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1 The more as it was no mere show, but some of us saw only too distinctly behind it the figure of the headsman and the block.

2 Three more priests or monks, infected with the fever of suicide, rushed excitedly to present their necks to the headsman.

3 So I directed my second mate and the boatswain to go in chase of the old whale, whilst I and the third mate—a very experienced headsman—attacked the young bulls.

4 Yes; for those who sport with the knife, the headsman's steel is the proper fate; for those who steal, the 'darbies' to their heels: each his proper punishment.

5 It has beauty enough to save thy "slender neck" from the axe of the critical headsman.

6 In a week, moreover, the headsman of our village is to marry.

7 With a firm step he ascended to the platform, without a tremor viewed the block on which he was to lose his head, and looked calmly on while the grim headsman made it ready.

8 The place of execution was not far distant, and there the sword of the headsman ended his long course of sufferings, and released that heroic soul from that feeble body.

9 I heard the cackling laugh of Don Silvio, I saw the headsman draw a step closer, his arms go up, and then I shut my eyes, and remember no more.

10 Thou look'st as if the king's headsman were after thee, and not thou after his enemies.

11 There he crouched, a demon in human semblance, gloating over the anguish of the people, the groans of his victims, and counting the strokes of the headsman's axe.

12 There is one in my employ who wields a more potent weapon—mark you—and that is Gomez, the headsman.

13 The headsman laughed abruptly like a man relieved.

14 But the headsman moved her hand away, fearing its softness might hinder his business.

15 The words were hardly spoken when the headsmen reached the door.

16 Then he laid himself down; and since the headsman feared to strike, and well he might fear, my lord himself hurried him.

17 When the structure was ready they covered it with red cloth, and placed upon it a three-legged chair and by the side of the chair leaned a bright round headsman's sword.

18 The headsman against you, and your heads under the sword edge!

19 The chief slipped down the river one night with fourteen paddlers, a drummer, his chief headsman, and two of his wives, and reached the Akasava city at sunset the next evening.

20 The Cardinal travels with his headsman, And he must be employed; the ax will rust.

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