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

The Lettres Philosophiques sur les Anglais, which followed, were condemned by the Parliament to be burnt by the public executioner.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

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

The dignity attached to the military profession, and the indignity of the office of public executioner, are capricious, arbitrary, and sentimental.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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