1) guillotine. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...to behead the victim below. 2. An instrument, such as a paper cutter, similar in action to a guillotine. Inflected forms: guilˇloˇtined, guilˇloˇtinˇing, guilˇloˇtines1....
2) guillotine. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...guillotine (GIL-uh-teen, GEE-uh-teen) A machine designed for beheading people quickly and with minimal pain. The guillotine, which used a large falling knife blade,...
3) Furies of the Guillotine (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The tricoteuses-that is, Frenchwomen who attended the Convention knitting, and encouraged the Commune in all their most bloodthirsty excesses. Never in any age or...
4) Maiden. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A machine resembling the guillotine for beheading criminals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; brought to Scotland by the Regent Morton from Halifax, in...
5) Mary Anne or Marianne. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A slang name for the guillotine. (See below.) 1...
6) 31954. Kafka, Franz. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:31954 QUOTATION:A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. ATTRIBUTION:Franz Kafka (1883-1924), German novelist, short-story writer. Shorter...
7) maiden. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...1a. An unmarried girl or woman. b. A virgin. 2. A machine resembling the guillotine, used in Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries to behead criminals. 3. Sports...
8) 53495. Shaw, George Bernard. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:53495 QUOTATION:The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. ATTRIBUTION:George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright,...
9) 36999. Luce, Clare Boothe. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:36999 QUOTATION:Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. ATTRIBUTION:Clare Boothe...
10) 795. Clare Boothe Luce. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...Luce QUOTATION: Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. ATTRIBUTION: Newsweek 24 Jan...
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