Also certain money passing from my hand to yours. Failing the letter, a long, hideously humiliating sojourn in the Temple prison for your wife, a prolonged trial and the guillotine as a happy release! I would add, the same thing for yourself, only that I will do you the justice to admit that you probably do not care."
"Nay! a grave mistake, Monsieur. I do care ... vastly care, I assure you ... and would seriously object to ending my life on your demmed guillotine ... a nasty, uncomfortable thing, I should say ...英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》
And off his head comes!'
The billet fell as he spoke, and he threw it into a basket. `I call myself the Samson of the firewood guillotine. See here again! Loo, loo, loo; Loo, loo, loo! And off her head comes! Now, a child. Tickle, tickle; Pickle, pickle! And off its head comes.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
I see one thing,' said Carton. `I hold another card, Mr. Barsad. Impossible, here in raging Paris, with Suspicion filling the air, for you to outlive denunciation, when you are in communication with another aristocratic spy of the same antecedents as yourself who, moreover, has the mystery about him of having feigned death and come to life again! A plot in the prisons, of the foreigner against the Republic. A strong card--a certain Guillotine card! Do you play?'
`No!' returned the spy. `I throw up.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
It was ten o'clock at night when he stood before the prison of La Force, where she had stood hundreds of times. A little wood-sawyer, having closed his shop, was smoking his pipe at his shop-door. `Good night, citizen,' said Sydney Carton, pausing in going by; for, the man eyed him inquisitively. `Good night, citizen.'
`How goes the Republic?'
`You mean the Guillotine. Not ill. Sixty-three to-day. We shall mount to a hundred soon. Samson and his men complain sometimes, of being exhausted.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
"We were just going to supper," grumbled Magloire to himself, as he went out. "The devil seize the Aristocrats! They're all in such a hurry to get to the guillotine that they won't even give a man time to eat his victuals in peace!"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
And I will build this case into a fucking guillotine and drop the blade.美剧 · 《Billions》
One whiff of reform and she hears the rattle of the guillotine.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
The next thing you know, there's a guillotine in Trafalgar Square.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I don't want to put our necks out there just to have the guillotine fall.美剧 · 《House of Cards》