executioner's sword

Everything else turned gray-brown, hanging over our heads like an executioner's sword.

Steely justice from the big, curved blade of my executioner's sword.

Just the executioner's sword for the lot of you."

He lugs a hanger that is damned near an executioner's sword.

But decay seems inevitable, the executioner's sword descending with languid grace.

Another took the head from a Kubrati as neatly as an executioner's sword might have done.

The gruesome mummified hand of a criminal and the 16th-century executioner's sword are highlights.

"Your Highness, we're as likely a crew for the executioner's sword, but we do know how to die gloriously."

Executioner's sword (16th century swords designed for executions, especially in Germany)

German executioner's sword dated to 1674 at the Royal Armouries.

He raised his arms under the executioner's sword and shouted, 'Jesus of Nazareth, leave the desert.

"Verdugo - whose name means the executioner's sword!

FitzRoy had retreated from the scaffold as soon as the executioner's sword fell.

But as the executioner's sword descended upon his neck, a bolt of pure blue lightning struck the blade, shattering it.

When no longer used for executions, an executioner's sword sometimes continued to be used in processions as a symbol of judicial power.

An executioner's sword is a sword designed specifically for decapitation of condemned criminals (as opposed to combat).

As the condemned man was presenting his neck to the executioner's sword, there suddenly appeared the very comrade who was supposedly murdered.

He had seen how the captured Mongs died beneath the executioner's sword and he knew that Cossa would not run.

And from the blackness it came hurtling towards them, a livid line of red, like the bloody edge of an executioner's sword.

Chapter Five Thuck-Thuck-Thuck- the executioner's sword flamed in sunlight and descended.

The next day, as Astegal is being walked to the block, he breaks his bonds, steals the executioner's sword, and takes Sidonie hostage.

Before the executioner's sword lands, the Doctor unfurls his scarf and hooks it around the executioner's ankle, throwing him off balance.

In the Middle Ages, decapitations were executed with regular swords, and the earliest known specifically designed executioner's swords dates to ca. 1540.

Angered by this, Eris saves him by shattering the executioner's sword to pieces, and quarrels with him for his honesty.

The Queen and Chrestos and those barons loyal to them were taken bloodlessly; when blood did flow, it gushed out from under an executioner's sword.