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Meanings of own executioner in English

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Usage of own executioner in English
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She had been her own executioner; and this was not death-butlife!
Eleanor
2
Thus is it ever writhing under the sense of being its own executioner.
The Education of Catholic Girls
3
He worries me, he is his own executioner, my poor friend!
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03
4
Oh, pull no longer; why shouldst thou be thine own executioner?
The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
5
Thus Peter did not hesitate to be his own executioner.
The Story of Russia
6
God is good, and I am sure He would not have me become my own executioner.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
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They must remember him as his own executioner.
Destiny
8
You shall be your own executioner, and this miserable office shall pass away from my hands.
The Prairie
9
I was scouting my own executioner.
Fat vampire: a never coming of age story
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He is his own tormentor; he himself makes the wheel on which, like his own executioner, he binds himself.
The Secret of the Night
11
The inspector had gone too far to draw back, and, unwittingly, was now obliged to act as his own executioner.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
12
Alter a moment's hesitation he said grimly, Millie, it's rough on a fellow when he must be his own executioner.
Without a Home
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At Hope's appeal he was to risk Hope's peace forever; he was to make her sweet sisterly affection its own executioner.
Malbone: An Oldport Romance
14
Crassus the rich, father of Marcus, had committed himself against Marius, and had been allowed the privilege of being his own executioner.
Caesar: A Sketch
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She asked me again and again how I could be my own executioner; but I could not answer, for I did not know.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
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The intention was that the animal, in entering the enclosure, should become its own executioner-shouldcommit unintentional suicide, if we may so put it.
Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
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