| 1. | There is something of the martyr about her. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | Hark, wretches how I mean to martyr you. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | "I was praying to the martyr there on high.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | "I don't dare go out," said Anne, in the tone of a martyr relinquishing all earthly joys. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 5. | Her face grew set in its lines, but her eyes shone with the devotion of a martyr as she answered, "Ah n. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, playing the martyr she attributed all possible understanding to him. - from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
| 8. | "Let this victim to Baal be sent, To the lions the martyr be thrown Thy God shall teach thee to repent From th' abyss he'll give ear to my moan.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. - from The King James Bible |
| 10. | Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd b. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs an. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | To wipe away a tear for martyrs that want to, dying to, die. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 14. | I trembled with excess of agitation as I said this there was a frenzy in my manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 15. | "Yes," he said, "there have been some who have suffered more than I have, but then they must have been martyrs at least.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 16. | And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. - from The King James Bible |