The veryexecutioner shrunk from beheading one so brave and illustrious, until the unintimidated knight encouraged him, saying: "What dost thou fear?
At the foot of the scaffold, a further and parting insult was reserved for him: the executionerbrought Dr.
When the executioner on the hill at Montmartre cut off his head the good saint picked it up and strolled across the fields with it tucked under his arm--so runs the tale.
The executioner kisses the citizen who has held his horse for him during his absence and departs; the whole district still hums with ill-suppressed excitement.
By their particular request their heads were not severally held up and exposed by the executioner with the usual formula--“This is the head of a traitor.
The executioner then gripped the crossbeam, and, placing his feet in the loop formed by the bound hands of the patient, by dint of repeated vigorous shocks terminated his sufferings.
You need not finish the other one; and now I declare you one of us, and name you executioner to the army.
If the execution of the insurgents of June and July had not been so hurried on, we should have held in our hands the clue to the conspiracy, which the axe of the executioner divided for ever.
If the griots or the griotes make any disturbance, I will hand them over to the executioner of the army.
The judges of the revolutionary commission were worn out with fatigue--the arm of the executioner was weary--the very steel of the guillotine was blunted.
Owing to the malformation of his lower limbs, it was difficult to fasten him to the moving plank of the guillotine; and the executioner was at last obliged to lay him on his side to receive the blow.
The nature of his previous wound, from which the cloth had never been removed till the executioner tore it off, added to the torture of the sufferer.
The executioner is doubtless guiltless of the blood he sheds, but it is not a right honourable trade.
The block, and the axe, and the masked executioner were nothing in De Blenau's eyes but the mere weak precursors of the one awful event on which all his thoughts were bent, and for which his mind was now fully prepared.
Baville's order was repeated, and the archer, no longer daring to interfere, allowed the executioner to approach.
Poul killed several with his own hand, among whom were two whose heads he cut off as cleverly as the most experienced executionercould have done, thanks to the marvellous temper of his Damascus blade.
All his limbs were then bound to the beams with cords at every joint; this accomplished, the assistant retired, and the executioner came forward.
But the two abbes were unmoved, and Castanet expired cursing, not the executioner but the two priests, whose presence during his death-agony disturbed his soul, turning it away from things which should have filled it.
On this bed of pain the sufferer was laid, so that the spectators might enjoy the sight of his dying convulsions when, the executioner having accomplished his part, the turn of death arrived.
The king ordered the executioner to bring the heads, which, on examination, proved to be those of the minister's son and of the foster-sister.
The executioner humbled himself to the ground, as a sign of his accepting the order, and retired to sharpen his knife for his terrible duty.
The row of noblemen divides and the Executioner appears; he is dressed in red and black, and on his shoulder bears a long sword in its scabbard.
Sir Bailiff, what is the name of the executioner of the Tower of London?
The gaoler laughed behind the prisoner's back; he had done better than the executioner for once!
One night the door opened, and Janosics appeared with three men, one of whom bore a brazier of burning coals, another a pair of pincers, and in the third he recognised the public executioner of Pesth.
They tore his clothes from him, but the sight of the prisoner's haggard face and emaciated figure smote the heart even of the executioner with a sudden pity.
The iron door was thrown open, and a whole crowd burst into his cell, the magistrate and the lieutenant among them, whilst following them, came a man he took to be the public executioner of Pesth.
The executioner has been told to hold himself in readiness for to-morrow.
The man who looked like the executioner began to undress and roll up his shirt-sleeves.
Aurungzeb caused Prince Dara to be publicly paraded through the streets of Delhi with his little seven-year-old grandson by his side, while the executioner stood ominously behind him.
In his case the decree of the court was carried out in the old-fashioned way: he was led to the prison gate with a halter round his neck, where the executioner gave him a loaf of bread and a kick and bade him begone forever.
I don't want your pretty head to go rolling down into the basket, and to receive the slap on the face which the citizen executioner has of late taken to bestowing on those aristocratic cheeks which Mme.
But the moment the doctor's work was done, that of the executioner would commence.
Monte-Leone, with the same tone in which he would have asked the executioner to strike him with certainty.
The most honest merely pray that his imprisonment may be prolonged; the least delicate pray that the executioner may send them a receipt.
The Castle Del Uovo, dungeons beneath the sea, the executioner and conversations with the Grand-Judge, warn me to be careful and prudent.
I was silent under all these threats and demonstrations, merely observing that, having such a noble executioner as Hadjee Khan, I was content to die, and I hoped the office would remain in his family.
I might, in short, have forgiven every attempt you have made to take away a life you once saved; and with having pardoned you, I have even recompensed you, as a king does not recompense the executioner of his justice.
If I yielded to illusions, it is no fault of yours--who can expect a nature so delicately strung as yours to make an executioner of the heart of her best friend?
He was attainted by the parliament which sat in the autumn, and lay under sentence of death when death came unbidden to spare the executioner his labour.
It was for the benefit, he said, of the executioner who was to do him so great a service.
She then knelt, and breathing faintly a commendation of her soul to Christ, theexecutioner with a single blow struck off her head.
But now the executioner approached, holding a pair of large glistening shears.
As the handcuffs clicked around those delicate wrists, the executioner looked up in amazement.
The executioner gave him the broom, the baton of his disgrace, and he grasped its handle for support.
No, my father, I shall die before the executioner has time to strike his second blow.
I ask you again," said he, stamping his foot with fury, "why do you not let the axe of your executioner fall upon my neck?
He would fain have undressed himself alone, but his trembling hands refused to do the work, and he was obliged to let the executioner help him.
In this he suffered the executioner to help him, for he was afraid he might not roll it up sufficiently.
The executioner struck again, and this time with deadly effect; but even then it was not a clean blow, and a part of the neck had to be severed.
When his coat and waistcoat had been taken off, he produced a handkerchief to bind his eyes; but the executioner assured him that it would not be necessary, and took it away.
