put to death

• “Cruelties exercised upon the Irish go for nothing in English reasoning; but if it were not uncandid and vexatious to consider Irish persecutions [90] as part of the case, I firmly believe there have been two Catholics put to death for religious causes in Great Britain for one Protestant who has suffered: not that this proves much, because the Catholics have enjoyed the sovereign power for so few years between this period and the”

  Sydney Smith

• “Freeman failed to see that the point was not the modern name of Lexovia, but the number of persons put to death by Henry, on which Froude had shown the worthlessness of popular tradition.”

  The Life of Froude

• “Worms, Mayence, and Cologue, and put to death all who refused to be converted (May to July, 1096).”

  Rashi

• “Charles of Duras had her taken to Muro, in the Basilicata, and had her put to death seven or eight months afterward.”

  Frederic Mistral

• “It was well known in Italy, and from the thirteenth century onward it was the privilege of the nobility to be put to death by a machine of this kind, which was called mannaia.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Saragossa, Vincent, Fructuosus with Augurius and Eulogius, Quirinus of Siscia, the martyrs of Calahorra put to death on the site of the baptistery, Cassianus of the Forum Cornelium, Romanus, Hippolytus,”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “When the king of Jafanatapan had notice of the flight of his son and nephew, he broke out into new fury against the Christians, and put to death great numbers of them.”

  The Works of John Dryden

• “These words were prophetical of what happened afterwards, when on Constantine de Braganza at one time, and Don Hurtado de Mendoca at another, destroyed all those islanders with the sword; and the king of Jafanatapan being himself taken, together with his eldest son, was put to death in his own palace; as if the divine justice had not deferred the death of this persecutor, but only to render it more terrible, and more memorable.”

  The Works of John Dryden

• “The Pope absolves the Queen, the pilgrim denounces the verdict furiously, and is put to death by Galeas of Mantua.”

  Frederic Mistral

• “Had the Consuls been put to death in the first tumult & before the nation had time to take sides, the Directory & councils might have reestablished themselves on the spot.”

  Letters

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