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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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- A million folk ran toting cannons, sharpening guillotines; Chinese, four abreast, marched on forever.†
Part 1
- THE DEMON GUILLOTINE!†
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- 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.†
Part 1
- 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.†
Part 1
- Monsieur Guillotine cleared his throat.†
Part 1
- 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.†
Part 1
- Monsieur Guillotine!†
Part 2
- Among the wax figures of murdered, gunshot, guillotined, garroted men and women the two boys sat like Egyptian cats, unblinked, untwitched, unswallowing.†
Part 3
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)