Use "hangman" in a sentence
hangman example sentences
hangman
1. To great applause, the hangman placed the noose around the soldier's neck and made ready to pull the lever that would send the soldier to his death
2. The director of the live television special whispered into his microphone and the cameras panned in on the hangman, on the judge and on the soldier
3. Through the latest audio communications wizardry, the director asked the hangman to wait
4. The hangman, fearing for his own life, immediately cut the soldier down and untied the ropes that bound his hands and legs
5. communications wizardry, the director asked the hangman to wait
6. The hangman reached
7. The hangman, fearing for his own life, immediately cut the
8. ” I trudged up the stairs my head hung low like a dog that had taken a beating I was a little unsteady on my feet but I eventually made I as Helen followed behind like a hangman
9. ) Also, most did survive to meet to the hangman or to meet their mates in Robben Island
10. It felt like the last rites had been performed before the hangman had performed his evil deed
11. There were cropped ears, slit noses, gaping eye-sockets, stumps of wrists—marks of the hangman as well as scars of battle
12. Another popular favorite is Hangman but it is best to avoid the hanging imagery in the classroom so a scoring system would be better
13. I could hear the hangman speaking but didn't know what he said
14. If he did kill her, I’ll rob the hangman of his job
15. Could that be the ultimate justice of which Preacher Cooper had spoken? Or was that the oath Lord Ashburn had made to rob the hangman of his duty? Or was it something far more sinister that involved the supernatural—the Grey Man? For now, the investigation was only in its infancy, but he hoped to have gained a better understanding of this case by the time the sun set this evening so that he would not lose the trail of the real killer
16. “You see, someone cheated the hangman out of his job last night when they killed Terence Underwood
17. “You don’t think that the Hangman could be doing what we do over there?”
18. Hitler cheated the hangman and escaped the wrath of the
19. walked to the midpoint of the gallows where the hangman nooses was
20. The hangman, the Renowned Ronald O
21. Archimbault, hangman by trade, I presume
22. His wrath and hate were so intense that he was willing to risk his own life by stalking Olin in a crowd of people that included a capable sheriff that might capture him for the hangman, or kill him outright in the attempt
23. And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!
24. Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,
25. "What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred reals at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor prisoners; and you who have neither profession nor property, and hang about the island in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and some time of the day to-morrow quit the island under sentence of banishment for ten years, and under pain of completing it in another life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or I'll make him feel my hand
26. The hangman did as he was bid, and was tying the cord firmly, when he was
27. "Loosen the Jewish doctor," said he to the hangman, "and string up the tailor
28. The playwright who wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later), the lord of things as they are whom the most Roman of catholics call dio boia, hangman god, is doubtless all in all in all of us, ostler and butcher, and would be bawd and cuckold too but that in the economy of heaven, foretold by Hamlet, there are no more marriages, glorified man, an androgynous angel, being a wife unto himself
29. Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged
30. Anyhow, it seems a mighty empty world now that he is gone, and I don't care a continental whether you give me over to the hangman or not
31. “By special Permission o’ the Hangman,” he went on, “(which we paid dear fer, I’ll warrant ye), Martin an’ I were to dye together in the very same Cart, so after we had said our pretty Speeches, an’ been duly blest by the drunken Preacher, we climb’d into the Cart just as jaunty as ye please, kiss’d each other full upon the Lips before the whole Crowd—which, I’ll warrant ye, drove ’em wild—(fer ne’er had they seen two lovin’ Men, lovin’ in Publick before such a Crowd o’ scurvy Rogues no less!), an’ then the Executioner puts a Noose around each o’ our Necks, fastens the other End to that ill-favour’d Beam, an’ this done, he gives the Horse a Lash with his Whip, an’ away goes the Cart, and lo! we are hoisted up in the Air by our Ears!”
32. And adjacent to that Pit of Terrors we saw a still more terrible Room where, of Old, the Hangman us’d to seethe the Quarter’d Limbs of Traitors in Pitch, Tar, and Oil
33. At this, Susannah’s Face fell and she lookt so pitiable that e’en a Hangman would have wept to see her
34. The locality was spoken of as though it had been the dwelling of a hangman
35. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman
36. They might have presented it to the hangman, but one would feel a trifle diffident about giving pearls to the man who put a rope about one’s neck
37. Friendship isn’t possible with one’s hangman, I should imagine
38. If you was up on the gallows you’d be passin’ the time a day with the hangman
39. Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer but the hangman who would gain his fee?
40. At ten the watchman came again and announced that a hangman had arrived from Moscow
41. ‘Then the hangman pulled a bit so as to tighten the noose, and it was all up, and they never budged
42. But now, to the greatest astonishment of the prison authorities, he said he did not intend to go, and added that he would not be a hangman any more
43. When Mahin was told of that incident, he was greatly impressed by the fact of Stepan’s influence on the hangman, who refused to do his duty, running the risk of being hanged himself for insubordination
44. AT an evening party at the Eropkins, Mahin, who was paying attentions to the two young daughters of the house—they were rich matches, both of them—having earned great applause for his fine singing and playing the piano, began telling the company about the strange convict who had converted the hangman
45. He got interested in Stepan Pelageushkine, and, although he did not thoroughly understand him, yet asked himself involuntarily what was the matter with the man? He could not find an answer, but feeling that there was certainly something remarkable going on in Stepan’s soul, he told the company at the Eropkins all about Stepan’s conversion of the hangman, and also about his strange behaviour in prison, his reading the Gospels and his great influence on the rest of the prisoners
46. One Sunday Malania came home from church in her new dress and her new boots, and announced to her mistress that the gallows were being erected, and that the hangman was expected from Moscow on Wednesday
47. There is no hangman to be found
48. The story of the hangman having refused to do his duty, and preferring to take the flogging instead, suddenly changed the soul of Natalia Ivanovna
49. As though men were to complain that those who accepted the office of hangman were—by some strange fatality—all persons of very little refinement or beauty of character
50. The representatives of Christ give their blessing to the ranks of murderers holding their guns loaded against their brothers; "for prayer" priests, ministers of various Christian sects are always present, as indispensably as the hangman, at executions, and sanction by their presence the compatibility of murder with Christianity (a clergyman assisted at the attempt at murder by electricity in America)—but such facts cause no one any surprise