hangman
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
The Good Lord Bird opens with Brown climbing a scaffold and, right before the hangman puts a hood over his head, saying, “What a beautiful country.”
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2020
Seems that “Wheel” is just hangman, but pricier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
The play’s ingenious setup centers on Harry Wade, England’s second-best hangman, on the day in 1965 that the country effectively abolished executions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
We’ve used up all our paper playing hangman, and my pencil is down to a nub.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
Although there have been no hangings since 1976 two hangmen were recently recruited but were later reported to have been sacked after absconding.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2013
The pay is not very good for hangmen, partly because of the paucity of hangings but also because the job is considered contract work.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
I regarded the whole human species as so many hangmen and torturers; I considered them as confederated to tear me to pieces; and this wide scene of inexorable persecution inflicted upon me inexpressible agony.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
