43 Verbs to Use for the Word executioners

By their side stood the executioner.

the fancy-created deity, the wreath of fame, and all that poets have imagined to decorate the horrors of war, are not necessary to tempt the gross barbarity of the Parisian: he seeks not glory, but carnagehis incentive is the groans of defenceless victimshe inlists under the standard of the Guillotine, and acknowledges the executioner for his tutelary Mars.

A child eleven years old, who had previously told the executioner, with affecting simplicity, that he hoped he would not hurt him much, received three strokes of the Guillotine before his head was severed from his body.

The captain then took a blanket, spread it on the ground and told Boseley to kneel on it, and he did so, facing his executioners.

He was carried before the Sultan, who ordered the executioner to cut off his head.

Sometimes they acted as legislators, making laws on the spotsometimes, both as judges and constablesor, if occasion required, they amused themselves in assisting the executioner.

"The knife is broken," whispered the mock executioner in Frank's ear, "so it may accidentally fall and cut you.

When the mob was half a block from this place the "hot heads" made another attempt to cheat the state executioner.

Pilate immediately dispatched executioners to Calvary to carry out their wishes.

What else drove the executioner to kneel at every shrine for pardon to his share in the tragedy?

It was my pow'rfull arte produc'd those monsters To drowne those monstrous executioners That should have wrought your wracke.

Here, she knew, dwelt the executioner; and she tapped with her fingers at the window, and said, "Come out! come out!

There was no obscure or shadowy corner in which for a few moments he might elude his executioner.

Long and solid ladders riveted to the pillars enabled the executioner and his assistants to lead up criminals, or to carry up corpses destined to be hung there.

We fee the executioner, but we do not touch his bloody hand.

A single stare of Marius had put to flight the executioner.

We from one climate Drew suspiration: as thou then hast eyes To read my wrongs, so be thy head an Engine To raise up ponderous mischiefe to the height, And then thy hands the Executioners.

Another account says that he "betrayed no emotion, and even hurried the executioner in the performance of his duty."

In these cases the Cameronians imagined themselves the direct and inspired executioners of the vengeance of heaven.

Although forbidden to leave their ranks, these soldiers nevertheless did their utmost by laughter and applause to incite the cruel executioners to redouble their insults; and as public applause gives fresh energy to a comedian, so did their words of encouragement increase tenfold the cruelty of these men.

The blood shed served to infuriate more the barbarous executioners who in order to give the finishing stroke to the martyr, as an unrivalled expression of their savage ferocity, thrust a red-hot iron into his mouth and eyes.

The extirpation of the Canaanites is compared by divines to the execution of a criminal; and it is insisted, that if the voice of society may justify the executioner, much more may the voice of GodBut I now saw the analogy to be insufficient and unsound.

In front of the cortége marched the executioner, musicians, dancers, and abandoned women of the town.

Well, when a man has to meet his executioner on friendly terms, I suppose it is "pathetic" for one of them.

"[30] Be this as it may, the picture was in Venice, in the Casa Grimani di Santo Ermagora, in Ridolfi's day (1646), and that writer specially mentions the unfinished executioner.

43 Verbs to Use for the Word  executioners