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单词 tumbrel
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I was the condemned young aristocrat holding my head high in the tumbrel. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Traditionally, of course, it's Marie Antoinette, who must have had souls rattling round in her like distressed aristocrats in a tumbrel. TV review: Who Do You Think You Were 2010-09-03T21:31:00Z
If commoners' living standards slip—not relative to the elites, but relative to what they had before—they accept the overtures of the counter-elites and start oiling the axles of their tumbrels. Will young people save American democracy from Republican authoritarians? It's not that simple 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z
“Mr Thomas the careers man came and he thinks I should do economics,” my diary records in tumbrel dread. From fan mail to fiction: the letters from famous authors that made me a writer 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z
They had the right to erect gallows, pillory and tumbrel for the punishment of malefactors. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z
It is true we heard a good deal about wrecked troop-trains, blown-up tumbrels, and half-annihilated battalions; but all these incidents occurred at such great distances from our trenches that I was unable to verify them. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z
Six tumbrels carry the day’s wine to la guillotine. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z
Baggage wagons moved hither and thither loaded with stores; tumbrels with ammunition rumbled along the streets. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z
“I feel as if I had just left the tumbrel on the way to my execution,” observed Molly, trying to laugh, although the corners of her mouth turned persistently down. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z
The tumbrel stopped before the door of N�tre Dame, and a paper was put into her hands, from which she read, in a firm voice, a confession of her crimes. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z
Fed up with its prodigal and prideful rulers, France saw the tumbrels roll and the guillotine blades drop. America's autocratic way of war 2011-05-12T16:45:00Z
They punished it with the pillory and tumbrel. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z
For science’s aristos, then, much of this suggests the tumbrels await. Global science: Climbing Mount Publishable 2010-11-11T11:00:14Z
Sometimes, when placed on a tumbrel, it was used for ducking. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
In this drawing Leech’s power over individual character may be noted in the diversity of type amongst the hooting crowd round the tumbrel. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z
One of the men having approached a tumbrel with a lighted pipe a spark fell into it and the whole blew up with a tremendous explosion, killing two of the party and severely injuring another. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan
He would not have stood beside the ammunition-waggons when the French dragoons bore down, and with a loud voice called out, 'Halt! these tumbrels are powder; another step and I'll explode the train!' Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II)
That rode into the discard on the tumbrels of the Revolution. Thirty
When the ducking was accomplished, the tumbrel was drawn out of the water by the ropes. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
The country for miles round was one moving mass of fugitives; cannon, waggons, tumbrels, wounded soldiers, horsemen, and even splendid equipages were all mixed up together on the Pampeluna road, which lay to our right. Jack Hinton The Guardsman
Thomas de Chaworth, in the reign of Edward III., made a claim of a park, and the right of free warren, at Alfreton, with the privilege of having a gallows, tumbrel, and pillory. Bygone Punishments
Sometimes there sounded the slow and heavy tread of a pensive carabao, drawing a great tumbrel; its conductor, on his buffalo skin, accompanying, with a monotonous and melancholy chant, the strident creaking of the wheels. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
His officers placed him in a tumbrel, or pioneer's cart, and bore him from the field, where, in his despair, he prayed them to leave him to die. The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief
The British Sepoys hailed the exploit with loud huzzahs, and seeing the explosion of one of the enemy's tumbrels, rushed down the hill, driving the Arabs before them. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
Ambulances, farm wagons, carts, family carriages, heavy-laden, they rumbled over the cobblestones with the sound of the tumbrels in the Terror. The Long Roll
Scolding Cart is another name for the tumbrel. Bygone Punishments
It was the list of prisoners who to-morrow were to appear before the Tribunal—that is to say, of the victims who the day after to-morrow were to ride in the tumbrels to the guillotine. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798
I only thought of Marie Antoinette after the tumbrel went by. While Caroline Was Growing
You may see many such crowding round the guillotine or the tumbrel in pictures of the French Revolution. Sword and Gown A Novel
But the wounded continued to come in, ambulance, cart, and wagon rolling like tumbrels over the stones. The Long Roll
In some places, millers, if detected stealing corn, were placed in the tumbrel. Bygone Punishments
But the tumbrels that made their daily ghastly journey did not pass their way. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798
In the pursuit, along a road encumbered with deserted waggons, tumbrels, and guns, the pursuers after nightfall became almost as much broken up as the pursued. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
Another hurdle was brought forward, and Demdike advanced to the tumbrel. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest
As for the women found among these men, they were to suffer the cucking-stool—this is a tumbrel, the name of which is composed of the French word coquine, and the German stuhl. The Man Who Laughs
We are disposed to believe, from the mention of three wheels, in a payment made in 1572, that here the engine of punishment was a tumbrel. Bygone Punishments
It was a terrible position just then, for to be suspected of pity for a condamné was an offence which might easily place the sympathiser on the tumbrel beside the victim. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798
Monseigneur de Belzunce sat upon the seat of the tumbrel laden with corpses, driven by a convict stained with every crime. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
Next followed a tumbrel, drawn by two horses, in which sat the abbot alone, the two other prisoners being kept back for the present. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest
On the following morning such of the inhabitants of Boisingham as chanced to be about were much interested to see an ordinary farm tumbrel coming down the main street. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life
Humboldt states that the police were in the practice of sending tumbrels round, to collect the unhappy victims of intoxication. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
A man condemned to death is listening to his confessor in the tumbrel. Les Misérables
Could that gorgeous state carriage drive from her mind the memory of the martyred queen's tumbrel? The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise
It was on the Place de la Nation, on a tumbrel—going to the guillotine. Barlasch of the Guard
There were some thirty men in this tumbrel, whose sole crime was foolish exaltation of thought and threatening language. The Companions of Jehu
"You will get the tumbrel ready for the general, lieutenant," he said quietly. A Soldier of Virginia
Florent felt interested in one enormous tumbrel which was piled up with magnificent cabbages, and had only been backed to the kerb with the greatest difficulty. The Fat and the Thin
Only the old people who sit on the planks, basking in the setting sun, speak occasionally among themselves of the bones which they once saw carted through the streets of Plassans by the legendary tumbrel. The Fortune of the Rougons
Placed in a tumbrel, with her arms tied behind her, she was taken to the Place de la R`evolution. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
This one has its advantages; it is only about a hundred feet from the prison, which economized and still economizes the tumbrel and the horse of M. de Bourg. The Companions of Jehu
He had been wounded in the shoulder, and at the suggestion of Captain Orme mounted the tumbrel and drove the horses, while I walked beside it. A Soldier of Virginia
Cadine and Marjolin then directed their attention to the vans and drays and tumbrels which were drawn up in the quiet street. The Fat and the Thin
At the appointed hour the tumbrel enters the street, driven by the paid executioner—a descendant of the original Sanson—and bearing the dread instrument of punishment, a large oblong tin tub. Europe Revised
A tumbrel drawn by a stout Norman horse, and all surrounded by cavalry in violet livery with white crosses, had just debouched upon the Place through the Rue Saint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs. Notre-Dame De Paris
Picture to yourself a tumbrel of prisoners on their way to Lons-le-Saulnier. The Companions of Jehu
At that moment, a tumbrel drawn by two maddened horses dashed by. A Soldier of Virginia
Field pieces, bombs, and tumbrels from all the magazines of the United Provinces were collected at the head quarters. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
Her body bounded at every jolt of the tumbrel like a dead or broken thing; her gaze was dull and imbecile. Notre-Dame De Paris
It is horrible! to see you ride in that tumbrel! Notre-Dame De Paris
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