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a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state (most associated with the French Revolution); or executing someone in such a manner- She followed the sounds and, coming to the end of a shallow passage, found Dodge, Bibwit, Hatter, General Doppelganger, the white knight, and the rook kneeling with their hands fastened behind them, their heads locked in an enormous guillotine.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
guillotine = a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state
- Alyss again imagined wads of the sticky substance shooting from her sleeves, gumming up the guillotine's works and keeping its blade from falling.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- There were a dozen gentlemen there in morning coats and gowns, and a newly erected guillotine.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- 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.Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- Still, they will not guillotine her.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- 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.Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying
- It looked like a walk to mount either a pedestal or a guillotine.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- Another had a guillotine.Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
- At Lyon, where the guillotine wasthought too slow a means of dispensing with antirevolutionaries, hundreds were mown down by cannon fire.David McCullough -- John Adams
- 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.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- The captain bowed again, which made him look a little too much like a guillotine.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- 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.Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
- His neck, exposed as if in, preparation for the guillotine, was sprinkled with Pop-Tarts crumbs.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- And so, covered with his brothers' kisses, Richard is dragged on to the scaffold, and led to the guillotine.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- "I'm afraid, after all, you won't have the pleasure of going gracefully to the guillotine here just now," Mr. Touchett went on.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- And get that guillotine away from my neck while you're waving your hands like that.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- The one thing Matron allowed her to do without supervision was to use the foreskin guillotine.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
guillotine = a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state
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