martyr

• This martyr was a cousin, once removed, of the murdered ecclesiastic. —  John Knox and the Reformation
• Not as a martyr, as Aideen had suggested, but as what he had always been: a soldier. —  Mission Of Honor
• I wish you would try not to be; a martyr is a noble character, but one does not wish one for a constant companion. " —  The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest
• He poses as a martyr, and cries out that "the blood of the martyr is the seed of faith"; he pours out imprecations upon other religious sects; calls down maledictions upon the qualified doctors, who are to him merely "sorcerers and poisoners"; consigns "the vipers of the press" to destruction; and, carried away by the violence of his anathemas, launches this peroration upon the ears of his admiring audience: —  Modern Saints and Seers
• Canturburie, granting him licence to build a church at Alkinton, in honour of S. S.ephan and Thomas Becket now reputed a martyr, and that the fourth part of the offerings which came to the box of Thomas the martyr should be assigned to the vse of the moonks, & an other fourth part to the buildings of that church, and an other fourth part to be giuen to the poore, and the other fourth part remaining he might reserue to himselfe to bestow at his pleasure. —  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second

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