Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet HEADSMAN

Exempel på hur man kan använda HEADSMAN i en mening

• An executioner, also known as a hangman or headsman, is an official who effects a sentence of capital punishment on a condemned person.
• Asks Reich to Spare Citizen from Headsman"; New York Evening Journal, April 24, 1937: "Young Hirsch was sentenced to decapitation by the headsman's axe for, it was broadly hinted in legal circles, plotting against Reichsfuehrer Hitler.
• Manuelito and Barboncito reminded the Navajo that the US Army was sending troops to wage war, that it had flogged a Navajo messenger, and that it opened fire on tribal headsman “Agua Chiquito”, during talks for peace.
• Thus, we never really learn why the samurai's wife is murdered; and such scenes as the one in which the headsman compels his son to make a fateful choice between a sword and a pretty raffia ball go for nothing.
• The funeral march of the headsman begins a dialogue with the desperate Till, who tries to wheedle and joke his way out of this predicament.
• In fact, the executioner was forbidden to live on the left bank, and even to go there (Boia non passa Ponte, in English: "the headsman cannot cross the bridge", was a Roman proverb), but had to stay in the Leonine City.

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