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Sentences ending with gallows

Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows. [11]
The assault resulted unfortunately for young Hirschhorn, who led it; he met with a shameful death on the gallows. [10]
Another had "here two days slept and three nights lain awake," on account of this same "Dr. K." In one place was a picture of Dr. K. hanging on a gallows. [5]
The rest of the comical ornaments and the thought of the nimble adventurer, who must have climbed up to fasten them, formed a glaring and offensive contrast to the caricature of the gallows. [10]
You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! [5]
If that had happened, he himself might have gone to the gallows. [11]
High you will go, and high you will end; as the friend of a king--or on the gallows. [10]
It was the gallows! [5]
And hear ye further, and proclaim it: whoso speaketh of this his distemper worketh against the peace and order of these realms, and shall to the gallows! [5]
I do not fear you nor your men nor your gallows. [11]

More example sentences with the word gallows in them

Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
My pious son will not let the gallows become empty in this land of heretical exaltation. [10]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
There certainly never were more gods than there are now; and among those of whom the myths tell us things strange enough to bring those who worship them into contempt, or to the gallows, is the countless swarm of good and evil daimons. [10]
The gallows has waited for you long enough! [10]
The gallows Herr Van Bronkhorst had erected for men like you, is still standing by the Blue Stone. [10]
He would go to jail or to the gallows to put you there, if you do not pay. [11]
At the signal three men sprang up like magic out of the bowels of the boat beneath them, and scurried over the side; three as ripe knaves as ever cheated stocks and gallows, but simple knaves, unlike their master. [11]
More than eighteen thousand worthy citizens have come to the gallows through his 'ad patibulum. [10]
If, like Haman, they should hang upon the gallows of their own building, I shall not be among the mourners for their fate. [7]
He had built the Manor House, he had put up his gallows, he had his vassals, he had been made a lord. [11]
Just previous to the day of his arrest, he had given a fearful beating to one of his followers; but such was his influence over them that the man wept bitterly at the gallows, and begged for his life with all his power. [5]
At this point the chronicle becomes less frank and chatty, and closes abruptly by saying that the old voyager went to see his gallows perform on the first white man ever hanged in America, and while there received injuries which terminated in his death. [5]
He would bluster sometimes, and string a peasant up by the heels, but his gallows was never used; and, what was much in the minds of the people, the Cure did not refuse the woman the sacrament. [11]
The body of some poor wretch who had swung upon the gallows, was probably conveyed by night to some lonely dwelling at the outskirts of the village, and there by the light of flaring torches hastily dissected by hands that trembled over the unwonted task. [3]
It is long since I touched a pen (3 1/2 years), and I was intending to continue this happy holiday to the gallows, but--there are things that could beguile me to break this blessed Sabbath. [5]
Deeply as her sentiments rebelled, here, too, Barbara had become his preserver; for when the Bloody Council had sentenced him to the gallows, she had succeeded, with great difficulty, through her manifold relations to the heads of the Spanish party, in obtaining his pardon. [10]
The war is now to them the gallows of Haman, which they built for us, and on which they are doomed to be hanged themselves. [7]
In Paris, the night of St. Bartholomew, a year after her son had chastised the Moslems at Lepanto, dealt the French heretics a deep, almost incurable wound, and in the Netherlands there were not gallows enough to hang the misguided fanatics. [10]
It's little I like leadin' a fellow- creature towards the gallows, or puttin' a bullet into him if he won't come. [11]
I swore that if they fetched me to the gallows to celebrate their Noel, other lives than mine should go to keep me company on the dark trail. [11]
But hear me: if I ever see you again, my gallows shall end you straight. [11]
Terror and rage had sealed the old countess's lips, but now they parted in the hoarse cry: "You deserve the wheel and the gallows, not the honourable block! [10]
He'll want a gibbet and a gallows next. [11]
Laws and the gallows could not pay the debt that was owing to me! [5]
That is long enough for any farewell--even on the gallows. [11]
But rather than do the smallest thing which might savor of treachery--ten times rather the axe or the gallows! [10]
They had not died by the gallows or the sword or the bullet, but they had died as commanded, and none had questioned his decree. [11]
He was vaguely conscious of the great change in him, and Barry Whalen, who, with all his faults, would have gone to the gallows for him, was ever vividly conscious of it, and helplessly resented the change. [11]
He built a commodious jail and put up a gallows, and to his dying day he claimed with satisfaction that he had had a more restraining and elevating influence on the Indians than any other reformer that ever, labored among them. [5]
He built a commodious jail and put up a gallows, and to his dying day he claimed with satisfaction that he had had a more restraining and elevating influence on the Indians than any other reformer that ever labored among them. [5]
People called the charcoal-burner a poacher, and he owed his ill-name of "Hangemarx" to the circumstance that once, though long ago, he had adorned a gallows. [10]
It had a chapel and a gallows. [11]
Yes, they did; by pressure and the gallows they made such a clean deal with them that there hasn't been a witch and hardly a halter in our family from that day to this, and that is one hundred and eighty-nine years. [5]
And you a British officer mewed up to kick your heels till gallows day! [11]
Standing with my back to the mast, beating them off with a pike, visions of an English prison-ship, of an English gallows, came before me. [9]
The crime of Arrowhead, the gallows waiting for him, seemed very far away. [11]
Baker was "imprisoned"--in a parlor; and he could not have been more visited, or more overwhelmed with attentions, if he had committed six murders and then --while the gallows was preparing--"got religion"--after the manner of the holy Charles Peace, of saintly memory. [5]
Our master secured a good place for us near the gallows. [5]

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