Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.

I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants.

His drawl lengthened into pure Plantation Niggerese, and he winced with the pain of trying not to speak that way. He knew better, he told himself.

Black has survived the attack and is better due to his active king! Many moves later, he converted.