guillotined

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• Images of maskless students in Georgia went viral, for example, while teachers brought handmade coffins and a guillotine to a protest in New York City.

• The pace of executions slowed, but did not stop, although now former supporters of the regime were more likely to be the victims of the guillotine.

• We were talking and we said, we should probably write a finale for this season that could also be a series finale … We really felt like we were making the show with a guillotine above our necks.

• Coca-Cola is trying to cut underperforming brands, and even modern ones like Odwalla juice and regional sodas like Delaware Punch are poised to fall prey to the cost-cutting guillotine.

• The main approaches to execution since the guillotine have been hanging, the firing squad, and the electric chair.

• Wasn't the original name of “The Queen is Dead” “Margaret on the Guillotine”?

• There was actually a song called “Margaret on the Guillotine.”

• True, the great majority of the old bulls survived the post, revolutionary guillotine.

• Its heart is in the French Revolution, but so is the guillotine.

• Promotion came speedily when the guillotine cleared the way in the higher ranks by removing the incompetent and unfortunate.

• But France had had enough of the Terror, and knew that she could evolve her safety by other means than that of the guillotine.

• The question between the Girondist and the Jacobin was, "Who shall lie down on the guillotine?"

• The young ladies were all arrested, fourteen in number, and taken in a cart to the guillotine.

• Hence the Jacobins had serious cause to fear a reaction, and determined to silence their voices by the slide of the guillotine.