death-warrants

“Citizen Bontems was signing death-warrants at a time when my uncle was doing France good service.”

A Second Home 2007

“Citizen Bontems was signing death-warrants at a time when my uncle was doing France good service.”

A Second Home 2007

The nominal approval of measures initiated by the Resident and agreed to in council, and the signing of death-warrants, are among the few prerogatives which

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

He proceeded to affix his signature, continuing with a sort of deadly composure: "I have endorsed and executed many death-warrants in my time -- in my capacity of Deputy-Sheriff -- I little thought that some day I might be called upon to sign my own ... which this document virtually is ...."

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

Robespierre was a coward, who signed death-warrants with a hand that shook, though his heart was relentless.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

Robespierre was a coward, who signed death-warrants with a hand that shook, though his heart was relentless.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) Various

Jackson met, therefore, with little or no opposition in this region, and the Southwestern politicians who had fought for Adams and Clay in the campaign of 1828 had signed their political death-warrants.

Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd

He was the same moral monster at eighteen, when he succeeded to his sordid, selfish father, that he was at fifty-six, when he, a dying man, employed the feeble remnants of his once Herculean strength to stamp the death-warrants of innocent men.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Nalboon cannot understand the power, but he solved the means of liberating it at a glance -- and that glance sealed your death-warrants.

The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922

Susy's sister, Clara, took the part of Lady Jane Gray, while little Jean, aged four, in the part of a court official, sat at a small table and constantly signed state papers and death-warrants.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916