1
The warden, speaking as gruffly as before, asked him whether he would act as executioner.
2
He was ready to act as executioner.
3
No one but a member of one of the 'outcaste castes', if the 'bull' be allowable, will act as executioner.
4
An old white man, degraded by drink and other vices, was engaged to act as executioner, and was brought forty miles.
5
He soon delivered his captive brother and carried him off in triumph, after hanging the knight who had volunteered to act as executioner.
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The man who was to act as executioner was one Thorkel Leira, a stalwart warrior, who had done great deeds in the battle.
7
The brutal fellow who had been selected to act as herald, provoked by the reception he had met with, undertook to act as executioner.
8
Schemmer had also volunteered to act as executioner, and in that capacity he was now on the scaffold, experimenting with the instrument he had made.
9
The prisoners mounted the scaffold, being accompanied by three Vigilance Committee officers who acted as executioners and a Rev.
10
"Yes, yes, leave it to me; I will act as executioner."
11
She was marched to the pole and held in the same manner as the man; but another man acted as executioner.
12
Farnham, a clerk, a tall "Green Mountain boy" from Vermont, who had been robbed of a pistol, acted as executioner.