5 Words to use with guillotines

It is two weeks now since I wrote my name Ambrosine de Calincourt Athelstan for the last time, two weeks since I walked down the rose-strewn guillotine steps on Augustus's arm, two weeks since heAh, no!

Arrow-heads must be brought to a sharp point, and the guillotine-axe must have a slanting edge.

France to us was no longer the murderous land of the sans-culotte and the guillotine basket; it was rather the glorious queen of war, attacked by all and conquering all, but still so hard pressed that her scattered sons could hear her call to arms for ever sounding in their ears.

The entire neighbourhood is given up to the printer and binder; and even my patient turned out to be a guillotine-knife grindera ferocious and revolutionary calling strangely at variance with his harmless appearance and meek bearing.

There is one that seems a King, As if the ghost of a Crown Still shadowed his jail-bleached hair; I can hear the guillotine ring, As its regicide note rang there, When he laid his tired life down And grew brave in his last despair.

5 Words to use with  guillotines