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
At its head was a meagre villain, whom one might have taken for the public executioner.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
Boz, however, seems to have felt himself called upon to act thus as public executioner on two occasions only.
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
Sire," replied Crillon, "I beg your Majesty's pardon for reminding you, that there is a public executioner appointed by law, and I must not interfere with any other man's office.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
Often have I felt that I would rather grow cabbage, like Cincinnatus, than be the public executioner of usurpations, monopolies, and other abuses.
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
