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  • If you have human hearts in you, you will see in them, it seems to me, an explanation of many a guillotinade and fusillade, as yet explained only on the ground of madness -- an hypothesis which (as we do not yet in the least understand what madness is) is no explanation at all.

    The Ancien Regime Charles Kingsley 1847

  • It is not easy to give a notion of his conduct in the Convention, without using those emphatic terms, guillotinade, noyade, fusillade, mitraillade.

    Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

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