If I were a gravedigger, or even a hangman, there are some people I can work for with a great deal of pleasure. 如果我是个掘墓人,甚至是执行绞刑者的话,对一些人,我非常愿意为他们效劳。
Play hangman with your spelling words with a friend. 与你的朋友一起玩词汇拼写游戏。
Roderigo. By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman. 罗德利哥天哪,我宁愿做他的刽子手。
hangman
[ noun ] an executioner who hangs the condemned person <noun.person>
Hangman \Hang"man\ (h[a^]ng"man), n.; pl. {Hangmen} (-men). One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. --Shak.
Odom was inside a free-standing wooden cupboard, intending to fake a hangman scene, said his grandmother Hattie Carpenter, who was at the party.
There are old illustrations, deploring this hangman's tactic. For years, therefore, I have pricked myself in cold winters: I have cut out long canes from the ramblers and struggled to open out the centre of Mrs Herbert Stevens in late February.
In January 1901, Mrs. Soffel, the wife of the jail's warden, engineered the escape of handsome Jack and Ed Biddle, who were awaiting the hangman for murder.
He was dressed as a pirate, and around his neck was a 3-foot length of nylon rope tied into a hangman's knot hanging from a bar.
His injury is called a "hangman's fracture" because that is where a noose hits in a hanging.
But it covered no more than Martyn Wiley's interview with a retired hangman.