 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pagine
...grooves; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg : to that peg is fastened a cord, which the executioner cutting, the axe falls, and docs the aflair effectually, without suffering .rhe unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of M n.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg : to that peg is fastened a cord, which the...cutting, the axe falls, and does the affair effectually, without suffering the unli 'ipy criminal to undergo a repetition of strokes, as has been the case in... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, sup^ ported at the very summit with a peg : to that peg is fastened a cord, which the...cutting, the axe falls, and does the affair effectually, without suffering the unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of strokes, as has been the case in... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg : to that peg is fastened a cord, which the...cutting, the axe falls, and does the affair effectually, without suffering the unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of strokes, as has been the case in... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1824 - 612 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a «harp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit wnh a peg : to that peg is fastened a cord, which the...cutting, the axe falls, and does the affair effectually, without suffering the unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of strokes, as has been the case in... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1824 - 528 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, wiih avast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg; to that peg is fastened a cord, which the executioner cutting, the axe falls, and dors the affair effectually, without suffering the unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of strokes,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg ; to that peg is fastened a cord, which the executioner cutting, the axe falls, and decapitates the culprit.' Sax. jylt, originally signifying the fine or mulct paid for an offence ;... | |
 | 1840 - 676 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg ; to that peg is fastened a cord, which the...cutting, the axe falls, and does the affair effectually, without suffering the unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of strokes, as has been the case in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 432 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a cord, which the executioner cutting, the axe falls, and does the the Guillotine of modern France. He mounted the scaffold with great firmness, and embracing the engine... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 434 pagine
...grooves ; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a va>t weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a cord, which the executioner cutting, the axe falls, and does the CHAP. LIII.] EXECUTION OF ARGYLE. 281 the Guillotine of modern France. He mounted the scaffold with... | |
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It is in form of a painter's easel and about ten feet high ; at four feet from the bottom is a cross bar, on which the felon lays his head, which is kept down by another placed above. In the inner edges of the frame are grooves ; in these is placed a... 
