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How to use headsman in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word headsman? Here are some examples.

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Monmouth himself was captured, and executed by a headsman who botched his job.
In the old days the nobility would tip the headsman to make a clean job of it.
The song is supposed to be read as a metaphor: the lover is like a headsman.
Set in the 16th century, it shows us the romantic life of a headsman, that is, the executioner who must chop people's heads off when they misbehave.
With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
While Henry VIII, said to be a gout sufferer, could do his explaining with a headsman for anyone bold enough to ask him about his diet, simpler folks may need to settle for a flack.
Altogether the scene was somewhat peculiar, at least to Captain Delano, nor, as he saw the two thus postured, could he resist the vagary, that in the black he saw a headsman, and in the white, a man at the block.
The hooded headsman leads the condemned man to the block.
The clean strike, confirmed by an examination of the king's body at Windsor in 1813, suggests that the execution was carried out by an experienced headsman.
Examples from Classical Literature
The headsman hastened to place his own cloak beneath him, so displaying the axe.
The people gave him place of honor in the kashim, and made him their headsman.
And as I said this, I untied my cravat, and appeared to prepare for the headsman.
The headsman, on the other hand, had scarcely anything to do to earn his hundred guilders.
It is in the names of Liberty and Brotherhood that the prisons will reek, and the headsman be glutted.
A poniard was buried to the hilt in the left breast of the headsman.
Just before he was executed he asked the headsman what his name was.
Borodino looked like the Old World headsman, clad in terrible red, and carrying the ax for the execution of the criminal.
There was no head in the least elevated which had not passed through his hands before it came to the headsman.
But I swear that I shall not help you to escape the headsman.
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