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Executioner 94: I made notes [...] and when on the following days I went off-beam, the correction always came in the same words .at off (the) beam (adj.) under beam, n.3
Executioner 94: I made notes [...] and when on the following days I went off-beam, the correction always came in the same words . Executioner 88: The train biffed me out into Euston Station at six o’clock in the morning.at biff, v.
Executioner 200: Once I had to teach my own assistant the respect necessary for the dead [...] I blistered him until he was white in the face.at blister, v.
Executioner 22: He signed the pledge, went teetotal for five weeks, met some friends and broke out again.at break out, v.
Executioner 190: I do not believe any man who has done it [i.e. judicial execution] and says he doesn’t get butterflies [...] before the action starts.at butterflies (in one’s stomach), n.
Executioner 190: I do not think he was needling me, but I thought he had his spade out again. He was digging.at dig, v.3
(con. 1922) Executioner 48: I was standing at the corner of the street with the rest of the lads, passing round the dimps, or cigarette ends.at dimp, n.
Executioner 118: Executions in Scotland were rare. [...] They were all getting reprieved, there was no-one going down.at go down, v.
Executioner 153: [H]e introduced me to a young CID officer in the Mets.at Met, n.
Executioner 104: [I]n the South [of Ireland] the risk of a mobbing was much greater.at mob, v.1
Executioner 86: [E]ven if I had had a drink, I should have had the nous not to show it.at nous, n.
(ref. to 18C) Executioner 55: In the old days of the Tyburn gallows, of course, prisoners were turned off a dozen at a time and allowed to strangle.at turn off, v.1
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