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Example sentences for "guillotined"

Lexicographically close words:
guilelessness; guillemot; guillemots; guilloche; guillotine; guillotining; guilt; guiltie; guiltier; guiltiest
  1. None of them, however, seem to have attained the higher mysteries, for they were all guillotined not long after.

  2. He was also a martyr to any thing that remained of the very shadow of liberty after the Revolution, being guillotined by Robespierre.

  3. One half of the entire number of victims, namely, 1356, were guillotined after the Law of Prairial.

  4. Robespierre was inflamed with resentment, not because so many people were guillotined every day, but because the objects of his own enmity were not among them.

  5. During the Reign of Terror he escaped to England, but his wife, Marie Ruault, Marquise de Gamaches, in her own right, was captured and guillotined with Marie Antoinette.

  6. He was one of Robespierre's Committee of Public Welfare, and being in some way implicated in a charge of treachery brought against Simon, another Deputy, was guillotined at the same time with Danton.

  7. It was Tallien's boast to have guillotined only aristocrats, and of this part of his merit I am willing to leave him in possession.

  8. Dumont, I know, expects to establish a reputation by not having guillotined as an amusement, and hopes that he may here find a retreat when his revolutionary labours shall be finished.

  9. About this time a woman who sold newspapers, and the printer of them, were guillotined for paragraphs deemed incivique.

  10. It is difficult to imagine what new means of dispatch this airy barbarian had contrived, for in the six weeks preceding this harangue, twelve hundred and fifty had been guillotined in Paris only.

  11. There were some priests guillotined at Amiens, but the circumstance was concealed from me for some months after it happened.

  12. Madame Momoro, the unfortunate woman who exposed herself in this pageant, was guillotined as an accomplice of Hebert, together with the wives of Hebert and Camille Desmoulins.

  13. The base and selfish timidity of the Convention is strongly evinced by their suffering fifty innocent people to be guillotined on the very ninth of Thermidor, for a pretended conspiracy in the prison of St. Lazare.

  14. And his knife guillotined another delicious hunk of white bread.

  15. Oh hardly guillotined I should say," remarked t-d, in a voice which froze my marrow despite my high spirits; while the cook and carpenter gaped audibly and the mechanician clutched a hopelessly smashed carburetor for support.

  16. He was at once led away to the Conciergerie prison, and sentenced on the spot to be guillotined as soon as possible, for being a promoter of sedition in connection with the conspiracy of August the 10th.

  17. In November, 1793, they are to declare through the official inauguration of the revolutionary government: "those whose opinions differ from ours will be guillotined and we shall be their heirs.

  18. He is guillotined at Paris, Thermidor 5, year II.

  19. Let me show you my house; you know it was formerly the hotel of the Prince de Salms, he that was guillotined the other day; but you know nothing, for you have been out of Paris this month, I understand.

  20. Combray wrote after the Restoration--forgetting that she was guillotined under the Empire!

  21. Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Did ye see no more o' my true love?

  22. Their priests showed them other priests whose necks had been reddened by a tightly drawn cord, saying to them: "These are the guillotined come to life again.

  23. The old man did well when he saved the children, you did well to save the old man; and if men are to be guillotined for their good actions, then we might as well go to the deuce; and I am sure I don't know what it all means.

  24. So he guillotined Hébert, who had celebrated the Feast of Reason, and all his party.

  25. Stobart to talk at length on the teaching of English, but I was surprised to find myself selected as his scapegoat and "guillotined in distinguished company" (that of the old regime).

  26. He went to Paris during the French Revolution and was finally guillotined by Robespierre.

  27. He finally fell into the hands of Robespierre, and was tried and guillotined at the age of sixty-nine.

  28. Malesherbes was guillotined in 1794, during "the Reign of Terror.

  29. Lyons rebelled against the Republic in the summer of 1793: against Jacobinism, in the first instance, and guillotined its jacobin leader, Chalier; later it declared for the king.

  30. Guérin, to be guillotined on the heinous charge of corresponding with his former employers and friends beyond the frontier.

  31. And these miserable Englishmen burnt one,' he added scornfully, 'and these miserable Frenchmen guillotined the other.

  32. Jourdan, it may be added, was guillotined in May, 1794.

  33. He afterwards led the Brissotins against the Montagnards, and was guillotined with the Girondists in October, 1793.

  34. She was arrested and guillotined in 1794.

  35. Vidou, a superannuated widow of ninety, who was guillotined in company with her son, an amiable and respectable man, and was unconscious of her fate till the last.

  36. Forty nuns of the convent of Bollene were also among the prisoners, accused of a plot to bring about a counter-revolution, and four had been already guillotined on this charge when the fall of Robespierre took place.

  37. Have you had any more scoundrels guillotined since the other day?

  38. Gevrol; "and it was also he who almost had poor Dereme guillotined for killing his wife, a thorough bad woman; and all the while the poor man was innocent.

  39. Where he has, doubtless, been guillotined for his royal blood,' broke in the Cardinal.

  40. It would be better for him not to have such a brother, for he is a scoundrel, who will be guillotined one of these days; his sisters also.

  41. Yes, people are guillotined who do not deserve it as much as he does.

  42. What would Boniface de la Mole have said if, lifting his cut-off head out of the tomb, he had seen seventeen of his descendants allow themselves to be caught like sheep in 1793 in order to be guillotined two days afterwards!

  43. Well, yes, my friend: guillotined in three days," he answered the interruptor.

  44. Which of you would not be delighted to have a son guillotined at a price like this,' will be the message they will read in his eyes.

  45. Then poor Andre Legrand will be pardoned," whispered a voice suddenly; "he was to have been guillotined to-day.

  46. If you escape the children and I would be guillotined the very next day.

  47. Afterward each fraction of the sovereign body in the Convention had proscribed the other; the Montagnards had guillotined the Girondists, and the Thermidorians had guillotined the Montagnards.

  48. It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guillotined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.