Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman 70 hath no lean wardrobe.
Answer was made, Here are none; away they directed the hangman in my boat; going into the boat he gave one of the soldiers a half-crown.
I directed my speech to him, saying, Are you the hangman that cut off the King's head?
Hulet then called a Sheriff's Officer, who said that he had been told by one of his fellow-officers that he was in Rosemary Lane a little while after the execution of the King, drinking with the hangman [i.
It was ghastly to see the hangman so intent upon his prey.
Furthermore, the doctrine of the innocence of all opinions appears to him to be as certain as the doctrine of the innocence of all actions: how could he act as judge andhangman before the apostate of intellectual liberty!
And she answered: "Do not ask me that, sire, but ask Christian Hantz what is in the packet which he kissed as the hangman took hold of him.
Those who were near him saw that there was a smile on his lips, and, as the hangman took hold of him, he kissed a little packet which he held in his right hand.
But she went again to Christian, and bade the hangman take the rope off his neck.
The hangmandanced on the corpse----Stone sweating blood nine months, broken this night.
I feel a sore itch of rope on my neck; but may it not be the hangman that will scratch me for it.
If he were tied to the cart's tail, the crowd pressed round him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make him howl.
An' you take dat, you hangman tief," cried the other with equal earnestness.
The imperial hangman Schrotembach, ordered her to leave Vienna in two days.
It was only a cowardly love of life that hindered me from running my sword through the body of the Statthalter, who had treated me as if he were a hangman and not a judge.
And round your neck the wythe or halter twine, And be the office of the hangman mine.
If through the wild woods he extended his reign, And death and the hangman were both in his train, Cornwallis no longer disturbs your repose, His lordship is dead or at least in a doze.
Fees and costs will have their cravings; and from the process-server to the Hangman all will have their due.
The book itself was to be burnt by the Common Hangman in the New Palace at Westminster, and upon the Exchange.
If 'twere made Comparatiue for your Vertues, to be stil'd The vnder Hangman of his Kingdome; and hated For being prefer'd so well Clot.
They set him high upon a cart-- The hangman rode below-- They drew his hands behind his back, And bared his lordly brow.
He kept thehangman at his trade, for plant-cutting still continued.
Fowle was arrested, and the common hangman was directed to burn the pamphlet in King Street.
When he was taken off the sledge, the hangman desired him to forgive him.
In these days of ultra-philanthropy, thehangman scarcely finds salt to his porridge, or porridge to salt.
So long as the Inquisition afforded constant work for able hands, a good hangman out of place must have been a treasure!
A few reigns later, and the hangman of the French metropolis (who shares with its diocesan the honour of being styled "Monsieur de Paris") was respected as the most accomplished in Europe.
Mr. Topcliffe was very angry at this speech, and hardly gave him time to say an "Our Father" before he ordered the hangman to turn the ladder.
Scarcely or not at all stunned, Mr. Genings stood on his feet with his eyes raised to heaven, till the hangman threw him down on the block where he was to be quartered.
They therefore resolved to defraud the hangmanof his share in the work, and suspended the youth, yet living, above the roaring flames.
The hangman was instructed to pierce their tongue with a hot iron, or to cut it out altogether; just as, at a later date, the sound of the drum was employed to drown the last utterances of the victims of despotism.
A short time after "shee made good the Deuil's worde, and to preuent the Iustice of the Law, and to saue the hangman a labour, cut her owne throate.
The hangman knew where the knot lay; and cut it to the perfect satisfaction of all the country.
As to thy darling stablegroom here, the master must set his mark on him before he goes; but that can be done when the hangman returns from Stettin.
And even the honourable councillors waxed merry at the sight; and as the hangmanpushed him from the ladder, they cried out, "So will the Stargardians do to Stramehl!
But as she denied everything, Zabel Bucher, the sheriff, ordered the hangman to be sent for, to see what the rack might do in eliciting the truth.
The hangman came to the Hall regularly for his Christmas Box and gave a receipt for the same, sometimes affixing the title “Executioner” after his signature.
Paid the Hangman for his Christmas Box 0 2 6 Similar entries to the above occur for many years.
The hangman appears to have been entitled to the dead man’s clothes, for on more than one occasion the Company gave him compensation for them, they having been torn to pieces in the brutal struggle for possession.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hangman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
