So intent were they on the death of Jesus, that they could not leave the work to the proper parties, but followed the executioners and superintended their operations.
Executioners refuse to perform their functions, so that in Russia the death penalty cannot be carried out for want of executioners.
A bench was brought as well as the rods, and then the executioners were summoned (the latter had been selected beforehand from some horsestealers of the same village, as the soldiers refused the office).
If I should have to suffer from the change, I should be consoled by thinking that the executioners of that day were the victims of the previous time, and the hope of something better would help us to endure the worst.
The despairing shrieks of the two women whom the executioners had seized to drag forth to the place of death were completely drowned in the great chorus of bonga that arose by reason of this act of mercy on the part of the King.
In truth, thou speakest only just in time to save thy head from a far harder knock, umfane, for the knobsticks of the King's executioners come down hard upon the skulls of rebellious soldiers who disobey and insult their commanders.
The knobsticks of the King's executioners come down hard upon the skulls of rebellious soldiers, O Gungana, induna of the King,' I mocked.
I would suffer your royal indignation, and, if necessary, deliver my body to the executioners that they might cut it in pieces.
His executioners had put the noose round the gorget of his helmet.
We have escaped the executioners who were on our track, and here we are at the feet of the most powerful monarch in the Christian world, asking of him to baptise us!
On this the executioners took pity on them and let them go, but condemned them to be the lowest of the low, and wear no other covering but leaves.
Yet this equality before the tribunals and executioners of the Emperors and Pro-Consuls of Rome, never availed to diminish the mutual hatred subsisting between them.
The Jews on this occasion, by authority from the king, were made executioners of the public justice, for punishing by death a crime worthy of death, viz.
Both death and the devil shall be the executioners of his justice against his enemies: as they were heretofore against the Egyptians and Chanaanites.
The executioners shook him roughly, but Freyer did not stir--he ought not to move yet.
Then one of the executioners brought a crown made of huge thorns; He was raised again and the martyr's diadem was placed upon His brow.
The executioners had completed the binding of the thieves.
In a grim and silent rank before Beelzebub's feet, stood some six or eight priest-executioners bending their black-robed bodies against the strong wind which swept that ghastly pinnacle.
Again Nelson's pistol spat, and two of theexecutioners collapsed in kicking agony.
The instruments of torture were ready; I was stripped, and theexecutioners put themselves to their work.
This revolution makes exploded wit Now see the fall of those that ruin'd it; And the condemned stage hath now obtain'd To see her executioners arraign'd.
In those of them which treat of the Revolution we observe, as in the corresponding poems by Lamartine, that two words occur more frequently than any others--executioners and victims.
Jan Bockelson, Bernardin Knipperdolling, and Bernard Krechting were reserved to suffer the most terrible tortures that the diabolical ingenuity of mediaeval executioners could devise.
A brutal man, accompanying Us on horseback, snatched off Our hat, whilst We were being hurried along by a troop of executioners and officials.
Indeed, had not the executioners leapt upon me, I would have trampled the life out of him where he lay.
They fell into the big pit in the passage, and we put the cover on to keep them there; but when the executioners went to look for them they had all disappeared from the pit and we could find no trace of them.
Pang and the executionersalso went away, in another direction, but when they came back Betsy Bobbin was not with them, nor was Hank.
The Queen, in a state of nudity, was given over to lust of the brutal soldiery, after which, executioners armed with whips, tore her in pieces.
The executioners goaded on the tiger until it at last devoured its prey.
The wretched family knelt at the feet of the official, who, enraged at not being able to find a new victim, ordered the executioners to redouble their blows.
She was delivered to her merciless executioners who seeing her faint under the punishment; only administered one half of what had been ordered.
The irritation caused by insects eating their flesh and sucking their blood caused new torments, and they were surrounded by armed executioners ready to put an end to their existence.
If there are several criminals, there are several executioners who on a given signal decapitate their victims simultaneously.
He caused them to be put into velvet bags and handed them over to the executioners who beat them to death with clubs of sandalwood.
He ordered two executioners to come forward and at a signal, they struck her on the arms without regard for the weakness of her sex.
Several virgins declared they were married women and by this harmless fib they were enabled to avoid the brutish embraces of the men whom they considered as executioners rather than as lovers.
Down the long Court I was marched, only now guards, who had been called in, went in front of and behind me, and with them the four executioners by whom I was surrounded.
Into this place I was brought, guarded by four negroes, great fellows armed with swords whom I knew to be chosen out of the number of the executioners of the palace and the city.
Yet how could I clap my hands in their Eastern fashion and summon theexecutioners to pierce those streaming eyes of hers?
When the executionerscame and led her off, she took the pile of shirts in her arms.
To resist would have been useless; and yet it cost him a hard struggle to submit to the indignities to which he was subjected by the brutal executioners ordered to carry out the Inquisitor's sentence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "executioners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
