Executioner in example sentence

He believed they were come to conduct him to the scaffold; so that when he saw merely and simply, instead of the executioner he expected, only his commissary of the preceding evening, attended by his clerk, he was ready to embrace them both.

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There's the image of the hoodie connected to the executioner.

In "Measure for Measure," it's the call time for the executioner.

Weidmann was due to be executed at the crack of dawn, as was customary at the time, but his executioner was new to the job, and he'd underestimated how long it would take him to prepare.

The wait could have been a minute, the executioner could have come the next minute, the next day, or it could have taken 30 years.

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