guillotine

• We have been told of certain brokers in Wall-street who import even their desserts from Paris; not their deserts_, my friend, for the guillotine is the only French thing which we don't imitate or import. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
• An excellent illustration of the use of the guillotine is afforded by the history of the passage of the National Insurance Bill of 1911. —  The Governments of Europe
• The gaping planks of the guillotine are imbued with their last traces. —  The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
• Although he knew well that neither his long services, nor the efforts that he had made, would save him from the fury of the Convention; he returned to Paris where, after the mockery of a trial, he was sent to the guillotine--a fate which awaited all those who failed, in the face of impossibilities, to carry out the plans of the mob leaders. —  No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
• At Nantes, for instance, the guillotine is too slow; and hundreds of men, women, and children are put into boats, which are sunk in the middle of the river. —  No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee

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