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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Feeley looked like a man being led to the guillotine .
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In fact, they wanted an even more severe limitation on politicians, but Willie Brown had the only guillotine .
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Its words function like a guillotine .
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Only five clauses of the Football Spectators Bill had been considered before the guillotine was introduced.
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Provincial guillotines and scaffolds were dismantled and those not exhibited in museums were broken up and scrapped.
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Where the guillotine improved on the Halifax design was the inbuilt facility to position the victim accurately and quickly in the machine.