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Further unrest is expected as activists use Facebook to urge more demonstrations in what they call "Martyrs Week".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The masochistic praxis attendant upon the earlier engagement with both the text and the illustrations of Foxe's Book of Martyrs is here occluded by Equiano's phallic deployment of the bible as a prop in colonial performance.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Martyrs, or rather to the God of the Martyrs_: and a little after he calls the Martyrs _mediators of obtaining an ascension or divinity_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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So he calls the Martyrs for Chriftianicy 5 and adds, that thefe Monkr redu: 'ting into ashes the heads and the bones ef perjhns iondemned to death for their crimes j matk Gods of them J and profirated themfelves before them.
The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies: Proving that the Papacy is ... 1687
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"This -- is th 'Martyrs' -- burning-place," he stammered as they dragged across a broad street.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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"This -- is th 'Martyrs' -- burning-place," he stammered as they dragged across a broad street.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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'Martyrs' -- the rest having been used apparently by the casual nurses, who came to tend Reuben's poor mother in her last days, to light the fire -- a complete copy of Locke 'On the Human
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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On Friday, many said they had come out in anger on a day that organizers dubbed "Martyrs' Friday" to commemorate the deaths of two activists killed in a grenade attack in the square Feb 18.
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On Friday, many said they had come out in anger on a day that organizers dubbed "Martyrs' Friday" to commemorate the deaths of two activists killed in a grenade attack in the square Feb 18.
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On Friday, many said they had come out in anger on a day that organizers dubbed "Martyrs' Friday" to commemorate the deaths of two activists killed in a grenade attack in the square Feb 18.
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