How To Use headsman In A Sentence
- According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
- Merris, there is no escaping justice for you. Whether or not you are guilty of the crimes Withers spoke of, I have seen enough evil here to condemn you to the headsman . And I will see justice done.
- That is, instead of the sailors being divided at night into two bands, alternately on deck every four hours, there were four watches, each composed of a boat's crew, the "headsman" (always one of the mates) excepted. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
- The coward and the tyrant call the headsman at any provocation, and fall to him the same, Inaglione had written. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
- A whale-boat, when going in chase, has a crew of six men: one is called the headsman, the other the boat-steerer. Old Jack
- [581] He [582] lay that night under the tree in all ease; but he whose head is in the headsman's hand sleepeth not anights. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
- Kafka learned Kleist’s lesson about the anxiety created by intricate hypotaxis and the suspense of waiting for the verb to drop like the headsman’s ax at the end of a long and harrowing sentence. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
- 'Henceforward you shall no longer be called the headsman, but the last of the judges.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
- Sovran bade summon the Headsman and committed to him the criminal bidding him take the youth and robe him in a black habit bepatched with flamecolour; [FN#121] then, to set him upon a camel and, after parading him through Cairo city and all the streets, to put him to death. Arabian nights. English