ensued, in which seven Americans--the first martyrs of the Revolution--were killed.
Thousands of female martyrs had sealed their testimony with their blood, opposing the authority of their husbands, and had been honored by the church.
Thousands of martyrs have gone gaily to death for religion; and martyrdom to simple honesty and goodness of heart is, no doubt, more difficult though not less realizable than martyrdom to death.
Not only was the event commemorated, but the martyrs who then gave up their lives were remembered and honored.
Your Acadian fathers were martyrs in a noble cause, and you should always be proud to be the sons ofmartyrs and of men of principle.
We felt that none but noble causes lead to martyrdom, and we looked upon ourselves as martyrs of a saintly cause, and with a clear conscience, we lay down to sleep under the blue canopy of the heavens.
I thought to myself that I bet the folks that used to watch martyrs were heard to say that martyrs prob’ly thought flames was becoming or they wouldn’t be burnt.
We delight to honor, in words, those heroes and martyrs from whom we have received the rich boon of civil and religious liberty.
While we reproach and loathe the man whose eyes are red and weeping with the effects of intemperate drinking, we cordially pity purblind students, as in some sense martyrs to the cause of learning.
He has been called one of the earliest martyrs to the cause of the Colonies.
Poets have caught them in the "Shivering whisper of startled leaves," martyrs in the crackling faggots, heroes amid the din of battle.
Wherever man shall battle for the right, There shall thy sons fall thickest in the fight; Wherever man shall perish to be free, There shall thy martyrs foremost be!
In Spain it was carried to such lengths as to makemartyrs of their kings.
Not so," interrupted the malignant Bautru, "Benserade in this imitates those holy martyrs who are always represented with the instrument which occasioned their sufferings.
But the Duchess of Longueville contemplated in Arnauld a model of human fortitude which martyrs never excelled.
The echoes of a thousand savage martyrs who will not bow down to the Pope.
His soul began to burn with the spirit of martyrs and reformers.
His conviction grew into a religion permeated with the warmth, earnestness, and devotion that martyrs only have shown to their cause.
They take more pains to earn hell than the martyrs of Christ to obtain heaven.
He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.
Mr. Adams, who has examined this social sore so thoroughly, at what cost in pain to himself only the most sensitive amongst us can guess, deserves to be ranked with the martyrs of science.
We're all fancying ourselves as hard as we can for martyrs and arranging Ada's life for her.
The blood of the martyrs we were assured in those early days was the seed of the church.
The Persian inclination towards the emotional side of human nature was not slow to discover amid the early martyrs of the Faith one figure whose pathetic end was powerful to awaken every chord of human pity.
I--I may be called out at any moment," urged Amidon, amidst an outcry that seemed to indicate a breach with the Martyrs then and there.
With labored breath and straining muscles he climbed, the Martyrs rolling on the floor in merriment all the more violent because silent.
The Bellevale lodge of the Ancient Order of Christian Martyrs held its meetings in the upper story of a tall building.
The Martyrs slapped one another's backs and grew blue in the face with laughter.
But after the bodies of these martyrs had remained fourteen days exposed to the sun, they remained as fresh and uncorrupted as on the day of their martyrdom.
Other martyrs have died, bravely and tenderly, in their last hours "bearing witness of the godlike" that is in man; but who so remembers them?
For not alone in those old Eastern regions Are Christ's beloved ones tried by cross and chain; In many a house are his elect ones hidden, His martyrs suffering in their patient pain.
These martyrs had gone down as heretics under the darkness and superstition of the preceding seal, covered with ignominy and shame.
When the Reformers exposed the work of the Papacy, it was then called to mind how many martyrs had been slain for their faith.
We need not suppose that themartyrs were always the noblest of the human race.
When we speak of martyrs being happy on the rack; in the first place we rarely believe it, and in the second we are usually supposing that the rack will soon be over and that harps and golden crowns will presently follow.
St. Augustine says about the disreputable hordes of would-be martyrs called Circumcelliones.
Rive, and touching the hilt of their swords, "all of us who adhere to the holy Sacrament are resolved to die martyrs for our holy faith.
If, from the ashes of the martyrsat Cappel, a voice could be heard, it would be these very words of the Bible that these noble confessors would address, after three centuries, to the Christians of our days.
The martyrs allowed themselves to be put to death," said they, "rather than burn a grain of incense before the idols.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "martyrs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
