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

It chanced at one time that the office of public executioner was vacant.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir

In Denmark his book was burned by the public executioner.

From Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

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

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)