"public" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was the public executioner appointed by M to represent the community.
- But I do not like the public executioner being turned into the private executioner.
- Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock?
- A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner.
- Antoninus (died 186) was a public executioner in Rome.
- "But you can't go around acting like a public executioner."
- Here, in 1762, the public executioner burned Rousseau's provocative educational treatise "Emile."
- Leave him to the public executioner?
- His book was burned by the public executioner.
- The sentence was posted by the public executioner between the sentences of two public malefactors.
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