outkilled

Updated: May 28, 2025

I wonder for how many lives my Lord Hopton took the lease of his body. First Stamford slew him, then Waller outkilled that half a bar; and yet it is thought the sullen corpse would scarce bleed were both these manslayers never so near it. The same goes of a Dutch headsman, that he would do his office with so much ease and dexterity, that the head after execution should stand upon the shoulders.

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century