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

Well, I think he should myself, but I'm not the public executioner, and one can't fight a duel with a priest—" "Señor!

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

In Denmark his book was burned by the public executioner.

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

Is there any sentiment of equity that would prompt us to suppress the fact, that he died by the public executioner of Athens?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various