The chief executioner was a tall and bony man, extremely ferocious.

This we found encumbered by the equipages and servants of the serdar and the chief executioner.

The body of the king's chief executioner was also pointed out by some of the prisoners.

One was from the chief executioner- anotoriousdrunkard-beggingpermission to take unlimited wine for his health's sake.

Which of you is the chief executioner?

He was there to observe, and to prepare for eventually succeeding his father as the nation's chief executioner.

Without a moment's delay the chief executioner cut off the thief's head, whence a blood-like liquid came forth.

We alighted at the first court, and I immediately inquired for the quarters of my master, the chief executioner.

The chief executioner himself shows a note of his, sealed with his seal, giving him permission to drink wine.

I am an attendant upon the chief executioner, with whom the mollah bashi, I believe, has some money transactions.'

The party who stood before the king consisted of the mollah bashi, the chief executioner, the Armenian, Nadân, and myself.

Others that he appeared the next morning at the chief executioner's, and rode away with one of his best horses.

I went to the chief executioner's house, presented the letter, and received the horse, upon which I rode hastily away to the village.

My chief executioner, taking, peradventure, a too professional view of the subject, deems it best to resort at once to crucifixion or impalement.

We at length reached the palace, and at the entrance found the grand vizier, seated with the mollah bashi, in the chief executioner's apartment.

The chief executioner was surrounded by a body of about five hundred cavalry, and the infantry was coming up as well as it could.