headsman
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headsmen
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The plays, adapted by Mike Poulton from the novels “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” end before Cromwell’s date with the headsman, a scene Ms. Mantel will tackle in a third novel.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2015
As Grover Cleveland's First Assistant Postmaster General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile Miss Sale-Barker, searching for water, had encountered a Masai headsman, sent him to Nairobi with a note written with lipstick.
From Time Magazine Archive
The headsman, he prescribed, must always wear impeccable evening dress.
From Time Magazine Archive
"King Robert has a headsman," he said, uncertainly.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton headsmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is one to make of these clowns and fish and blind Oedipuses, caged women and mutilated statues, tarty cigarette girls and Greek headsmen?
From Time Magazine Archive
Stygg was hardly the most expert of headsmen, and Benfred had a neck thick as a boar's, heavy with muscle and fat.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Breakfast finished, the leader divided among his headsmen the goods stolen from his victims and called his men to Sunday prayers.
From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas
At the time of the great Egyptian sickness the headsmen were the gravediggers.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
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