EXECUTIONER in a Sentence

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1. I was executioner of the city of Lille, as this woman has said.
2. The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall.
3. The executioner took her up in his arms and was carrying her toward the boat.
4. On the bank of the river the executioner approached Milady, and bound her hands and feet.
5. These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the authority of the executioner.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXECUTIONER
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executioner
 n.  one who executes, especially one who puts a condemned person to death; an executer.
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The executioner of the Holy Inquisition was a sub-deacon, and knew how to burn people marvellously well, but he was not accustomed to hanging.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
2  The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
3  We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
4  These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the authority of the executioner.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
5  The words of the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, beneath the hot iron of the executioner.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
6  The executioner, le taule; the forest, le sabri; fear, flight, taf; the lackey, le larbin; the mineral, the prefect, the minister, pharos; the devil, le rabouin.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
7  This group of victim and executioner was illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
8  The occupation of sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror and handed over to the executioner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
9  There is a proposition almost like it in the AUGUSTINUS of the heresiarch Jansenius, whose book will sooner or later be burned by the hands of the executioner.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
10  I was executioner of the city of Lille, as this woman has said.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
11  All eyes were turned towards Athos, whose real name that was, and who made a sign with his head that all was true which the executioner had said.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
12  The executioner walked behind them, and Lord de Winter, d'Artagnan, Porthos, and Aramis walked behind the executioner.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
13  On the bank of the river the executioner approached Milady, and bound her hands and feet.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
14  "The executioner may kill, without being on that account an assassin," said the man in the red cloak, rapping upon his immense sword.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
15  The executioner took her up in his arms and was carrying her toward the boat.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
Example Sentence:
1  Beheading is one of the quickest and least painful ways to die - so long as the executioner is skilled, his blade sharp, and the condemned sits still.