“And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.”
Bible
“But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.”
“And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.”
“The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.”
Herman Melville
“With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.”
Piero Grasso
“And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, / And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.”
“Nobody was beheaded or killed,”
Bayan Jabr