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  • "And he will be guillotined, will be not?" said Caderousse.†   (source)
  • Besides, she thought it in not very good taste that M. Legrandin, whose sister was married to a country gentleman of Lower Normandy near Balbec, should deliver himself of such violent attacks upon the nobles, going so far as to blame the Revolution for not having guillotined them all.†   (source)
  • After all this honour and glory, after having been almost a Queen, she was guillotined by that butcher, Samson.†   (source)
  • We learn that Luther had a hot temper and said such and such things; we learn that Rousseau was suspicious and wrote such and such books; but we do not learn why after the Reformation the peoples massacred one another, nor why during the French Revolution they guillotined one another.†   (source)
  • Their business was to go at night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at night.†   (source)
  • There were twenty-three names, but only twenty were responded to; for one of the prisoners so summoned had died in gaol and been forgotten, and two had already been guillotined and forgotten.†   (source)
  • But mark the distinction with which he is treated; instead of being knocked on the head as you would be if once they caught hold of you, he is simply sentenced to be guillotined, by which means, too, the amusements of the day are diversified, and there is a spectacle to please every spectator.†   (source)
  • You are thus deprived of seeing a man guillotined; but the mazzuola still remains, which is a very curious punishment when seen for the first time, and even the second, while the other, as you must know, is very simple.†   (source)
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  • "Oh," said Sofia, bringing the topic to a close with the efficiency of the guillotine.†   (source)
  • And a court date hanging over my head like a guillotine blade.†   (source)
  • The barricade looked like a guillotine waiting to crush intruders.†   (source)
  • Mr. Patch-Withers' face was reaching a brilliant shade, and his wife's head fell as though before the guillotine.†   (source)
  • He burst out laughing and slammed his cleaver on a salmon, its head shooting across the blood-slicked counter to land perfectly in a little guillotine bucket.†   (source)
  • Dave calls her Madame Guillotine.†   (source)
  • I was waiting for it to happen, the way a condemned man must wait that last hundredth of a second for the guillotine to fall.†   (source)
  • The outer rim of the clearing was littered with extra logs and construction equipment—an earthmover; a big crane thing with rotating blades at the end like an electric shaver—must be a tree harvester, Leo thought—and a long metal column with an ax blade, like a sideways guillotine—a hydraulic ax.†   (source)
  • I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.†   (source)
  • The airbag inflates, comes back down a second later like a curtain revealing the structure of his new life: he is stuck in a dead car in an empty pool in a TMAWH, the sirens of the Burbclave's security police are approaching, and there's a pizza behind his head, resting there like the blade of a guillotine, with 25:17 on it.†   (source)
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  • The guillotine of the French Revolution can't compete, and even in the cellars of the Russian secret police they haven't devised such virtuoso methods of mass slaughter.†   (source)
  • Then I lifted my right hand with the razor and let it drop of its own weight, like a guillotine, onto the calf of my leg.†   (source)
  • THE DEMON GUILLOTINE!†   (source)
  • Instead of going to Cleveland with their necks shaved for the drop of the guillotine blade, they would show up with battle plans drawn to reverse the effects of the Zingers snafu.†   (source)
  • His neck, exposed as if in, preparation for the guillotine, was sprinkled with Pop-Tarts crumbs.†   (source)
  • In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.†   (source)
  • The one thing Matron allowed her to do without supervision was to use the foreskin guillotine.†   (source)
  • I'd craft elaborate covers—a tiny, two-dimensional working guillotine for my essay on A Tale of Two Cities; a science lab on prisms with the header rainbowed in multiple colors; a scarlet letter for …. well, you get the picture.†   (source)
  • The Quai d'Orsay wants my underwear burned with me in it, and were it not for certain information I possess regarding several members of the Assembly, they would no doubt revive the guillotine.†   (source)
  • At Lyon, where the guillotine wasthought too slow a means of dispensing with antirevolutionaries, hundreds were mown down by cannon fire.†   (source)
  • Born with the appendages of power, circumcised by a guillotine, and baptized with the steam from a million nonreflective mirrors, these young men wouldn't be called upon to thrust a bayonet into an Asian farmer, target a torpedo, scatter their iron seed from a B-52 into the wound of the earth, point a finger to move a nation, or stick a pole into the moon—and they knew it.†   (source)
  • It looked like a walk to mount either a pedestal or a guillotine.†   (source)
  • Without a moment's hesitation, she lifted the heavy blade above her head and— The cleaver froze, poised like a guillotine, above the unsuspecting man.†   (source)
  • And get that guillotine away from my neck while you're waving your hands like that.†   (source)
  • But the former Nashville professor was horrified by the mad passion of the House in rushing through the impeachment resolution by evidence against Johnson "based on falsehood," and by the "corrupt and dishonorable" Ben Butler, "a wicked man who seeks to convert the Senate of the United States into a political guillotine."†   (source)
  • The captain bowed again, which made him look a little too much like a guillotine.†   (source)
  • Dave tenses as Madame Guillotine advances.†   (source)
  • Madame Guillotine hovers above, waiting for us to continue.†   (source)
  • I tell the annoying classmates to shove it, and Madame Guillotine gets mad at me.†   (source)
  • My voice rises, and Madame Guillotine jerks her head up from across the room.†   (source)
  • Marat was murdered; Danton and Robespierre went to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • The guillotine or an end to the death penalty?†   (source)
  • Madame Guillotine doesn't break stride.†   (source)
  • The overhanging trees shaded the water and provided ample potential hiding places for crossbows or guillotine blades.†   (source)
  • Another had a guillotine.†   (source)
  • Monsieur Guillotine cleared his throat.†   (source)
  • I seized the boats that sailed under the flag of the idea which I am fighting: the idea that need is a sacred idol requiring human sacrifices-that the need of some men is the knife of a guillotine hanging over others-that all of us must live with our work, our hopes, our plans, our efforts at the mercy of the moment when that knife will descend upon us-and that the extent of our ability is the extent of our danger, so that success will bring our heads down on the block, while failure…†   (source)
  • Me, thought Will, seeing the guillotine flash, the Egyptian mirrors unfold accordions of light, and the sulphur-skinned devil-man sipping lava, like gunpowder tea.†   (source)
  • That October, Marie Antoinette went to the guillotine, as did Brissot de Warville, who had visited the Adamses in Quincy.†   (source)
  • The papers described the King's last ride, the scaffold where "his head was severed from his body in one stroke" by the guillotine, the cries of "Vice la Nation!" from the crowds, then hats thrown in the air.†   (source)
  • There stood Monsieur Guillotine, black tights, black long stockings, black hood over head, arms crossed over his chest, stiff straight by his chopping machine the blade high in the tent sky, a hungry knife all flashes and meteor shine, much desiring to cleave space.†   (source)
  • Ordered home to Paris, to face charges of misconduct, whichmeant almost certain death by guillotine, Genet chose to stay on in New York, where eventually he married the daughter of George Clinton and settled down to the life of a country gentleman on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Monsieur Guillotine!†   (source)
  • A waxworks fright, good and proper, she was, and the policemen beamed, viewing her, and strolled on, and beamed at Monsieur Guillotine for his act too, and moving, the police were relaxing now, and seemed not to mind being called late on a jolly venture into a rehearsing world of acrobats and seedy magicians.†   (source)
  • In France the Reign of Terror commenced, a siege of vicious retribution that would send nearly 3,000 men and women to the guillotine in Paris alone, while in the provinces the slaughter was even more savage.†   (source)
  • They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad.†   (source)
  • There were a dozen gentlemen there in morning coats and gowns, and a newly erected guillotine.†   (source)
  • What had struck me at the time was the neat appearance of the guillotine; its shining surfaces and finish reminded me of some laboratory instrument.†   (source)
  • Still, they will not guillotine her.†   (source)
  • For after taking much thought, calmly, I came to the conclusion that what was wrong about the guillotine was that the condemned man had no chance at all, absolutely none.†   (source)
  • This problem of a loophole obsesses me; I am always wondering if there have been cases of condemned prisoners' escaping from the implacable machinery of justice at the last moment, breaking through the police cordon, vanishing in the nick of time before the guillotine falls.†   (source)
  • Citoyen Grospierre had paid for his blunder on the guillotine, but what a fool! oh! what a fool!†   (source)
  • He shows himself at the guillotine, and he laughs.†   (source)
  • A strong card—a certain Guillotine card!†   (source)
  • So afflicted to find that his friend has drawn a prize in the lottery of Sainte Guillotine?†   (source)
  • What think you of Marat clapping his hands at the guillotine?†   (source)
  • Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this head, to-morrow that.†   (source)
  • You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.†   (source)
  • Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.†   (source)
  • Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine.†   (source)
  • Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!†   (source)
  • And then we'll go to see the guillotine work.†   (source)
  • The ministers of Sainte Guillotine are robed and ready.†   (source)
  • And I shall certainly go to see him beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!†   (source)
  • The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, a sword in the night.†   (source)
  • I call myself the Samson of the firewood guillotine.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Grospierre had been sent to the guillotine for allowing a whole family of aristos to slip out of the North Gate under his very nose.†   (source)
  • They put a man inside a frame and a sort of broad knife falls by machinery—they call the thing a guillotine-it falls with fearful force and weight-the head springs off so quickly that you can't wink your eye in between.†   (source)
  • I thought of asking you to draw the face of a criminal, one minute before the fall of the guillotine, while the wretched man is still standing on the scaffold, preparatory to placing his neck on the block.†   (source)
  • "Do you know, though," cried the prince warmly, "you made that remark now, and everyone says the same thing, and the machine is designed with the purpose of avoiding pain, this guillotine I mean; but a thought came into my head then: what if it be a bad plan after all?†   (source)
  • That I denounced the Marquis de St. Cyr, you mean, to the tribunal that ultimately sent him and all his family to the guillotine?†   (source)
  • Armand is hopelessly compromised …. to-morrow, perhaps he will be arrested …. after that the guillotine …. unless …. oh! it is horrible!†   (source)
  • He was arraigned for treason against the nation, and sent to the guillotine, whilst his family, his wife and his sons, shared in this awful fate.†   (source)
  • But my pride sealed my lips, when your love seemed to perish, as if under the knife of that same guillotine.†   (source)
  • Had he already laid his plans for catching the daring plotter, red-handed, in France, and sending him to the guillotine without compunction or delay?†   (source)
  • "I made friends with Madame Guillotine's lover," she said with a coarse laugh, "he cut these off for me from the heads as they rolled down.†   (source)
  • Robespierre, Danton, Marat, she had not known in their new guise of bloody judiciaries, merciless wielders of the guillotine.†   (source)
  • The massacres continue; Paris literally reeks with blood; and the guillotine claims a hundred victims a day.†   (source)
  • 'You'll go to the guillotine for this, citoyen sergeant! that cart held concealed the CI-DEVANT Duc de Chalis and all his family!'†   (source)
  • To think of Armand dying a traitor's death on the guillotine was too horrible even to dwell upon—impossible in fact.†   (source)
  • Robespierre and Danton both had commended Bibot for his zeal and Bibot was proud of the fact that he on his own initiative had sent at least fifty aristos to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • Chauvelin drew a deep breath of satisfaction at the very thought of seeing that enigmatic head falling under the knife of the guillotine, as easily as that of any other man.†   (source)
  • And thus he looked upon every French aristocrat, who had succeeded in escaping from France, as so much prey of which the guillotine had been unwarrantably cheated.†   (source)
  • It was great fun to see the aristos arriving for the reception of Madame la Guillotine, and the places close by the platform were very much sought after.†   (source)
  • Those cursed aristos were becoming terrified and tried their hardest to slip out of Paris: men, women and children, whose ancestors, even in remote ages, had served those traitorous Bourbons, were all traitors themselves and right food for the guillotine.†   (source)
  • The women who drove the carts usually spent their day on the Place de la Greve, beneath the platform of the guillotine, knitting and gossiping, whilst they watched the rows of tumbrils arriving with the victims the Reign of Terror claimed every day.†   (source)
  • During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.†   (source)
  • He made her eyes glow with enthusiasm by telling her of his bravery, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness, when it meant snatching the lives of men, women, and even children from beneath the very edge of that murderous, ever-ready guillotine.†   (source)
  • It was asserted that these escapes were organised by a band of Englishmen, whose daring seemed to be unparalleled, and who, from sheer desire to meddle in what did not concern them, spent their spare time in snatching away lawful victims destined for Madame la Guillotine.†   (source)
  • Chauvelin had sworn to bring the Scarlet Pimpernel to the guillotine, and now the daring plotter, whose anonymity hitherto had been his safeguard, stood revealed through her own hand, to his most bitter, most relentless enemy.†   (source)
  • No doubt he feared that threats of the guillotine, and various other persuasive methods of that type, might addle the old man's brains, and that he would be more likely to be useful through greed of gain, than through terror of death.†   (source)
  • The lust of blood grows with its satisfaction, there is no satiety: the crowd had seen a hundred noble heads fall beneath the guillotine to-day, it wanted to make sure that it would see another hundred fall on the morrow.†   (source)
  • At any rate we could send him to the guillotine first to cool his ardour, then, when there is a diplomatic fuss about it, we can apologise—humbly—to the British Government, and, if necessary, pay compensation to the bereaved family.†   (source)
  • "You might have saved me, Margot!" he seemed to say to her, "and you chose the life of a stranger, a man you do not know, whom you have never seen, and preferred that he should be safe, whilst you sent me to the guillotine!"†   (source)
  • Twenty-four hours after our marriage, Madame, the Marquis de St. Cyr and all his family perished on the guillotine, and the popular rumour reached me that it was the wife of Sir Percy Blakeney who helped to send them there.†   (source)
  • And this band of young Englishmen had, to her own knowledge, bearded the implacable and bloodthirsty tribunal of the Revolution, within the very walls of Paris itself, and had snatched away condemned victims, almost from the very foot of the guillotine.†   (source)
  • The incident was one which, in those days, some two years before the great Revolution, was of almost daily occurrence in France; incidents of that type, in fact, led to bloody reprisals, which a few years later sent most of those haughty heads to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • When he has thus unconsciously betrayed those who blindly trust in him, when nothing can be gained from him, and he is ready to come back to England, with those whom he has gone so bravely to save, the doors of the trap will close upon him, and he will be sent to end his noble life upon the guillotine.†   (source)
  • You thought I meant to deceive you about it all—that I ought to have spoken before I married you: yet, had you listened, I would have told you that up to the very morning on which St. Cyr went to the guillotine, I was straining every nerve, using every influence I possessed, to save him and his family.†   (source)
  • Armand, whose life was in the most imminent danger, and who seemed to be looking at her from a background upon which were dimly painted the seething crowd of Paris, the bare walls of the Tribunal of Public Safety, with Foucquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, demanding Armand's life in the name of the people of France, and the lurid guillotine with its stained knife waiting for another victim ….†   (source)
  • He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them annihilated: he was one of those who, during this awful Reign of Terror, had been the first to utter the historic and ferocious desire "that aristocrats might have but one head between them, so that it might be cut off with a single stroke of the guillotine."†   (source)
  • Twenty-four hours after the simple little ceremony at old St. Roch, she had told him the story of how, inadvertently, she had spoken of certain matters connected with the Marquis de St. Cyr before some men—her friends—who had used this information against the unfortunate Marquis, and sent him and his family to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • Oh! that was extremely funny, for as often as not the fugitive would prove to be a woman, some proud marchioness, who looked terribly comical when she found herself in Bibot's clutches after all, and knew that a summary trial would await her the next day and after that, the fond embrace of Madame la Guillotine.†   (source)
  • Their ancestors had oppressed the people, had crushed them under the scarlet heels of their dainty buckled shoes, and now the people had become the rulers of France and crushed their former masters—not beneath their heel, for they went shoeless mostly in these days—but a more effectual weight, the knife of the guillotine.†   (source)
  • When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine.†   (source)
  • All resistance had been rendered impossible to him by what was then called, in the style of the criminal chancellery, "the vehemence and firmness of the bonds" which means that the thongs and chains probably cut into his flesh; moreover, it is a tradition of jail and wardens, which has not been lost, and which the handcuffs still preciously preserve among us, a civilized, gentle, humane people (the galleys and the guillotine in parentheses).†   (source)
  • According to the received code in such matters, it would have been nothing short of duty, in a politician, to bring every one of those white heads under the axe of the guillotine.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid, after all, you won't have the pleasure of going gracefully to the guillotine here just now," Mr. Touchett went on.†   (source)
  • A shout greeted the arrival of the guillotine, which was thrust forward on the same wheels that had borne it from one to another of the bloodstained streets of Paris.†   (source)
  • What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them.†   (source)
  • The apartment of the jailer and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case—the guillotine locked up.'†   (source)
  • " Do you not see," he said, " the penalty of learning, and that each of these scholars whom you have met at S-, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one ?†   (source)
  • And so, covered with his brothers' kisses, Richard is dragged on to the scaffold, and led to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, and it was a long time before he recovered from it.†   (source)
  • The word "wife" seemed to serve as a gloomy reminder to Defarge, to say with sudden impatience, "In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?"†   (source)
  • It was the first time Franz had ever seen a guillotine,—we say guillotine, because the Roman mandaia is formed on almost the same model as the French instrument.†   (source)
  • It is very easy," he went on with a smile; "I will remain here, rush on the first person that opens the door, strangle him, and then they will guillotine me."†   (source)
  • …its torture for which it reconstructed every five years a leather bed at the Grand Châtelet, that ancient suzerain of feudal society almost expunged from our laws and our cities, hunted from code to code, chased from place to place, has no longer, in our immense Paris, any more than a dishonored corner of the Grève,—than a miserable guillotine, furtive, uneasy, shameful, which seems always afraid of being caught in the act, so quickly does it disappear after having dealt its blow.†   (source)
  • The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine—the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.†   (source)
  • If the guillotine, as applied to office-holders, were a literal fact, instead of one of the most apt of metaphors, it is my sincere belief that the active members of the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped off all our heads, and have thanked Heaven for the opportunity!†   (source)
  • Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.†   (source)
  • The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne.†   (source)
  • In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us, but was held, in the old time, to be as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship, as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France.†   (source)
  • A double line of carbineers, placed on each side of the door of the church, reached to the scaffold, and formed a circle around it, leaving a path about ten feet wide, and around the guillotine a space of nearly a hundred feet.†   (source)
  • M. Noirtier, who, on the previous night, was the old Jacobin, the old senator, the old Carbonaro, laughing at the guillotine, the cannon, and the dagger—M. Noirtier, playing with revolutions—M. Noirtier, for whom France was a vast chess-board, from which pawns, rooks, knights, and queens were to disappear, so that the king was checkmated—M. Noirtier, the redoubtable, was the next morning 'poor M. Noirtier,' the helpless old man, at the tender mercies of the weakest creature in the…†   (source)
  • …a man had by unheard-of and excruciating tortures destroyed your father, your mother, your betrothed,—a being who, when torn from you, left a desolation, a wound that never closes, in your breast,—do you think the reparation that society gives you is sufficient when it interposes the knife of the guillotine between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer, and allows him who has caused us years of moral sufferings to escape with a few moments of physical pain?†   (source)
  • * Guillotine.†   (source)
  • The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicte; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral.†   (source)
  • During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husband's head next day.†   (source)
  • All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine.†   (source)
  • To fall in love with Pere Duchesne, to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on the guitar under the balcony of '93—it's enough to make one spit on all these young fellows, such fools are they!†   (source)
  • The ridges thrown to this side and to that, now crumble in and close behind the last plough as it passes on, for all are following to the Guillotine.†   (source)
  • One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against.†   (source)
  • He obstinately maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, those chatterers of the law, as he called them.†   (source)
  • The "sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine," was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name.†   (source)
  • La Fontaine perhaps; magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and gold above their heads, declare…†   (source)
  • To the Guillotine all aristocrats!†   (source)
  • The Greve having disappeared with the elder branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name of the Barriere-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of Casimir Perier, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides.†   (source)
  • He had since seen her, in the Section of Saint Antoine, over and over again produce her knitted registers, and denounce people whose lives the guillotine then surely swallowed up.†   (source)
  • The Guillotine goes handsomely.†   (source)
  • Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, and I maintain it against all, whoever you may be, whether journalists, economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine!†   (source)
  • Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world—the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine.†   (source)
  • How many to the Guillotine to-day?†   (source)
  • I call it my Little Guillotine.†   (source)
  • Similarly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind.†   (source)
  • On his house-top, he displayed pike and cap, as a good citizen must, and in a window he had stationed his saw inscribed as his "Little Sainte Guillotine"— for the great sharp female was by that time popularly canonised.†   (source)
  • …burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.†   (source)
  • They leisurely walk round the carriage and leisurely mount the box, to look at what little luggage it carries on the roof; the country-people hanging about, press nearer to the coach doors and greedily stare in; a little child, carried by its mother, has its short arm held out for it, that it may touch the wife of an aristocrat who has gone to the Guillotine.†   (source)
  • In this car of triumph, not even the Doctor's entreaties could prevent his being carried to his home on men's shoulders, with a confused sea of red caps heaving about him, and casting up to sight from the stormy deep such wrecks of faces, that he more than once misdoubted his mind being in confusion, and that he was in the tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.†   (source)
  • You mean the Guillotine.†   (source)
  • Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cellars of the loathsome prisons, and carried to her through the streets to slake her devouring thirst.†   (source)
  • It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine, looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.†   (source)
  • In addition, he restored the final /e/ in /determine/, /discipline/, /requisite/, /imagine/, etc. In 1838, revising his dictionary, he abandoned a good many spellings that had appeared in either the 1806 or the 1828 edition, notably /maiz/ for /maize/, [Pg252] /suveran/ for /sovereign/ and /guillotin/ for /guillotine/.†   (source)
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