cremator

Updated: May 1, 2025

Do you mean to say that some constable or cremator, some sort of first hangman, would have come to him and taken him by the nape of his neck, and cut his throat, just because he was sixty-eight years old? I can't believe that anybody would have done it." "But the duke is a man." "Yes, he's a man, no doubt." "If he committed murder, he would be hanged in spite of his dukedom."

Anthony Trollope - The Fixed Period