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Meanings of public executioner in anglès

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An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant.

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        1
        The door opened, and Sanson, the public executioner, came in.
        The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series
        2
        Then the fashion passed away; for no one cared to pass for the public executioner.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
        3
        It was Samson, the public executioner, who entered!
        Marie Antoinette and Her Son
        4
        He was the people's hero-thepublic executioner.
        The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
        5
        The public executioner, that is to say?
        Three Dramas
        6
        Tradition has it that for three days the public executioner stood ankle-deep in the blood of the condemned.
        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbaro...
        7
        I will refrain from placing you in the hands of the public executioner, though you richly deserve it.
        Captain Fracasse
        8
        Whoever shall be found having done otherwise shall straightway lose his head by the hand of the public executioner.
        A Double Story
        9
        A public executioner of peasants!
        Ten Days That Shook the World
        10
        Then tax collectors followed with the public executioner, the noose and various ingenious instruments of torture to extract cash payments.
        Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
        11
        Kotoshikin terminated a life of strange vicissitudes by perishing at the hands of the public executioner at Stockholm, about 1669.
        Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers
        12
        It is very old, and it was long in use; it was the knife used by the public executioner in Bhotan.
        The Gypsies
        13
        The dignity attached to the military profession, and the indignity of the office of public executioner, are capricious, arbitrary, and sentimental.
        Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
        14
        Approaching Orenbourg, we saw a crowd of convicts, with shaved heads and faces disfigured by the pincers of the public executioner.
        Marie; a story of Russian love
        15
        Buonaparte is but the minister of the Divine vengeance, the public executioner now employed to execute the sentence of God upon criminal men.
        The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary
        16
        Is there any sentiment of equity that would prompt us to suppress the fact, that he died by the public executioner of Athens?
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 184...
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