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Martyred Reformation leaders had apparently died in vain, they declared.

From Time • Oct. 30, 2017

His only extant play, The Martyred Soldier, a piece of little merit, has been reprinted by Mr. Bullen.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

The Profits arising from the First Edition of this Work, will be given to the Fund for erecting a Memorial to the Martyred Bishops at Oxford.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas

She seemed some anguished saint Martyred by visions.

From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy

The intense sympathy and warm appreciation portrayed therein for our Martyred President, as well as their artistic merit assure the poems a sacred place in the heart of every patriotic American.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)