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Letter "H" » hangman
«Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck»
Author: Eli Wallach
(Actor)
| Keywords:
critics, hangman, neck, necked, necking, our critics, praise, Praise You, pretty, The Necks
«His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.»
«If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.»
Author: Luther Burbank
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
hangman, jury, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, prosecuting attorney, violate
«If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
a great deal, deal, digger, enjoyment, grave, graver, gravest, great deal, hangman, If I were a, O grave
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
«If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime»
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