lethal chamber
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lethal chamber
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could they accompany him to the lethal chamber, if it were an ordinary working-day, with every moment of the time mapped out for them?
From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
By the invention of the lethal chamber I have had the delightful privilege of removing the taste and pain of death from probably a million of those friends of man, the faithful dogs.
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
I date from that hour Miss Goucher's abandonment of her predilection for the lethal chamber; at least, she never spoke of it again.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd
Not mad enough for the lethal chamber: not sane enough for any place but the division lobby.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
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