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单词 gallows tree
例句 gallows tree
“Hold-Your-Nose Billy, a wild man is he, Hang him from a gallows tree. Here he comes, there he goes: Don’t forget to hold your nose.’ The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z
They were brought back, and hung up again; taken down again; escorted to the Neck, by an immense concourse; hanged upon the gallows tree; taken down once more; and torn into innumerable fragments. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z
Often have I dress'd my Queen,85 And often made her bed; But now I've gotten for my reward The gallows tree to tread. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z
Slowly the orchard fills with murmuring, whispering people; men and women coming up through the trees make a semicircle amongst them, about the gallows tree, but at a good distance. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
Said Offerus, "Methinks you are afraid of those gallows trees," and, drawing his bow, he shot an arrow into the middle cross. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z
And now, good comrades, what shall it be, A dungeon cell or a gallows tree? The Bishop and the Boogerman 2011-06-12T02:00:07.497Z
They gazed raptly upon the gallows tree where pirates used to dangle. Little Erik of Sweden 2011-06-07T02:00:12.210Z
But there are footmarks of many men—long scores across the turf, that tell of violent struggling, and a patch of grass more smoothly trampled down beneath the gallows tree. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z
Aroused by this to forget her own sufferings, even to forget for the moment the dreadful burden borne by the gallows tree, she thrust out her hand and seized his sleeve. In the Day of Adversity
If once it bore, instead of its own sweetly wholesome produce, that debased fruit of the gallows tree, its dignity would be forever broken! The Roof Tree
"You'll have to ride a ways; there isn't any gallows tree in walking distance." The Ranch at the Wolverine
And they be these—the Wood, the Weed, the Wag: The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree; The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag; The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee. A History of Elizabethan Literature
Those that survived from the jailing betook themselves to the road, and became sturdy beggars, so that many of them too came to the gallows tree. The Fifth Queen Crowned
Three sledges waited for us in the yard to draw us to the gallows tree. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
Men," he bellowed, almost jubilantly, "don't waste no time—ther gallows tree stands ready. The Roof Tree
The most wonderful gardener and the most wonderful tree in the world are respectively Jack Ketch and the gallows tree, because when the hangman plants that unpleasant vegetable it bears fruit the same day. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
"Ould Marmion was a soldier bold, But he went all to pot, Sir; He was hanged upon the gallows tree, For killing Sir Walter Scott, Sir." The Book of Humorous Verse
On one occasion," he tells me, "Punch suspended me, pictorially of course, from a gallows tree. The History of "Punch"
One of a small bunch of chestnut trees west of the road where it tops the hill is pointed out as the gallows tree, although early accounts speak of a rough gallows having been erected. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five
The Colonel's son has taken a horse, and a raw, rough dun was he,15 With the mouth of a bell, and the heart of Hell, and the head of the gallows tree. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
O the Gold Road is a hard road, And it leads beyond the sea,— Some follow it through the altar gates And some to the gallows tree. Days of the Discoverers
But these were the days when no man awaked without having the possibility of either a knighthood or the gallows tree to encourage him to do his duty between dawn and dark. The Black Douglas
And still the gallows stood on the Field of Sleep, and also a big elm tree which sometimes served as the "gallows tree." Greenwich Village
But when they came to Signy's bower Low it lay in embers red; And when they came to the gallows tree, Hafbur was stark and dead. Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough
Yes," he said to himself, "my gallows tree. The Devil's Garden
It was a little thing to do, Will thought, for one who had saved him from the gallows tree. Stories of the Border Marches
This man was ragged beyond all that moving rag-heap; he was as gaunt as a gallows tree, and the thing he was uttering with arms held up to heaven was evidently a curse. The New Jerusalem
Well, the mobs have broke in and tore down the fences, and snapped off the branches, and scattered all the leaves about, and it looks no better than a gallows tree. The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
Now that they had caught him they could condemn him to be hanged on the spot, and away they hurried him to the gallows tree. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
"Sing, three merry men, and three merry men, And three merry men are we, Thou on the land, and I on the sand, And Jack on the gallows tree." The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day
The gallows tree has borne its ghastly fruit. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
Well, the mobs have broken in and tore down the fences, and snapped off the branches, and scattered all the leaves about, and it looks no better than a gallows tree.' The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
It ended in your becoming a rambler and a gambler: it is going to end this evening on the gallows tree. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
It bears a grimly significant resemblance to a gallows tree. Europe Revised
Hence Odin was called the Lord of the Gallows or the God of the Hanged, and he is represented sitting under a gallows tree. The Golden Bough
Perchance yet may King Siward rue My hanging on the gallows tree.” Poems By the Way
Among those who thus weighted the gallows tree were some of the Tory brigands from Watauga; but not all the victims were of this character. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
It was a little figure bound hand and foot and hanging from the gallows tree. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country
"Then He showed himself to the thousands who had seen him die upon the gallows tree!" Messer Marco Polo
I'd think bad to have you stifled on the gallows tree. The Playboy of the Western World
But when they came to Signy’s bower Low it lay in embers red; And when they came to the gallows tree, Hafbur was stark and dead. Poems By the Way
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