12 collocations for guillotine

It is a circumstance worth noting, that most of the Deputies who explained the motives on which they thought Carrier guilty, were silent on the subject of his drowning, shooting, and guillotining so many thousands of innocent people, and only declared him guilty, as having been wanting in respect towards Trehouard, one of his colleagues, and of injuring the republican cause by his atrocities.

What a seducing prospect for the assertors of liberty, to have the power of imprisoning and guillotining all their countrymen!

The municipality of Paris, &c. to the number of seventy-two, were guillotined the succeeding day, and about twelve more the day after.

One Sylvan Marechal, author of a work he calls philosophie, has written a sort of farce, which has been performed very generally, where all the Kings in Europe are brought together as so many monsters; and when the King of France is enquired after as not being among them, a Frenchman answers,"Oh, he is not herewe have guillotined himwe have cut off his head according to law.

This decision was at first strongly reprobated by the Moderates; but as it was proved, in the course of the debate, that Maignet was authorized, by an express decree of the Convention, to burn Bedouin, and guillotine its inhabitants, all parties soon agreed to consign the whole to oblivion.

It was Tallien's boast to have guillotined only aristocrats, and of this part of his merit I am willing to leave him in possession.

They put the murderer to death by making him sit on a bayonet; that's their way, down there, of guillotining a man.

For this crime of being an honest man they had guillotined Charlet, guillotined Cuisinier, guillotined Cirasse.

For this crime of being an honest man they had guillotined Charlet, guillotined Cuisinier, guillotined Cirasse.

I knew only that the French had thrown off the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV. and XV., had put the King and Queen to death, guillotined many persons, one of whom was Lavoisier, and had ultimately fallen under the despotism of Bonaparte.

For this crime of being an honest man they had guillotined Charlet, guillotined Cuisinier, guillotined Cirasse.

You might guillotine Lantenac with exquisite satisfaction, and yet he does not make us ashamed of mankind.

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