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Sentences starting with hanging

Hanging upon hooks in the oaken wainscoting were the several pieces of a suit of shining steel armour, covered all over with beautiful designs exquisitely inlaid in gold. [5]
Hanging to the davit, he quietly, reassuringly, gave the order for righting the boat, virtually taking the command out of the hands of the first officer, who was trembling with nervousness. [11]
Hanging was the common punishment for felony, but traitors and many other offenders were drawn, hanged, boweled, and quartered; nobles who were traitors usually escaped with having their heads chopped off only. [4]

Sentences ending with hanging

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging. [5]
There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging. [5]
So the juree say he must be hanging. [11]
Lastly, if these plans failed, the executioner was to be drugged with liquor, his besetting weakness, on the eve of the hanging. [11]
On this the lady led him into an adjoining room, where the portrait of her adored daughter was hanging. [10]
Now, Tom," said he, "what is this fine tale about a hanging? [9]
You know--the gems--the hanging. [10]
They said they had seen enough of the stocks to know what a man's chance in them was, and they would never consent to enter them if they could compromise on a quick death by hanging. [5]
He stretched his eyes wide, and said: "What, wouldst have me let thee, of all men, escape and not hang with us, when thou'rt the very _cause_ of our hanging? [5]
But he suddenly closed them again and said indifferently: "At what price do you value your hanging? [10]

Sentences containing hanging two or more times

He would not be able to stop the hanging of Haman--the hanging of Rube Haman. [11]

More example sentences with the word hanging in them

The gems in your hanging stand for something more than that shining show. [10]
Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
If your mate would like to come to the hanging, fetch him along. [5]
There was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge. [5]
The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her. [2]
Most self-made Englishmen, with such a burly exterior and energy, and engaged in such pursuits, could not, to save themselves from hanging, have impressed her as Mr. Vandewaters did. [11]
I was sitting with my legs hanging out of the pilot-house window. [5]
His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. [2]
I do not wish it, Monsieur Doltaire, because hanging is a shameful death, and he is a gentle man, not a ruffian. [11]
That man--those weapons--I will not look at the hanging till he is gone. [10]
Gaining the outlet which he took to be the pass, he rode on again under over hanging walls. [13]
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]
From vaguely admiring what she looked at, she began to be critical; this and that could be changed to advantage; this shade of hanging was not harmonious; this light did not fall right. [4]
Around our hats were wound many folds of soft white muslin, with the ends hanging and flapping down our backs--an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. [5]
The great galleries were still thronged--though only with men, now; the bright colors that had made them look like hanging gardens were gone, with the ladies. [5]
I know you well, and that wound across your manly face, which adorns it like a purple badge of honor, was made by the sword now hanging at my side. [10]
The curious thing was that, while still this political matter was hanging fire, he painted with elation. [11]
Yesterday this room was not even intended for my use, thus the hanging must have been put up between our arrival and this morning. [10]
His white handkerchief was hanging out of his pocket behind, as usual on Sundays--accidentally. [5]
Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
Round her throat was fastened a necklace like a collar, made of pearls and costly stones, and hanging low down on her well-formed bosom. [10]
A wooden trough was disclosed hanging under a ledge of rock, and water dripped into it softly, slowly. [11]
In one corner was an ivy-covered well, with an antique iron gate, and the bucket, hanging on a hook inside the fern-grown hood, was an old wine-keg-- appropriate emblem for a smuggler's house. [11]
Janet opened the wardrobe, looked at the new blue suit hanging so neatly on its wire holder, hesitated, and closed the door again. [9]
I saw her walking along, hanging her head; the serving man carried the lantern before her, and the Bohemian was speaking close in her ear. [10]
Oldring appeared, and Venters had one glimpse of his great breadth and bulk, his gold-buckled belt with hanging guns, his high-top boots with gold spurs. [13]
They were of various ages and of many different nationalities, every one of them with the vague terror hanging over him or her. [6]
Before a fire upon a seat like a bedstead, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes and all the tayles hanging by. [4]
A woman stood upon a point of the great rock, a red robe hanging on her, her hair free over her shoulders, her finger pointing at the Intendant. [11]
As he walked up the shingle his thoughts were hanging about a cottage in the Place du Vier Prison. [11]
I was not unwilling to have more light in the apartment, and presently had lighted an astral lamp that stood on a table.--He pointed to a portrait hanging against the wall.--Look at her,--he said,--look at her! [6]
Her mother, artist unknown; flat, angular, hanging sleeves; parrot on fist. [6]
He wore an unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled shako on the back of his head. [2]
She 173 looked under the chair over which hung her clothes, even behind the dresses and the Indian deerskin cape hanging on the door. [11]
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]
Then she found two candles and lighted them, placing them on the mantel, and turning to the crasset hanging by its osier rings from a beam, slowly lighted it. [11]
Three or four touched me, and one pierced my hair and remained hanging in it with the feather at the end of the shaft. [10]
He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging his head. [2]
He was about to speak again; but at that moment two river-drivers--boon companions, who had been hanging about the door--urged him to come to the tavern. [11]
Thousands went out to meet him, as though he were the Saviour; they erected triumphal arches, even folks of my creed--no one thought of hanging back. [10]
He came up to me in the office, deferentially asked me if I would go into the parlor with him, and, pointing to something hanging on the wall, asked, 'What is that? [4]
When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar. [5]
It was delicious to be out of his reach, perfectly delicious, and made me feel good and thankful all up one side; but I was hanging there helpless and couldn't climb, and that made me feel perfectly wretched and miserable all down the other. [5]
But you never thought of hanging men for catching and selling wild horses, wild buffaloes, or wild bears. [7]
The rack was there, and the other instruments, and there was a smoky lantern or two hanging on the walls and helping to make the place look dim and dreadful. [5]
As we stood there, a scarlet figure came winding in and out among the giant stones, crosses hanging at her girdle. [11]
The ends of them were hanging over the boundary line everywhere like a fringe. [5]
He was wearing the white Horse Guard's cap and a military overcoat with a whip hanging over his shoulder by a thin strap. [2]
And there was the Truro Franchise Bill hanging over him, with only a week left of the session, and Lovejoy's and Duncan's men sitting so tight in their seats! [9]
Presently, out of the stillness, the Governor's voice was heard condemning me to death by hanging, thirty days hence, at sunrise. [11]
We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the skylight, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water. [5]
The horse, with the reins hanging loosely over the shafts, had strayed to the side of the driveway and was contentedly eating the shrubbery that lined it. [9]
I have had the portraits framed for a long time, waiting till my aunt gets everything ready for hanging them up in the parlor. [5]
Balashev took out the packet containing the Emperor's letter and laid it on the table (made of a door with its hinges still hanging on it, laid across two barrels). [2]
Yes, there in the north-west was gathering a dark- blue haze, hanging like small filmy curtains in the sky. [11]
The only reason the Mistress could give, when she rearranged her apartment, for hanging a picture in what seemed the most inappropriate place, was that it had never been there before. [4]
He smiled at the lizards hanging on the foundation stones, he paused to dip his finger in the basin of a fountain, he eyed good-humouredly the beggars--old pensioners of the late Dakoon--seated in the shade with outstretched hands. [11]
Mahommed Ibrahim took the little tin cup hanging by the tap, half filled it, drank it off, and noiselessly put the cup back again. [11]
When at last the lecturer came he sat down informally on the table with one foot hanging in the air and grinned, too, at her bantering but complimentary introduction. [9]
You know what the jailer said to the criminal who was hanging on a reprieve: 'Rope deferred maketh the heart sick. [11]
The light of the hanging lamp was full on it. [11]
Morbid expectation of the hanging had for them a gruesome diversion. [11]
Yesterday evening, after the buying of the hanging, he had yielded to his mother's request that he should escort the widow Susannah home. [10]
The man, whom the baron had called the fencing-master Allertssohn, had just perceived that the "Glippers" cloaks were hanging by the fire, while his friend's and his own were flung on a bench. [10]
It happens, therefore, that there is great sympathy with the career of the lawbreakers, many people are hanging on them for support, and among them the so-called criminal lawyers. [4]
You should know that hanging the invaders of Jersey would have been butchery. [11]
At the time that Elie Mattingley, in Jersey, was awaiting hanging on the Mont es Pendus, and writing his letter to Carterette concerning the stolen book of church records, in a town of Brittany the Reverend Lorenzo Dow lay dying. [11]
It missed his temple, but caught the rim of his straw hat, carrying it off his head, and crashed into a lantern hanging against the wall, putting out the light. [11]
It had a table hanging like a lid from the wall, a stone for making tortillas, a mortar for grinding red peppers, a crucifix on the wall, a short sword, a huge pistol, a pair of rusty stirrups, and several chairs. [11]
Over the fire swings an iron crane, with a row of pot-hooks of all lengths hanging from it. [4]
She took only such things as she needed, and left her dinner-gowns hanging in the closets. [9]
Hodder took in, subconsciously, that the house was a dingy grey, of three stories and a Mansard roof, with a bay window on the yard side, and a fly-blown sign, "Rooms to Rent" hanging in one window. [9]
I have behaved strangely, nay unbecomingly, and now that which is hard to endure is hanging over me, something strange-which will perhaps drive you from me back to your mother. [10]
It was a strange, silent ride through the stinging heat to Les Iles, the brown dust hanging behind us like a cloud, to settle slowly on the wayside shrubbery. [9]
Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. [2]
It was a still night, I remember, of great beauty, with a wisp of a moon hanging over the forest line, the air heavy with odors and vibrant with a thousand insect tones. [9]
But scarcely had Stephanus felt the touch of the Gaul's fingers when he started as struck by lightning, and flung himself with a hoarse cry on his enemy who was hanging on the edge of the wall. [10]
Every man has some vice or other, if it's only hanging on to virtue too tight. [11]
She was walking slow, and her head was bent down, and her wings hanging limp and droopy; and she looked ever so tired, and was crying, poor thing! [5]
Her own mother slept on, in the corner of the room, unconscious of the terrible verdict hanging in the balance. [11]
Look, Isabella; this sleeve is hanging by two strings, and the elbow is peering out of the window. [10]
There was the skin of one hanging upon a tree by the route we would take in the morning, a buster, he skinned him yesterday. [4]
On the fourth side the pulpit, with a huge, dusty sounding-board hanging over it. [6]
He was a short stout man, and the sweat streamed down his face as he stood under the blazing sun to sketch a fearful picture of the monstrous doom which was hanging over the city and its inhabitants. [10]
In her dreams she saw the hanging lamp, the moving panel, the little cupboard, the fatal paper. [11]
Without a word, she hoisted the satchels into the hanging shelf, and took possession of that lower berth. [5]
Karay was a shaggy old dog with a hanging jowl, famous for having tackled a big wolf unaided. [2]
The governor, whose sensitive nerves had been liable to such attacks of panic ever since an exiled Greek had once attempted to murder him, now soon recovered his composure, and looked with great admiration at the hanging round which the family were standing. [10]
Yet I have seen hanging in those plains cities all blue and red with millions of lights showing, and voices, voices everywhere, like the singing of soft masses. [11]
And now the secrets of this life hanging on a thread must surely come out. [6]
Looking now, he saw that the shutter, which had been pulled off to bear the body away, was hanging there just as he had placed it, with seven of its slats broken and a dark stain in one corner. [11]
Swinging round, he saw Magor thrusting a handspike under a huge timber, hanging at the top of the incline. [11]
The Avocat's heart sank within him, for he saw that a life was hanging in the balance. [11]
She soon shortened sail, and went so leisurely that presently our light barge drew alongside, and I perceived Mr. Zachariah Hood, a merchant of the town, returning from London, hanging over her rail. [9]
He wore a ruffled shirt, a large seal-ring, a standing collar of obsolete pattern, and a checkered neckerchief with the ends hanging down. [5]
Anatole kept on refilling Pierre's glass while explaining that Dolokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. [2]
Jo Portugais had recognised the voice--that of Charley Steele the lawyer who had saved him from hanging years ago. [11]
Racllyi = hanging rack from the rafters of a kitchen. [11]
I have a picture hanging in my library, a lithograph, of which many of my readers may have seen copies. [6]
A good many people were hurt, some of them seriously, and among them Philip Sterling was found bent across the seat, insensible, with his left arm hanging limp and a bleeding wound on his head. [5]

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