headsmen
- plural of headsman.
Example Sentences
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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
In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton 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
There every vice and passion's whim Had seamed the flesh abundantly With hideous hieroglyphs and grim, That headsmen read with fluency.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes
