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Significados de headsman em inglês

An executioner who beheads the condemned person.

Uso de headsman em inglês
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She was determined to maintain her dignity right to the headsman's block.
Knife of dreams
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Meanwhile the headsman could be heard singing within his room the hymn:
The Day of Wrath
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At night the headsman's apprentices sleep on the floor of the loft.
The Day of Wrath
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Upon this was a block, and by the side stood a headsman.
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
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We get to the headsman though I have hardly noticed the walk.
The King’s Curse
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One of those who had brought him thither was the headsman's apprentice.
The Day of Wrath
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An angel proclaiming remission of sins in the house of the headsman!
The Day of Wrath
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The headsman's 'prentice with twitching features gazed fixedly at the interrogated wretch.
The Day of Wrath
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The unknown smiled so sympathetically at the childish simile of the old headsman.
The Day of Wrath
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The prisons were filling up; the headsman's arm was growing weary.
Roma eterna
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Those who survive the Seekers for Truth meet the axe of the headsman.
The great hunt
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Before the end of the week you'd be staring at the headsman's axe.
Roma eterna
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A burglar shoots a policeman dead and the public headsman decapitates a criminal.
Morality as a Religion / An exposition of some first principles
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Near her, exhausted also, sank down the headsman, bathed in sweat.
Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel
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Just before he was executed he asked the headsman what his name was.
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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The headsman's wife regarded the stranger with eyes full of doubt and astonishment.
The Day of Wrath
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