All 11 Uses
guillotine
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
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- 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.
Chpt 5-6guillotine = a device used to behead people executed by the state
- "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."
Chpt 19-20guillotine = behead (cut off the head of)
- 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.
Chpt 33-34guillotined = beheaded
- 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.†
Chpt 35-36
- Guillotine.
Chpt 35-36guillotine = a device used to behead people executed by the state
- —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?
Chpt 35-36
- It was the first time Franz had ever seen a guillotine,
Chpt 35-36 *
- —we say guillotine, because the Roman mandaia is formed on almost the same model as the French instrument.
Chpt 35-36
- 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.
Chpt 35-36
- 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…
Chpt 47-48
- "And he will be guillotined, will be not?" said Caderousse.
Chpt 83-84guillotined = beheaded
Definitions:
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(1)
(guillotine) a device used to behead people (most associated with the French Revolution); or executing someone in such a mannerA guillotine consists of a weighted blade that falls downward between two vertical poles.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)