Spoken to the executioner at the guillotine, after she stepped on his foot. Monsieur, I beg your pardon. From LearnThat.org. [Marie Antoinette (1755-1793).]
So this interest in the guillotine is the centrifugal force, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [Faraway Voices] Reference
Wonder if that guillotine is a first in recent literary fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Littell Wins 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Award — Read All the Shortlisted Passages Here « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
(To the best of my knowledge, the guillotine is no longer being used.). From Wordnik.com. [And you thought the pimps had it rough | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Why bother with the Divine Right of Kings when the guillotine is handy?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » System-Building] Reference
The guillotine is about to drop on this administration, as soon as Fitzgerald is good and ready. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » A New Low For Operation Photo-Op] Reference
Revolution, when the guillotine was the king of France. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
It'd be better if the guy going to the guillotine was your boss. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
I always thought the guillotine was the quickest with no failures. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
This instrument, called after him, the guillotine, which is still used in. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the History of Western Europe] Reference
If one is going to have capital punishment, the guillotine is the way to go. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
So the guillotine was the center of gravity, and it drew out all these voices. From Wordnik.com. [Faraway Voices] Reference
This position of the "guillotine" shutter is absolutely false, and must be altogether discarded. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
She kept her head on her shoulders and easily spelled "guillotine" for the win. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
A rude kind of guillotine formerly used in Scotland. for shearing o 'craigs and thrapples. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
France’s "national razor" becomes known as a guillotine so that it rhymed with "machine.". From Wordnik.com. [You’re Too Kind] Reference
63 A rude kind of guillotine formerly used in Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Although ministers may seek to force the measure through the Lords by a series of "guillotine". From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
"guillotine" the remaining Supplementary Estimates in order to get them through before March 31st. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920] Reference
Almost no one is completely safe from the corporate guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [Our Great Economics Lesson] Reference
I took one and clipped off the end with the little handheld guillotine that Hampton offered. From Wordnik.com. [Macanudos On The Rocks] Reference
ELLIOTT: The tiny guillotine chops the pieces of cane into rectangles about two inches long. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
As I listen to it now, in pain, my face fixed in a wince, each minute hangs like a guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [Pieces of Lou, part 1] Reference
What would the papers have to write about, if princesses had been sent to the virtual guillotine?. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell To An Icon And An Era] Reference
Says Bruce Fein, a constitutional-law scholar, "This means Roe v. Wade is set for the guillotine.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Court] Reference
The stocks, the pillory, the gallows, the guillotine-all were meant to instill a fear of authority. From Wordnik.com. [Crime & Punishment] Reference
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