Martyrs

Examples

• We have seen pictures of martyrs enough, and saints enough, to regenerate the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A matinee for the little folks is promised for this afternoon, on which occasion several martyrs will be eaten by the tigers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All who know us are aware that although we are at times justly severe upon tigers and martyrs, we never intentionally offend gladiators. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But Howe’s life was a fight, and his triumph that of one of the great martyrs of invention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Fourth--Some twelve or fifteen canonized Popes and martyrs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She heard him murmur to himself, 'The martyrs and confessors had even more pain to bear--I will not shrink. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But humble as we are, and unpretending, in the matter of art, our researches among the painted monks and martyrs have not been wholly in vain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Both sides produced genuine martyrs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are the two chief Shiite martyrs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These Abbasids took up the tradition of the Shiite martyrs, Ali and his sons Hasan and Husein, and identified themselves with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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