hangman

• It was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber, who, attired in a white coat and smoking a cigarette, leaned nonchalantly against the first chair. —  Bernice Bobs Her Hair
• They have one common honour with the hangman, that is to saye, to kill menne and to be recompensed therefore. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
• Nought will daunt those lads till the hangman is at their throats For it was a real hurrah that reached his ears. —  The Armourer's Prentices
• [247] In the Central Provinces the hangman was accompanied by four or five other sweepers of the caste panchayat the idea being perhaps that his act should be condoned by their presence and approval and he should escape guilt. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
• Tarleton had laid me by the heels to wait for the hangman, and I would have passed the word about the Indian-arming on to you. —  The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

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