Executioner in example sentence

Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that--for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head.

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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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