hangman
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
For the sailor and the hangman, it had been indispensable in the past, the narrator declared.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
The paper was covered in her work trying to decode it, which looked like a bunch of unfinished hangman games minus the hanging men.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
ROBIN: Brother, an this hangman hang, fewer hangmen shall there be to hang, forsooth.
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
