executioner
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“Terror Fest doesn’t water itself down,” said The Executioner.
From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024
What do Santa Claus, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a certain Washington Post reviewer and the Lord High Executioner from “The Mikado” all have in common?
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021
Assorted ephemera on the walls of Peterson’s office includes the Executioner Wasp figure available for sale on the Brave Wilderness website.
From The Verge • Apr. 1, 2019
In 2015 he appeared as an “ambitious and deadly protege of a church elder” in multiple episodes of medieval drama The Bastard Executioner.
From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2017
The Executioner seemed to absorb all the light that struck it, like a shadow in the captain’s hand.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Vocabulary lists containing executioner
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