How To Use Executioner In A Sentence

So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
But I'd never ask anyone - a hangman or executioner, to do something I wouldn't do myself, nor approve of it.
Plus, too many black children see school as a place where they're supposed to get reprimanded and putting black educators as main executioner; we're essentially fortifying centuries-old traditions of promoting blacks as overseer in the proverbial plantation. Jose Vilson: Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren't as Effective in the Classroom... Yet
One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale, and burst into tears. The Pacha of Many Tales
I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.

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The singers are miked only for the dialogue, but their excellent diction makes the supertitles unnecessary, bringing out mad rhymes like "You very imperfect ablutioner" for "The Lord High Executioner. Taking Gilbert
He relished it, often acting as judge, jury and executioner. The Sun
Armed drones act as judge and executioner, employing on-board systems designed by government contractors, equipt with detectors having access to electronic voting and computer trading data. Bubble Busting, Boom!
Led to the scaffold from a death row cell, he was prepped for the noose by a masked executioner.
Since he does the whole judge/jury/executioner thing, everybody's out to get him, ergo, he has to make himself as scarce as possible.
There are some of those most densely coloured of sea-birds, Mediterranean Gulls with their deep black cap and blood-red bill of executioners, puffing and rolling against allcomers. Observer's Books for ever
From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr. Emily Brontë
He took around with him on his rambles his vizier, Giafar (a vizier is a composite of a chauffeur, a secretary of state, and a night-and-day bank), and old Uncle Mesrour, his executioner, who toted a snickersnee. Roads of Destiny
Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.
The executioner who is called a headsman then walks forward approaching the chair from the rear. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
The five executioners, certified police officers who volunteered for the task and remain anonymous, stood about 25 feet away, behind a wall cut with a gunport, and were armed with matching. 30-caliber Winchester rifles. Ronnie Lee Gardner Executed By Firing Squad In Utah
Now, as the form team, they have escaped the noose and taken on the role of executioner. Times, Sunday Times
Now, as the form team, they have escaped the noose and taken on the role of executioner. Times, Sunday Times
As my eyes adjusted to the gloom I recognized Catulus, Piso, Torquatus, and Lepidus, with the folds of their togas pressed to their noses, and also the short and broad figure of the state executioner, the carnifex, in his leather apron, attended by half a dozen assistants. CONSPIRATA
The housemaids had been bribed with various fragments of riband, and sundry pairs of shoes more or less down at heel, to make no mention of crumbs in the beds; the airiest costumes had been worn on these festive occasions; and the daring Miss Ferdinand had even surprised the company with a sprightly solo on the comb – and – curlpaper, until suffocated in her own pillow by two flowing – haired executioners. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
None saw his executioners spend several minutes hunting for a vein to administer the lethal drugs.
Reading Ray's letters calls to mind such ego-deformed drifters as Don DeLillo's Lee Harvey Oswald, in Libra, and Norman Mailer's Gary Gilmore, in The Executioner's Song. Lawyers and Lizard-Heads
Right now it looks like Severian is on his way to get a job in Thrax (a city far away from Nessus) as it's carnifex (executioner). Shadow & Claw (1980, 1981) 410 pages by Gene Wolfe
There were interviews with executioners who described the process that was unfolding behind the prison walls.
On the track the team have again failed to conjure notable results, were tainted by Piquet Jr's attack on Briatore when he was axed - describing him as his "executioner" - and then hit the headlines again in Hungary when Alonso's tyre fell off, resulting in a one-race ban that was overturned on appeal. Planet F1 | Formula 1 News
[Page 205] not to go; adding, "The executioner is good enough for him. The Ruin of a Princess
One of their first victims was an aged nun of the Simiane family, canoness of the convent of Bollene, accused of being a counter-revolutionist; so lame and infirm, that her executioners were forced to carry her to the scaffold. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
It will also tell the story of Henry's brother Thomas, who was the longest serving of the Pierrepoint executioners and carried out around 300 hangings in 40 years.
The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges.
Rashe regarded a murderous allopathist as near akin to an executioner, and only bewailed the want of her minikin doses. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
The main character is a professional executioner, but he prefers to get drunk rather than perform his civic duties.
"Please, Lord High Executioner, I beg you don't do this. The Queen has never once confided her infidelities to me. I know nothing of this."
But remember those old newspaper clippings mentioning that he'd been hanged by the Home Office's principal Official Executioner?
Beheading, if somewhat gruesome, can be one of the quickest and least painful ways to die - so long as the executioner is skilled, his blade sharp, and the condemned sits still. Boing Boing
The executioners are armed with rifles carrying bayonets and they stand about two steps away from the condemned.
Set in the 16th century, it shows us the romantic life of a headsman, that is, the executioner who must chop people's heads off when they misbehave.
None saw his executioners spend several minutes hunting for a vein to administer the lethal drugs.
For a length of years, the office, as mentioned in the text, was held in commendam with that of the executioner; for when this odious but necessary officer of justice received his appointment, he petitioned the Court of Justiciary to be received as their Dempster, which was granted as a matter of course. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
She does not die as a victim, but having forgiven her executioners, she talks back at them and tries to show them their corruption, perversion and inhumanity.
There are even interviews with white riot policeman and executioners, but the power of the film belongs to the music, and ‘powerful’ is an understatement.
Some wretched slave-boy, a slight, delicate fellow, had been bound to the bars of a furca, and was being driven by two brutal executioners to the place of doom outside the gates. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
The anopheles mosquito, carrying the scourge of malaria, was the unwitting executioner of thousands of European soldiers sent to garrisons in the West Indies, Africa, or India.
Wherefore hath our mother the earth brought out poisons, saith [2764] Pliny, in so great a quantity, but that men in distress might make away themselves? which kings of old had ever in a readiness, ad incerta fortunae venenum sub custode promptum, Livy writes, and executioners always at hand. Anatomy of Melancholy
The so-called Executioner's Axe was really a woodman's axe on a long handle.
Few begin with their leading lady and two dancers cowled in black like executioners while an overture plays out. Janelle Monáe
He was a professional debt collector, brutal enforcer and sometimes executioner.
The Executive Branch arrogates the authority to become the investigator, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and then the executioner.
Why anyone would think that giving the state the power to be torturer in addition to being executioner is beyond me. Think Progress » Imbalance of Powers.
The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home.
As they leave, a white liquid giving off a gas slowly seeps from the left and we discover these men are executioners and this is a death chamber.
And so it was the ladder which symbolically decorated the executioner's tunic as a sinister badge of his trade.
When I read about all the so-called progressives lionizing someone who in a fit of juvenile irrationality assaults our president, I remember how Saddam's son Uday 'lionized' a young man back in 2000, according Saddam's executioner, by having the young man taken to the Uday Huessin's private zoo and put into the lion's cage. Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago
The U.S. military quickly announced that the executioner was al-Zarqawi himself, and although no one doubts that he planned the operation, questions soon arose: the figure seems taller than al-Zarqawi, and he uses his right hand to wield the knife. The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Tribunal in more than one part of his German dominions; and that, in consequence, instead of submitting to their doom with reverent resignation, children of the cord have been found bold enough to resist the executioners of the Vehme, striking, wounding, and even slaying those who have received commission to put them to death. Anne of Geierstein
I hate to admit it but I feel almost afraid, as if I'm waiting in a condemned cell for the arrival of an executioner.
It earned her the nickname Huda Al-Shannaga - Huda the executioner. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
No, reply'd Mecos, though thou deservest Death, yet I will not be thine Executioner, being a Wretch more wicked than thy self; and as Wolves and Serpents agree amongst themselves, it is but natural for thou and I to live in good Intelligence; therefore tell me whither thou would'st go, and I will conduct thee, or what other Exilius
The examination was short and private; 16 and as it was thought decent to conceal the fate of the young prince from the eyes of the Roman people, he was sent under a strong guard to Pola, in Istria, where, soon afterwards, he was put to death, either by the hand of the executioner, or by the more gentle operations of poison. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall.
He's a very engaging, open-faced, unlikely looking executioner, who connects with the barrio, like Art Aragon used to.
The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society.
We passed through the town, headed by a body of Ferashes, or footmen, carrying long rods, emblems of their office of executioners when the bastinado is inflicted. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
He had fulfilled his own executioner's role. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator.
He had one or two Latin texts continually in his mouth on the nothingness and vanity of human life; and, had it been regular to have enjoyed such a plurality, he might have held the office of confessor to the jail in commendam with that of executioner. Quentin Durward
For the betterment of all, they shouldered the burden of being the huntsmen and butchers, the judges and jailers, the hangmen and executioners, the grave-diggers and cere-clothiers. The Codex Continual » “Nine are the Candles”-An Excerpt
People think they're judge, jury and executioner. The Sun
Folly has now been followed up with the release of a second, stronger offering, Executioner, a 4.5 per cent dark beer, with a rich mahogany, almost reddish colour.
In the blur of combat, he goes from heroic marksman to summary executioner, at one point preparing to finish off a disarmed youth with a point-blank shot.
And here I will give away the ending: in order to save the man's life from the executioners who no longer need him to save humanity, the humans of the future come back through time to offer him asylum in their "pacified" world. Archive 2007-03-01
It had been difficult to find an executioner to carry out the sentence.
_Animadvertere_ is the proper expression for the infliction of bodily punishment by a lictor, who _has to pay attention to his orders_; but it is also used of the person who gives the order, and causes it to be carried into effect, just as _interficere_ is said both of the executioner and the person who orders a man to be put to death. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
However, appointing oneself judge and jury then acting as executioner is equally abhorrent. Santangelo story sweeps the Net
They'll get – whoever the executioner is – a soldier, a relative of someone who was killed in 9/11, and a frequent flyer. Diary
An executioner in the foreground quickens the fire with a pair of bellows, whilst another pours the boiling liquid over the Saint.
And Mary Queen of Scots made a series of ill-judged decisions which led her to the executioner's block in 1587.
One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale and burst into tears. The Pacha of Many Tales
Back in the bad old days, didn't condemned criminals sometimes have to pay the executioner's fee for chopping off their own heads?
I've got to be judge, jury and executioner. Times, Sunday Times
Cott in heaven! do you think I am a putcher, -- an executioner? My Novel — Complete
He (the slave) only knows his master as lawgiver and executioner, and the _sole object of punishment_ held up to his view, is to make him _a more obedient and profitable slave_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Nevertheless, Thomas continued obstinate; and, at length declared, that if the dog was not shot immediately, he himself would be his executioner — This declaration opened the flood-gates of Tabby’s eloquence, which would have shamed the first-rate oratress of Billingsgate. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
But the killing fails to meet the standard of a crime even now, because her executioners believed they were dispatching an enemy agent, and the integrity of that belief cannot be invalidated retrospectively.
He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way, despite Gomez's future role as his executioner.
She maun gang down the Bow wi’ the lad in the pioted coat63 at her heels. — 63 The executioner, in livery of black or dark grey and silver, likened by low wit to a magpie. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Near them are statues of the three executioners Bao employed to put different ranks of criminals to death.
You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator.
The jailer was the gate, the prison cell, the executioner and sometimes, if you were lucky, your friend. Five days inside a Taliban jail
The office of Doomster was in those days, and till a much later period, held by the executioner in commendam, with his ordinary functions. Old Mortality
In the antiseptic environment of an obstetric theatre, I witnessed this spectacle with the detachment of a duty-conscious executioner.
Sulkily enough the executioners unbound the heavy furca. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
A pendant figure, the executioner, kneels to sharpen the blade that will peel the satyr's skin from his body.
He also aspired to the role of executioner, warning McLoughlin that if he was not gone in three months he would requisition a shareholders’ meeting to remove him ‘unceremoniously’.
The masked executioner slipped the noose around Shadow's neck and slowly adjusted it to fit.
The 24-year-old, who has never disguised his disgust for Briatore - not since his sacking in early August when he described the former Renault team principal as his 'executioner' - again on Monday pulled no punches. Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
A good executioner could draw a garotting out for an hour, sometimes relaxing the pressure of the thread to give the victim false hope, before finally turning the screw and breaking the neck as the doomed man's head snapped backwards. Sharpe's Honour
The executioner cut off his head at one blow.
To keep order and discipline, the Efik depended on the agents and executioners of the Egbo. The Serpent and the Rainbow
The military will act as interrogators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners.
But, leaving aside the morality of playing judge, jury and executioner in my own private war crimes proceedings, what good would it have done?
These guys are judge, jury and executioner. Times, Sunday Times
The argument that it's unconstitutional for Congress to be judge, jury and executioner is a case of logical contortion to divert the subject over to that premise and away from the fact that Congress funds what it funds and doesn't fund what it doesn't fund. ACORN files lawsuit over loss of federal funding
When riddance by bullet emerges as the most expeditious way to dispose of her husband's victims, she is eventually even prodded into becoming Clint's executioner.
Would he, too, have judged him with that eugenic executioner's bluntness? DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
We passed the porters with their handcarts waiting for work just beyond the gate, and the squat official residence of the carnifex, who, as public executioner, was forbidden to live within the precincts of the city. CONSPIRATA
I wore my leather vest with a chain, my cheap-ass "executioner" mask, carried an axe and chained the flogger to my arm so it hung right at hand level, and went as a torturer. Snow Queen
Enid2s husband was supposed to be a Brightblade, not some outlander tricked up like a jackleg executioner. Virginity
It would neither distress the condemned person, nor the executioner on the other side as he pulled the trigger.
But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order.
The clothes of those that are executed are the executioner's fee: four soldiers were employed in crucifying Christ, and they must each of them have a share: his upper garment, if it were divided, would be of no use to any of them, and therefore they agreed to cast lots for it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
With a galactic reputation for being butchers, and ravenous executioners, the Rangers weren't known for leaving anyone alive after an operation.
It is the coda of the executioner, the knell of bloody doom.
Assuming Branaugh is as "immersed" in the comics as he claims, I figure the Warriors Three will be Thor's allies/comic relief for the film; Sif will be the love interest playing off of Enchantress; Loki will be the villain with the Executioner as his henchman and Balder will be a younger Asgardian looking up to Thor. Brian Blessed Cast as Odin in Thor | /Film
No person has a right to be judge, jury and executioner. Times, Sunday Times
Like his poem's busy plowman, the dog absorbed by doggy life, the executioner's itchy horse, like the pretty ship with somewhere else to go, we too seldom attend to -- too seldom partake in -- the failing and the suffering of our various members, and we therefore fail to realize the fullness, the reality, the appalling mystery of life as One Body. Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation
He has repeatedly appealed to his supporters and voters not to offer any resistance and to continue to trust the state, its executioners and its prison wardens.
In the middle of the place, right before the king, stands one of the king's sheriffs or judges, together with the chief executioner, who is attended by forty executioners, distinguished from all others by a peculiar kind of quilted caps on their heads, some with hatchets on their shoulders, and others with all sorts of whips, ready to execute the king's commands. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death.
The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. Les Miserables
“I will, my lord,” answered the executioner, “on condition that, if this must be in the way of dungeon execution, which I call cellar practice, my privilege to claim nobility shall be saved and reserved to me, and the execution shall be declared to be as effectual to my claim, as it might have been if the blow had been dealt in broad daylight, with my honorable blade of office.” Anne of Geierstein
The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder.
He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself.
A bribable executioner, now that I think about it . . . Star Trek The Next Generation®
Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner.
The occupation of sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror and handed over to the executioner.

How To Use Executioner In A Sentence

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