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“Under what other master,” replied the executioner,
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Behind them came the feeble old Committee member and the executioner,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999
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Forthwith they set up a gallows under which they made the Nazarene stand and the torch bearer, who was hangman, threw the rope round his neck and passed one end through the pulley, and was about to hoist him up [FN#509] when lo! the Reeve, who was passing by, saw the Broker about to be hanged; and, making his way through the people, cried out to the executioner,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And when his severed head and hands were mounted on the podium in the Colosseum and his executioner,
OpEdNews 2010
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The book, which has now been removed from bookshops in the city, also carries an interview with Singapore's former chief executioner,
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And when his severed head and hands were mounted on the podium in the Colosseum and his executioner,
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Truthdig Chris Hedges 2010
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But recollecting that this negro had accused himself as being gvulty and fancying that Be - tifsa's eagernefs to save him, was from her love toh. m, all L rage returned, he makes a sign to the executioner,
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"If no one else will," returned the bishop, "my Camyn executioner,
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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