Significados de act as executioner em inglês

The warden, speaking as gruffly as before, asked him whether he would act as executioner.

He was ready to act as executioner.

No one but a member of one of the 'outcaste castes', if the 'bull' be allowable, will act as executioner.

An old white man, degraded by drink and other vices, was engaged to act as executioner, and was brought forty miles.

He soon delivered his captive brother and carried him off in triumph, after hanging the knight who had volunteered to act as executioner.

The man who was to act as executioner was one Thorkel Leira, a stalwart warrior, who had done great deeds in the battle.

The brutal fellow who had been selected to act as herald, provoked by the reception he had met with, undertook to act as executioner.

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.

The prisoners mounted the scaffold, being accompanied by three Vigilance Committee officers who acted as executioners and a Rev.

"Yes, yes, leave it to me; I will act as executioner."

She was marched to the pole and held in the same manner as the man; but another man acted as executioner.

Farnham, a clerk, a tall "Green Mountain boy" from Vermont, who had been robbed of a pistol, acted as executioner.