hangman
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
For the sailor and the hangman, it had been indispensable in the past, the narrator declared.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
Actually it was a little bit like a stick figure, like in hangman, but with more details.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
However, India is known for its bureaucratic delays, and if the country lacks hangmen, it does not lack rules and protocols governing hanging.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
Monsieur de Beaulieu entered and at once dispelled the cordial smile of Coconnas by one of those icy looks which belong to governors of fortresses, to jailers, and to hangmen.
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
