deathsman
Americannoun
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deathsmen
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Origin of deathsman
Example Sentences
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The deathsman sold me a black coat of mail, a beaked helmet and a dead spear .
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yet our solemn rites deceived us not; the prophet-shadows, dark with terror and red with blood, still foretold that, even in the dungeon, and before the deathsman, I,—I had the power to save them both!"
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Nearer and nearer press the populace,—another moment, and the deathsman is defrauded.
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
A little money, kept to give in alms, I have about me: deathsman, take it all; Thou art the last poor almsman I shall see.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
—A deathsman of the soul Robert Greene called him, Stephen said.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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