Theheadman entered the neighbor's house with his dog, and all the women ran into the rooms and closed the doors, and some of the curious little boys who wanted to see theheadman's dog with their own eyes wisened up after the dag walked in, and they hurried up the yard's trees like cats.
But then Nash speaks to the schoolheadman on Josie's behalf and persuades him to admit my youngest son.
2005, Narain Roop Sonker,Poisonous Roots, page20:
TheHeadman and the Principal of the school have taken care that the children do not learn anything and that education does not make any progress in this region.
2015, Piyush Arora,My Childhood Love Story, page38:
Teachers were in the playground and our schoolHeadman, Mrs. Rupali Chandra was on the stage.
2007, Decease Release, “Decease Release”, in Robert S. Miola, editor,Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources, page197:
Myheadman cast me in a blissful swoon, His axe cut off my cares from cumbered breast.
2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore,Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page428:
The execution was horribly botched by a clumsyheadman: 'You're hurting me,' cried the victim as the executioner hacked at his neck sixteen times until he just climbed onto the unfortunate's back and sawed through his spinal column as if he was sacrificing a sheep.
2020, Beata Gontarczyk-Krampe,Notmsparker's Second Berlin Companion:
Their axe was a replica of one which belonged to Magdeburg'sheadman —famous executioner Wilhelm Riedel.
