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Definition of Guillotining
1. guillotine [v] - See also: guillotine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guillotining
Literary usage of Guillotining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803 by William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton (1900)
"... Le Bel in chains—Prince of Leiningen—guillotining at Strasbourg—Death of Queen
of France—Whole families destroyed—Every one taking care for themselves. ..."
2. Glimpses of the French Revolution: Myths, Ideals, and Realities by John Goldworth Alger (1894)
"... guillotining—English Hostages—Girondin Deputies—Chantilly—Lyons—Mortality—If
Robespierre had triumphed. THE wholesale arrests in Paris in August 1792, ..."
3. History of the French Consulate, Under Napoleon Buonaparte: Being an by W[illiam Vincent] Barré (1804)
"Still, in spite of his threat, the white balls scarcely ex- , ceeded the black;
and thus it was decided that guillotining should prevail over shooting, ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"No guillotining, no ruthless Yankee tribunes retaliating for bygone tyranny by
double oppression ? Surely the reason is obvious—because there was no hunger ..."
5. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"Did you ever say to anybody that you dealt in naval stores, and that you should
think no more of cheating the king than of guillotining him ? ..."
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