executioner's axe

Waiting for the executioner's axe to fall after you've put your head on the block must be like this.

The edge of his right hand came down like an executioner's axe, and the gun went flying.

His head was severed by one stroke of the executioner's axe.

Charles I had a date with the executioner's axe, yet he was determined to remain calm.

All were the same to executioner's axe or hangman's rope.

A crack of thunder louder than any before it seemed to split the room like an executioner's axe.

The bull lifted his trunk high and then swung it down like an executioner's axe.

Alone on the stage, Elena hears the sound of the executioner's axe, screams and faints.

'So does the executioner's axe, but it doesn't wield itself.'

Hendrick was over him, the empty shotgun raised above his head with both hands like an executioner's axe, and he had already launched the stroke.

The thirty-seven Ildiran workers drew a collective breath, as if anticipating the fall of an executioner's axe.

The defenders were dead: by sword, fire, asphyxiation in sealed tunnels and the executioner's axe.

Babinský helps save Švanda by replacing the executioner's axe with a broom.

He wasn't able to decide if she was being warm and friendly, or if she hid an executioner's axe behind her back.

Here, when the curtain descends and the angels sing of Marguerite's salvation, the executioner's axe has not fallen.

Meanwhile the Weirds and Whitherers hang like an executioner's axe over our culture."

His men fol- lowed him, hardened sea-wolves these, all of them by rights fodder for the executioner's axe.

The so-called Executioner's Axe was really a woodman's axe on a long handle.

Because all were in service of the court, this sentence was commuted to the less terrifying one of beheading by the executioner's axe.

Brereton's words as he faced the executioner's axe, "The cause whereof I die, judge not.

Unfortunately, the executioner's axe was blunt and Nick's head was still attached to his neck by a thin strip of skin after 45 chops.

"And I haven't forgotten that Cyric would have left me for the executioner's axe if you hadn't refused to abandon me."

"You hold the executioner's axe, Marshal!

Though he ultimately lost his head under the executioner's axe, whilst that head was on his shoulders he did use it well.

History is littered with absolute monarchs who met a sticky end - whether by guillotine, firing squad or the executioner's axe.