Sentence examples for before the executioner from inspiring English sources

"As with so many before him, his decision to take a stand against the Soviet system would ultimately bring him before the executioner in a darkened Moscow subbasement".

Even before the executioner aimed at Anne's delicate neck, Ms. Bordo reminds us, critics were zeroing in on her physical flaws, which went far beyond the small "duckies" Henry praised in his love letters.

I managed to catch only a glimpse of Taha's face before the executioner placed an oatmeal-colored sack over his head and body, but I shall never forget his expression: His eyes were defiant; his mouth firm.

"Today they [my opponents] are celebrating because they have managed to bring an adversary – an enemy – before the executioner's squad.

SHENYANG, China — Zhang Jing was sitting on her bed, describing the final wrenching moments with her husband before the executioner's arrival, when she noticed a newly delivered funereal bouquet of white lilies.

A few weeks before The Executioner's Song appeared, Mailer persuaded his publishers to repackage it as a novel, or rather a "true life novel", along the lines of Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood.

How did she stay calm as she waited for her turn to stand before the executioners?

But, before his appointment with the executioner, three other men confessed to the murders.

Before getting to Wiesenthal, the executioner put down his weapon and went to pray.

Or Henry VIII admiring a Holbein portrait right before ordering another innocent to the executioner's axe.

As the historical legend goes, the French Queen Marie Antoinette became immortal when she uttered, "Then let them eat cake," before her fateful appointment with the executioner at the guillotine.