| 单词 | ducking stool |
| 例句 | Who better, then, to enjoy the ducking stool of misery and triumph that is Who Do You Think You Are? Rewind TV: Ocean Giants; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Story of British Path?: the Birth of the News; Wilfred ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:36Z Puritan-era America was rife with public humiliation in the form of pillories and ducking stools, but even in those cases, the accused went through a formal judicial process. Opinion | Problems with the solutions for sexual harassment 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The court of social media expressed astonishment, as usual appointing itself judge and jury and, in this case, ducking stool. Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z His opposite number Stephen Donald, in contrast, was a candidate for the nearest ducking stool, missing all his three penalty shots at goal and being jeered by his own supporters. Bath 0-22 Saracens 2012-12-22T16:18:36Z As we approached, the crowd, too intent to notice our coming, had seized the beam and were swinging it over the pond with the object of immersing the occupant of the ducking stool. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z It is thoroughly in keeping with the place that the old ducking stool and they say the cage for scolds should still exist. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z The ducking stool seems to have been placed on the lowest and most contempt-bearing stage among English instruments of punishment. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days She was a good woman, no doubt, but she was of the class who, in the old days, lent virtue to the ducking stool. A Yankee from the West A Novel Such characters were also taken to the ducking stool and thoroughly doused in the water. Women of England "Who is responsible for this conventicle?" he continued, urging his horse towards the ducking stool. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The passage is illustrated by figures of ducking stools and followed by some carefully analyzed statistics of connubial crime in Berlin in the years 1901-2. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman In the course of time the terms cucking and ducking stools became synonymous, and implied the machines for the ducking of scolds in water. Bygone Punishments In addition, the law authorized construction of a ducking stool, if deemed necessary, and required establishment of a 10-acre tract in which those imprisoned for minor crimes might, on good behavior, walk for exercise. The Fairfax County Courthouse The early Virginians did not hesitate to subject gossiping women to the harsh punishment of the ducking stool. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion But for what reason she was undergoing this punishment we could not discover, though I doubt not that she was a scold, such as we in England place in the ducking stool. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The ducking stool on Herring Creek had just been equipped, the year before, with new irons and so was in good repair. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century A wife convicted of slander was to be carried to the ducking stool to be ducked unless her husband would consent to pay the fine imposed by law for the offense.... Woman's Life in Colonial Days Yet another implement of rude justice was the cucking or ducking stool, which exists in a few places. Vanishing England This ducking stool was intended for the special benefit of vixens and scolding wives. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston In old New England there was once a pleasing invention called a "ducking stool," that was for "women only." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Up flew the beam of the ducking stool, reliev'd of their weight, and down with a splash went the pickpocket at the far end. The Splendid Spur Oh, I wish the ducking stool had never been abolished! The First Man |
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