verdugo

EN The warning stayed in his brain all the way to Sacher's: after nine o'clock the streets are very empty, and he would turn his head at every padding step coming up the street behind him, as though that third man whom they had protected so ruthlessly were following him like an executioner.
GL A advertencia rondoulle na cabeza ata que chegou ao Sacher. Xa desde as nove, as rúas estaban case vougas; voltaba a cabeza cada vez que escoitaba unha pisada xorda tras del: sentíase como se aquel terceiro home, ao que tan fortemente protexían, o estivera perseguindo como un verdugo.
Fonte: TER (1273)

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executor

EN Not to be too much at leisure is indeed often an advantage: on no occasion of their lives do men generally speak better than on the scaffold and with the executioner at their side.
GL Non estar demasiado ocioso é, de feito, a miúdo unha vantaxe. En ningunha ocasión das súas vidas falan mellor os homes en xeral que no cadafalso, e co executor ó seu carón.
Fonte: LET (425)

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