burn at the stake

Example Sentences

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We would burn at the stake; but in an hour of social intercourse with our friends, or a trivial business transaction, we say the word which fills our life with regret.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

We have lighted a fire to purify, not to burn at the stake.

From Right Above Race by Kahn, Otto Hermann

No man was paid to burn at the stake or die on the cross that other men might be free to live.

From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr