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Luckily, the system fell apart when the head of this confederacy of dunces was lopped from the shoulders.

Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

With a solid strike his sword lopped off one of the screeling's arms.

Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

The carnivorous flower's first warning that all was not well was received when Stevens 'steel-shod feet landed squarely upon its base and one sweeping cut of his sword lopped off the malignant blossom and severed the two tendrils that still held the unconscious Nadia.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Seeing this our hero made a sudden rush at one of the men who fought with a battle-axe, seized the axe by the handle, and with one sweep of his sword lopped off the man's arm.

Erling the Bold 1859

But the spear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his sword lopped off his head as it bended in death.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

But the fpear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his fword lopped off his head, as it bended in death.

The Poems of Ossian 1784

Roche, whose statement kicks off third-quarter reports from big pharmaceutical companies, said the franc had lopped 13 percent off its top line in the first nine months of the year and that if exchange rates were to remain stable, the full-year sales impact would be 12 percent.

Strong Swiss franc hits Roche sales Reuters 2011