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Executioners in sentence

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Before they die, they curse the next generations of their executioners.
Saddam's numerous secret police contain many clerks, executioners, and torturers, but not many trained soldiers.
Whatever else happens, the war will bring an all-out attack against the executioners and torturers of Iraq's peoples.
Who were the administrators, guards, and executioners?
But empires have crumbled; tyrants have passed away; and their executioners have fallen into the dustbins of history.
The Children’s RevolutionLONDON – Two tragic and haunting images have emerged this year: hooded Islamic State executioners holding their knives to the necks of innocent victims, and masked medical workers bravely fighting an uphill battle against an Ebola outbreak for which the world was not prepared.
The Algerian-born French author Albert Camus wrote, “In such a world of conflict, victims, and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
Scarcely seven minutes after the sentence was read out, had the executioners done their work.
Better yet, the pig should die in his sleep, finished off peacefully by trained executioners.
This organisation even maintains a high-level judiciary along with its train of countless servants, scribes, policemen and all the other assistance that it needs, perhaps even executioners and torturers - I'm not afraid of using those words.
He smiled at that part, and said he should like the last the best of the two, for he had a kind of horror upon his mind at his being sent over to the plantations, as Romans sent condemned slaves to work in the mines; that he thought the passage into another state, let it be what it would, much more tolerable at the gallows, and that this was the general notion of all the gentlemen who were driven by the exigence of their fortunes to take the road; that at the place of execution there was at least an end of all the miseries of the present state, and as for what was to follow, a man was, in his opinion, as likely to repent sincerely in the last fortnight of his life, under the pressures and agonies of a jail and the condemned hole, as he would ever be in the woods and wilderness of America; that servitude and hard labour were things gentlemen could never stoop to; that it was but the way to force them to be their own executioners afterwards, which was much worse; and that therefore he could not have any patience when he did but think of being transported.
Nor was the apprehension an idle one; one; for leaving the duenna (who did not dare to cry out) well basted, the silent executioners fell upon Don Quixote, and stripping him of the sheet and the coverlet, they pinched him so fast and so hard that he was driven to defend himself with his fists, and all this in marvellous silence.
"Do you believe, then, that at the day of the Last Judgment God will separate blind executioners from iniquitous judges?
I knew very well that they tired out their executioners, but I did not believe them so strong against their lovers!’
Was he planning to make a rush for the young woman at the very moment of the sacrifice, and boldly snatch her from her executioners?
He told Phileas Fogg that, should Aouda remain in India, she would inevitably fall again into the hands of her executioners.
But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself began to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
The miserable body which that frightful swarm of saws, wheels, and racks were about to clasp in their clutches, the being who was about to be manipulated by the harsh hands of executioners and pincers, was that gentle, white, fragile creature, a poor grain of millet which human justice was handing over to the terrible mills of torture to grind.
Charmolue was stupefied, as well as the executioners and the entire escort.
He was handsome; he, that orphan, that foundling, that outcast, he felt himself august and strong, he gazed in the face of that society from which he was banished, and in which he had so powerfully intervened, of that human justice from which he had wrenched its prey, of all those tigers whose jaws were forced to remain empty, of those policemen, those judges, those executioners, of all that force of the king which he, the meanest of creatures, had just broken, with the force of God.
To thee, O father, whose innocent daughter was defiled by executioners, I promise that thou shalt find her whiter than the lilies of Hebron!
"Sickness saved her from shame, for executioners are timid," said the youth.
Thus were to perish those whom executioners had had no chance to drive out as food for dogs and wild beasts the first day of the games.
His face expressed pain, and was inclined forward, as if to look closely for the last time at his executioner, at the man who had betrayed him, robbed him of wife and children, set a murderer on him, and who, when all this had been forgiven in the name of Christ, had delivered him to executioners.
The executioners stopped, as if made timid by his posture; the faithful held the breath in their breasts, thinking that he wished to say something, and silence unbroken followed.