“John Stretch is what they used to call the hangman, before we got civilized and started lopping off heads instead.”. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
And his hatred of the Emden's "hangman" is visible for a second in his blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
His, we fear, were 'hangman's hands,' and 'not ordained to build a temple unto peace.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When interest in that waned, he started a game of "hangman" (the elementary school game of guessing a word by guessing letters). From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Peter Morales: Handcuffs, Hangman and Jesus: Reflections on My Arrest at the SB 1070 Protests in Phoenix] Reference
Deputy-Governor of Jamaica instead of its hangman, which is the office for which he's by nature fitted. ". From Wordnik.com. [Captain Blood] Reference
I bade him, under the name of "hangman," and in the presence of the archers, give me an account of my money. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The very first thing I saw, of course, was 'hangman', and curiosity got the best of me, so of course I ran it. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
Nicholas arched his back and laughed like a maniac, and then, in the next minute, he sobbed fit to break a hangman’s heart. From Wordnik.com. [THE VOW] Reference
Immediately a kind of hangman's assistant sneaks up from behind and plunges a dagger into the neck of the bull, who expires on the spot. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
PUNCH sometimes destroys the hangman, and why not?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
University of Oxford, and burnt by the common hangman. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
He called meson, like a van Gogh in the arms of the hangman. From Wordnik.com. [The Hangman] Reference
Even a hangman, one supposes, has some sort of human feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
They will set up again the law courts and reinstate the hangman. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The hangman strung them up one at a time, starting just after dawn. From Wordnik.com. [A Message From Mubarak] Reference
Raimbaut to the hangman, when the peasant is saved by his bride Alice. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
But the red hangman and his machines were grim touches for a puppet-show. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
His hat was then pulled off by the hangman, and the procession commenced. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
"Away, from the hangman," shrieked Griffith, still staring at the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
I must push ahead and beg the hangman to let me have a cut or two at them. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
People talk of you here no better than they do of the deputy of the hangman. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
"An 'you take dat, you hangman tief," cried the other with equal earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
They'll figger I'm the hangman come out to git 'em -- fetchin 'my halter along!. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Crossing the Delaware] Reference
The words were obscure and the hangman had additional gender specific body parts. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Peter Morales: Handcuffs, Hangman and Jesus: Reflections on My Arrest at the SB 1070 Protests in Phoenix] Reference
Malice, greed and craft promptly supplied more victims for the court and the hangman. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
And they looked as though they were waiting for the hangman to give his verdict at a trial. From Wordnik.com. [Surrender At Sea] Reference
But now the hangman smokes, and the criminal condemned to death smokes before being hanged. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Occasionally, they're executed, as was Westley Dodd by a hangman in Walla Walla, Wash., last week. From Wordnik.com. [The Incorrigibles] Reference
The hangman would be busy for a month if all who merited his rope were dragged out of yonder dens. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Certain of File's old accomplices succeeded in bribing the hangman to shorten the time of suspension. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Robin from a formidable array of men-at-arms just as the hangman was about to string him up on the gallows. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
In the above examples I have confined myself to those books, &c. only which were expressly consigned to the flames by the hangman. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
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