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- Sir Edmond Calvert, never having been convinced that beheading the lawful sovereign of England would be prudent, had opposed it from the start. - "Caribbee", Thomas Hoover.
- It left uncommon low water all about the chimney- to abate which appearance, the same person now proceeds to slice fifteen feet off the chimney itself, actually beheading my royal old chimney- a regicidal act, which, were it not for the palliating fact that he was a poulterer by trade, and, therefore, hardened to such neck- wringings, should send that former proprietor down to posterity in the same cart with Cromwell. - "I and My Chimney", Herman Melville.
- They are shooting down and beheading everybody who wears a white collar. - "Erik Dorn", Ben Hecht.