Significados de public executioner en inglés

The door opened, and Sanson, the public executioner, came in.

Then the fashion passed away; for no one cared to pass for the public executioner.

It was Samson, the public executioner, who entered!

He was the people's hero-thepublic executioner.

The public executioner, that is to say?

Tradition has it that for three days the public executioner stood ankle-deep in the blood of the condemned.

I will refrain from placing you in the hands of the public executioner, though you richly deserve it.

Whoever shall be found having done otherwise shall straightway lose his head by the hand of the public executioner.

A public executioner of peasants!

Then tax collectors followed with the public executioner, the noose and various ingenious instruments of torture to extract cash payments.

Kotoshikin terminated a life of strange vicissitudes by perishing at the hands of the public executioner at Stockholm, about 1669.

It is very old, and it was long in use; it was the knife used by the public executioner in Bhotan.

The dignity attached to the military profession, and the indignity of the office of public executioner, are capricious, arbitrary, and sentimental.

Approaching Orenbourg, we saw a crowd of convicts, with shaved heads and faces disfigured by the pincers of the public executioner.

Buonaparte is but the minister of the Divine vengeance, the public executioner now employed to execute the sentence of God upon criminal men.

Is there any sentiment of equity that would prompt us to suppress the fact, that he died by the public executioner of Athens?