1 The executioner of the Holy Inquisition was a sub-deacon, and knew how to burn people marvellously well, but he was not accustomed to hanging.
2 The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 3 We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 4 These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the authority of the executioner.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 5 The words of the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, beneath the hot iron of the executioner.
6 The executioner, le taule; the forest, le sabri; fear, flight, taf; the lackey, le larbin; the mineral, the prefect, the minister, pharos; the devil, le rabouin.
7 This group of victim and executioner was illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE 8 The occupation of sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror and handed over to the executioner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 9 There is a proposition almost like it in the AUGUSTINUS of the heresiarch Jansenius, whose book will sooner or later be burned by the hands of the executioner.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 10 I was executioner of the city of Lille, as this woman has said.
11 All eyes were turned towards Athos, whose real name that was, and who made a sign with his head that all was true which the executioner had said.
12 The executioner walked behind them, and Lord de Winter, d'Artagnan, Porthos, and Aramis walked behind the executioner.
13 On the bank of the river the executioner approached Milady, and bound her hands and feet.
14 "The executioner may kill, without being on that account an assassin," said the man in the red cloak, rapping upon his immense sword.
15 The executioner took her up in his arms and was carrying her toward the boat.