An Officer of the National Guard signaled for a drum roll to begin.
His last words were cut short by a drum roll.
Eye witness accounts of Anne Boleyn's execution remark on her bravery and composure. She gave a short dignified speech before her death. The scene in The Other Boleyn Girl where Anne cries on the scaffold is completely fictious.
William Howard Stafford has written: 'The speech of William late Lord Viscount Stafford, on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, immediately before his execution, Wednesday, Decemb. 29. 1680' -- subject(s): Popish Plot, 1678, Treason 'The tryal of William, Viscount Stafford for high treason' -- subject(s): Popish Plot, 1678, Trials (Treason), Trials, litigation 'The speech of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford' 'William late Viscount of Stafford, his last speech upon the scaffold on Tower-hill, Decemb. 29, 1680' -- subject(s): History, Sources
Some one shot him before he could finish the speech.
A noun (as in "run to the finish"). A verb (as in "when you finish...").
Finish is a verb. "I have to finish my homework."
On the 30 January, Charles was taken to a scaffold built outside Whitehall Palace. Charles wore two shirts as he was worried that if he shivered in the cold people would think he was afraid of dying. Troopers on horseback kept the crowds some distance from the scaffold, and it is unlikely that many people heard the speech that he made just before his head was cut off with an axe.
That's what it means to be Un- Australian
That's what it means to be Un- Australian
Long before.
The entire speech, from start to finish, is about 8 and a half minutes long, very short.
The contraction mightn't is a combination of the auxiliary verb 'might' and the adverb'not'.Example: We might not have time to finish. OR: We mightn't have time to finish.