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Перевод: executioner

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Тезаурус:

1. Though he ultimately lost his head under the executioner's axe, whilst that head was on his shoulders he did use it well.
2. This they failed to do and to end the sorry spectacle an order came that the executioner should cut his head off.
3. Despite his appearance, the erstwhile executioner treated the princes with a rough kindliness that set him apart from the other attendants - taking it upon himself to ensure that the food was to their liking and the fire well-tended.
4. The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from.
5. The biggest concern of the executioner, a man named Billington, was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor.
6. One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger.
7. Such a book, along with the executioner himself, is called a "breaker", and will normally be sold w.a.f. ('with all faults').
8. He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way, despite Gomez's future role as his executioner.
9. In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon, having praised Kundera's excellent novel The Joke in 1968, and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia - his legs would "refuse" to take him to Russia any more - made it to Moscow four years later; and that another French poet, Eluard, abandoned his Prague friend, the Surrealist Kalandra, to the executioner.
10. Executioner's song
11. It is said that, before he died, St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head, rather than suffer decapitation: "For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves."
12. "I hereby agree to the severing of my entire cranium and should anything go wrong on the way hold neither the executioner nor his assistant in any way responsible.
13. He had appointed himself "judge, jury and executioner".