How To Use Headsman In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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The coward and the tyrant call the headsman at any provocation, and fall to him the same, Inaglione had written.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
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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
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[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
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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
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'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
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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
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The mate, who acted as boat-steerer, now came to his proper place in the stern, where he guided the boat by an oar passed through a ring called a grummet, while the headsman, who had before been steering, took his place in the bow, armed with several lances, ready to plunge into the body of the whale the instant it again appeared.
The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific
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The "headsman," taking the part of conductor, pushes behind.
The Mines and its Wonders
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It was let down to the ground, and there came the "headsman," whose task it was to sever the head, with two or three swift strokes.
The Jungle
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Monmouth himself was captured, and executed by a headsman who botched his job.
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Mounting a stage before a roaring fire, she spent her last moments in great dignity, only to die at the hands of an incompetent headsman who missed her neck with his first stroke.
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The speed with which he cleared the service of Democrats earned him the title "headsman" and is indicated by the estimate that he removed one every three minutes for the first year.
The United States Since the Civil War
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Gobseck is a banker, just as the headsman is a doctor.
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
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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.
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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
