Sentence examples for her executioners from inspiring English sources

Nothing is more moving than when she turns to her executioners and simply says, "I forgive them".

Although her big contribution to Belgian health care was to provide secular nurse training, replacing nuns, Cavell herself always appeared to have been an extremely pious Christian, allegedly forgiving her executioners.

As for Rosa Luxemburg, had a Berlin "mob" been anywhere to hand at the time, it would have directed its efforts to securing her release from the captors who, far from striving to protect her, speedily upgraded themselves to being her executioners, rifle-butting her to the ground, shooting her in the head and dumping her body in a canal.

Hibner did not go to the scaffold willingly, but had to be restrained in a straitjacket to prevent her from attacking her executioners.

As the girl awaits her executioner, she scrambles our sense of who's zooming in on whom.

Again, she cannily chooses a character on the sidelines, this time it's the Countess of Salisbury, who was beheaded as an old woman and who notoriously fought her executioner, to die in a horrifically bloody way.

Stephen Gilchrist, head of City legal firm Saunders Law, said: "Appointing Hector Sants as head of compliance is a bit like Mary Queen of Scots appointing her executioner to represent her best interests.

Her executioner was "a wretched and blundering youth" who "literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces".

Here, in the two-room flat of her "executioner," streetwise Stanley and a slatternly Stella grunt out their existence, enduring blows and brutal desire in equal measure.

Rieff likens his mother's attitude to that of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV, who on the scaffold pleaded with her executioner for "just one more minute of life".

In the Saudi coastal town of Dammam, a Christian Filipina accused of killing her employer and his family was dragged into a public square in 1993, and forced to kneel on the ground where her male executioner snatched her scarf from her head before decapitating her with a sword.