deathsman

And for that shag-haird Slave in the house, he will be thy deathsman, if hee but understand that thou makest any enquirie after thy money.

The Decameron 2004

A deathsman of the soul Robert Greene called him, Stephen said.

Ulysses 2003

-- A deathsman of the soul Robert Greene called him, Stephen said.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Judge, axe, and deathsman veiled! and my poor eyes

Poems Victor Hugo 1843

From his arms thou shalt start with horror, as from those of thy wronged father's betrayer, -- perchance his deathsman!

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

From his arms thou shalt start with horror, as from those of thy wronged father's betrayer, -- perchance his deathsman!

The Last of the Barons — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I should see thee once more before the deathsman blinds me.

Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Nearer and nearer press the populace, -- another moment, and the deathsman is defrauded.

Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Yet our solemn rites deceived us not; the prophet-shadows, dark with terror and red with blood, still foretold that, even in the dungeon, and before the deathsman, I, -- I had the power to save them both!"

Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

As he approached the city, all that festive and gallant scene he had quitted seemed to him like a dream; a vision of the gardens and bowers of an enchantress, from which he woke abruptly as a criminal may wake on the morning of his doom to see the scaffold and the deathsman; -- so much did each silent and lonely step into the funeral city bring back his bewildered thoughts at once to life and to death.

Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838