Gibbet

Usage examples of gallows.

When Orsini attempted to execute the sentence of death on the Emperor of the French, in obedience to the order of the Carbonari, of which the Emperor was a member, he was, if the theory of the origin of government in compact be true, no more an assassin than was the officer who executed on the gallows the rebel spies and incendiaries Beal and Kennedy.

In the centre of the page was a picture of a tall man with shoulders wide as the crosstree of a gallows, and a bald cannon-ball head that shone in the bright African sunshine.

He had stood beside Elbryan and Avelyn when that surely put him in line for the gallows.

She instructed me to say, however, in case you should ask, that what she previously knew could obtain your resignation, that what Giles knew could stretch you on the gallows, and that now she knows even more than Giles!

One Sunday Malania came home from church in her new dress and her new boots, and announced to her mistress that the gallows were being erected, and that the hangman was expected from Moscow on Wednesday.

Christian blode, lorde Materna cam that autumn to Danczk for to wreak al manner of fiercenesse, and eke to hank Claus Bartusch by the neck, at which tyme he set vp his passyng styffe peter for a gallows, whereat wondyrment was of alle the robboures and marchants.

I aim to trounce the local oystermen in the regatta, Elliott said, hooking his thumbs into his white gallowses.

American metropolis of the predynastic epoch his thoughts are cluttered with images of the gallows and electricity, slow evisceration and constant pain.

Phelippes, on solving it, immediately endorsed it with the gallows mark.

On gallows hangeth cold and dead Beneath the sky On gibbet high, They in a noose did swing him.

Christian sign, there is much reference to Mr. Snagsby whether he means Carrots, or the Colonel, or Gallows, or Young Chisel, or Terrier Tip, or Lanky, or the Brick.

I saw the gallows before me, for nobody would lend me the money, and they would not wait for my remittance from Venice to reach me.

Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had my own thoughts as to the similarity between his destiny and mine, but I did not reveal them.

His only fear was that they would not lead him to the murderer soon enough to save Roger Pawling from the gallows.

Hereupon four other shavelings entered, dragging before the confessor a poor wretch, who came about as willingly as he would to the gallows.