public executioner

Example Sentences

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And, he reminds the budding journalists, "you are not the judge, jury and public executioner."

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2016

Isidorus thought well to evade giving an account of his adventure in the Catacomb, and, to turn the conversation, asked how the Christians had obtained the body of Lucius from the public executioner.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

William Marwood—unlike his celebrated victim, he has his place in the Dictionary of National Biography—is perhaps the most remarkable of these persons who have held at different times the office of public executioner.

From A Book of Remarkable Criminals by Irving, Henry Brodribb

Early in life, while in Italy, he wrote a grave essay on Money, which contrasted with another of rare humor suggested by the death of the public executioner.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

In the year 1681, one Jean Rattier was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted on condition of accepting the post of public executioner.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon