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Sentence Examples Careening into the cobblestone street, the blade looked like a guillotine crashing down on its victim. Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine. There are plenty of human-interest stories and recipes, plus the obligatory tales of gobblers that encounter or evade the guillotine. Deal 12 noble cards face-up in a row and put the cardboard guillotine at the start. He underwent an 18-hour operation at Withington Hospital in Manchester after his fingers were chopped off in a guillotine accident. So I'm just sitting here waiting for it all to print, guillotine and double-sided sticky tape at the ready. A guillotine was consequently developed that could behead twenty-five persons at a time. This was also the spot where more than 1000 aristocrats were executed at the guillotine during the French Revolution. That revolutionary dawn proved less than auspicious after many Frenchmen died under the blade of the guillotine. The fact that government used the guillotine during the committee stage certainly did not contribute to any intelligent cross-bench discussion. The real possibility of a civil war loomed over the citizens of the Empire, like the shadow cast from the blade of a guillotine waiting to fall. A moment later there was a thud as Meghan struck the side of the guillotine, and the blade wobbled with a faint squealing sound. It looks like I have bats in my belfry with that Halloween decoration hanging on the guillotine. They were handsomely backed in the convolutions of the plot by the rest of the cast, all of whom escaped the guillotine which loomed behind. As a child, she had dreamed dreams of the Reign of Terror, of Louis XVI at the guillotine, and of the chaos and bloodshed of battle. Discussion on the measure was severely curtailed, after the government set a 10 pm deadline, or guillotine, for voting on the legislation. All week, the government was making frequent use of the parliamentary device known as the guillotine. In 1976, Ranucci was the last man in France to face the guillotine for a crime he always swore he did not commit. As we know, this emanation of virtue would in time cause Robespierre and his followers to lose their heads under the severe and inflexible blade of the guillotine. As well as providing enormous publicity for the guillotine, the French Revolution did a bang-up job of sorting out the various weights and measures used in France. Show More Sentences The media are the modern day equivalent of the old crones sitting with their knitting needles around the guillotine during the beheadings of the French Revolution. When a large number of bricks must be cut, you might want to rent an electric power saw adapted with a masonry blade or a manual cutting machine called a guillotine. Harry made British medical history in 1999 by becoming the first eight-finger replant after his hands were caught in a hydraulic paper guillotine. Can we expect the use of the guillotine in parliamentary debates to be abandoned by this government allowing those debates as much time as they need? Yet again we will see a bill referred to the Primary Production Committee, with a guillotine applied to it on the very day the Minister introduces it into the House. Shear: The hydraulic guillotine shear slices heavy pieces of steel including I-beams, ship plate, pipe and railroad car sides. Under a guillotine clause, such a breach would annul six other economic agreements struck at the time. A vulgar woman with a lustful expression on her face lowers and raises the blade of the guillotine by pulling at the rope. Until 1939 the guillotine was used just outside but after that all the executions took place here so that the whole prison knew about them. Reduce obsolete and inefficient regulations through regulatory guillotine procedures. Lumps of masonry fall to the ground, and every now and again a glass sunscreen slices through the air like a guillotine. The guillotine provided a comparable treatment cost, but left large branch stubs. I know you are forced to cut off our speeches with the precision of a guillotine and I would not want you to have to cut me off in mid-sentence. This can be achieved, either by cutting with a mechanical guillotine or angle grinder, or by using a chisel and hammer. When the guillotine dropped on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it might have been thought that France had abandoned all trappings of aristocracy. Counsel for the Member of Parliament yesterday attempted to guillotine the judgement passed on the appellant suggesting that his client had been given a raw deal. The main approaches to execution since the guillotine have been hanging, the firing squad, and the electric chair. In this process, which is much faster than that using guillotine cutters, tow is dyed, finished, cut, dried, screened, and bagged in one continuous operation. The line clicked, sounding more like a guillotine to Morales. Only hours later, the court carried out that sentence by guillotine. Show More Sentences So he built the guillotine using a hand axe and a sprung hinge, waited until his wife and son went out, and used it to sever his hand. And then, as you stand where the guillotine once stood, alongside the last vespasienne in Paris, you'll sense the tangy whiff of what was for so long the stuff of Parisian nightmares. The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate. Today, bills are scheduled according to a Timetable Motion, which the whole House agrees in advance, negating the use of a guillotine. The Revolutionary Tribunal summarily condemned thousands of people to death by the guillotine, while mobs beat other victims to death. The frequency of guillotine executions in Paris now rose from on average three a day to an average of 29 a day. The industry is also continuing to study fuel channel rupture behaviour, especially the conditions that could lead to calandria tube failure and pressure tube guillotine rupture. In cold conditions, PVC-C should be stored at room temperature for a sufficient period prior to die-cutting and cutting with guillotine shears so that a certain amount of flexibility is achieved. As we began the tour properly in the Cour d'Honneur, the former entrance to the prison, I asked where the executions had taken place and where the guillotine had been used. Some of Wollstoecraft's French friends lost their heads to the guillotine as the Jacobins set out to annihilate all of their enemies. The electric eye of the entrance doors watched and the doors whooshed opened and closed like a guillotine. The guillotine and the electric chair are symbols of the modern age. Following his execution, his wife received a bill for 3,000 reichsmarks for the wear and tear on the guillotine. His delicate pen-and-ink drawings vivify nightmares — a rocking-horse guillotine slices up little men, a tiger-faced snake slithers through a wasteland, maidens are molested by an ape and a giant squid. I have never been able to observe the seconds hand gliding over a dial without thinking of these moving lines penned by Chénier in 1794, almost at the foot of the guillotine. When reaching the first floor, visitors come face to face with the last operating guillotine, which keeps alive the still contentious debate about the rights and wrongs of the death penalty. Lyon marches with its Phrygian caps, playing cards for which the city was a specialist and even the blade of the guillotine of the Place des Terreaux. Its heart is in the French Revolution, but so is the guillotine. He was reported to be considering introducing a guillotine motion to the debate, which would have been an unprecedented move for the House of Lords. And with just four minutes 38 seconds on the clock, Etim pinned his man on the canvas and landed a guillotine choke hold to force a technical submission. Show More Sentences France developed the guillotine for this reason in the final years of the 18th century, while Britain banned drawing and quartering in the early 19th century. Examples from Classical Literature Anti-republicans can only expiate their folly under the age of the guillotine. He saw Jeanne, and only Jeanne, standing on the tumbril and being led to the guillotine. He did not quite see the connection between the bon-bons and the guillotine. Oatmeal is recommended as a bait for guillotine traps made with wooden base and trigger plate. You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the guillotine. Not merely the cannons and rifles, but even the guillotine and the gallows were at rest. It was his fate to escape the gallows in England and the guillotine in France. Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France. When the guillotine stops working, the assignat, losing its official value, falls to its real value. Twenty-one in all were condemned on the 10 Thermidor and taken in carts to the guillotine. When she hears an angry mob approaching, she looks down to see her husband in the tumbrel taking him to the guillotine. The tumbril and the guillotine would not have made her weep. She was removed to the Conciergerie, the antechamber of the guillotine. From morning until night, rush'd down the clanking guillotine. The DS was scheduled for the chop the next year so it was natural that the poor SM was a tumbril ride from the guillotine. They were fugitives from the noose, from the garrote, from the guillotine. It was now half-past three, and the guillotine was nearly ready. What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them. I will have my hands full keeping your neck from beneath the guillotine. When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine. Find more words! 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