gallows

I am going to do a bit of play- acting, the bottom ground of which is just exactly as serious as the gallows for the pair of us .

Here I was doing dirty work for three men that I looked down upon, and one of whom, at least, should have hung upon a gallows.

Jack, that compass. That's all I need. Elizabeth is in danger. We're all arrested for trying to help you. She faces the gallows!

My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon- thence, peradventure, to the gallows!

Such a carefully noble girl, was the church, the court stigmatized as "witches" , "murderers" , and was sentenced to the gallows.

If it weren't so tragic, the current European crisis would be funny, in a gallows-humor sort of way.

Henry Wirz, led to the gallows with a black robe draped over his shoulders, paid for all these events with his own life.

When the sun went down, they got out of the forest, and before them in the open country stood the gallows .

Fagin was arrested on the gallows after, Middlesex in the slip in the escape strangled by his own rope.

It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to DIE upon the gallows.

On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air.

gallow Traditionally, there used to be 13 steps leading up the gallows.

They did not send an innocent man to the gallows.

There was a gust of wind over the hilltop , and the old gallows fell down right on the horse's neck.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say.

"A gallows erected on an eminence admonished the offenders of the fate that awaited them" (William Hickling Prescott).

It happened that at the top of a hill a gallows had been set up at a cross-roads long ago.

You see what I mean about the situation being funny in a gallows-humor fashion?

So was the black, horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows .

In the old days, before the invention of the gallows, criminals were hanged from the top rung of a ladder.

Ah! Could what I hear be the yelping of the cold night wind, or the hanged man giving forth a sigh on the gallows fork.

a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

He is one of the greatest ruffians who ever cheated the gallows.

[shot of feet coming through gallows floor] Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended.

There's a reason it's often a reaction to an uncomfortable situation, and that we have dark or gallows humor.

With so much bad news in the workplace, gallows humor is making a comeback.

One of them said to the others, "If we are caught we shall be hanged on the gallows, how shall we manage it? "

Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows.

[shot of feet coming through gallows floor] Right to legal counsel, suspended.

If I shake and tremble, as we pass the gallows, don't you mind, but hurry on.

Mr. Singh visited the condemned prisoners afterwards and offered to save them from the gallows.

A video showing Saddam being taunted on the gallows has spread on the Internet and by mobile telephone since Saturday's execution.

But psychologists say that gallows humor can be an important way to relieve stress.

Then again, another popular theory is that a fear of walking under a ladder has to do with its resemblance to a medieval gallows.

Go through the underpass under Gallows Road then turn right at the first stoplight onto Williams Drive.

People die over that. People have gone to the gallows and concentration camps over the issue of who they are.

Ribbentrop mounted the gallows in the execution chamber of the Nuremberg prison.

Talk of revolution and mock gallows aside, the Republican street party was hardly a Cromwellian affair.

[shot of feet coming through gallows floor] Right to habeus corpus, suspended.

the gallows' welding machine with submerged arc welding technology is produced.

New witnesses have cast doubt on some of the evidence that sent the 19-year-old to the gallows.

Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.

gallows humour jokes about unpleasant things like death, disease, etc.

The murderer entreated the judge for mercy, but was sentenced to the gallows .

An execution chamber is pictured at the Tokyo Detention Center. Japan opened up its gallows for the first time to domestic media on Friday.

And because he had committed robbery on the open road, the good servant was sentenced to the gallows.

sub-gallows pneumatic control, sub-cutter when the user-friendly, labor-saving.

Thus my excuse for the gallows humor that pervades this story.

Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.

Can Minha find evidence to save her father from the gallows?

Certain sectors, such as medicine and the armed forces, have a reputation for a robust gallows humour, which works as a coping mechanism.

Villon also led a life of excess, spending much time in prison and in 1463 he narrowly escaped the gallows.

You, Mr. Wilkes, will die either of the pox or on the gallows.

But somehow it worked. Gallows humour becomes Mr Brown.

The judge condemned the criminal to the gallows.

Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole.

a crime punishable by the gallows.

The greater the crime, the higher the gallows.

Outside city, a high and big gallows have already stand upped.

The murderer was sent to the gallows.

The topic of the guidelines became a platform for the spontaneous gallows humor that is characteristic of China's microblogging masses.

Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.

Asfor Saddam himself, he went to the gallows in 2006 not with his signaturejet-black mustache, but with a salt-and-pepper beard.

They thought the lash would save them, and they used the lash; or the knife, or the gallows, or the auction block.

Lying is the first step to the gallows.

In 1927 he died on the gallows of the warlords.

eg. That very day a gallows was built outside the town.

Send them to the gallows!

He is destined to the gallows.

I did what I was told and those two criminals went to the gallows and they were hung.

He'll pick you up at 9 in the morning. Gallows Corner. Know it?

Or does she think it a shame or scandal To see me die upon the gallows tree

And I ran through the gallows, her heart was down there

Once more to the gallows

Application of Gallows Structure to Pipeline Over-crossing Design

In her gallows built for me

Than a man to die upon the gallows tree

Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose

Between the gallows and the gates

Instead of the gallows of heartache that hang from above

TV shows Saddam had feisty exchange at gallows

Send a man to the gallows

Come down, come down from that cruel gallows

Power of pit and gallows

It's high above on the gallows tree

Have the gallows in one' s face