| 单词 | gallows-tree |
| 例句 | The gallows-tree bore fruit through all the year, and the hangman was the busiest official in the kingdom—but the criminals increased. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z It is satisfactory to learn that he swung for it on the gallows-tree. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Alas! that ever so fair a sun As that which its course has now begun Should gild with rays, so light and free, That dismal dark-frowning gallows-tree.” Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Keep my thaler for yourself, and grow up, precious sapling; for if you'll not serve for a crucifix, you will serve at least for a gallows-tree. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z And now he felt like a man who has been reprieved from under the very gallows-tree itself. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Was that a deluded court, representative of a deluded people, which condemned Margaret Jones to “hang high on the gallows-tree”? Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z To some among the country folk it suggested the beam of the gallows-tree. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z I could see those five men hauled beneath the English gallows-tree, I could see the brave and noble fortitude wherewith they went to their death. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion And still the bell went tolling on; It tolled so heavily As that young man went up the stairs, Out to the gallows-tree. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Underneath is the usual picture of the gallows-tree and its fruit. Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Though I find no knightly fee Waiting on my lealty, High upon the gallows-tree Faithful to my fealty, What had I but love and youth, Hope and fame in season? Collected Poems Volume One By the Sheriff's castle, out upon the roadway, they have built an angled gallows-tree to bear the four of them at once. Robin Hood “Personally, I could eat under any tree—under a gallows-tree.” The White Mice And if I shall spare thee this night, it may well be they’ll set thy carcase swinging on the gallows-tree to-morrow morning,—or, being Christmas, the day after.” The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. The trial soon came on; the matter was sifted to the bottom; the prisoner found guilty, and his doom passed:—he was ordered to be hanged forthwith on the gallows-tree. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes ‘O whether will ye marry the bonny may, Or hang on the gallows-tree?’ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series The obelisk of stone, with its long record, occupying the place where stood the gallows-tree. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure You can see, all of you, that this ripe gallows-tree blossom is determined at any cost to saddle me with his sins. The Day of Wrath Here they found a large crowd surrounding the gallows-tree which did such frequent service there. Hunted and Harried Then, half carrying, half dragging, bring them under the branches designed for their gallows-tree. The Lone Ranche O. Yon Oak will be the gallows-tree Of Richmond's fallen majesty. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Displayed considerable nous On that eventful day; For bits of broken looking-glass They held aslant on high, And there a mirrored gallows-tree Met their delighted eye. The Bon Gaultier Ballads Coward and rebel as you are, the gallows-tree is far too good for you. The Day of Wrath When cut down, the body was interred, like that of a felon, at the foot of the gallows-tree. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The Colonel's son has taken a horse, and a raw rough dun was he, With the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell, and the head of the gallows-tree. Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two This, when at an earlier time, the captive would have been strung up at once to adorn some gallows-tree, and shot down with a gun. Memorials of the Faithful Here stands a solemn-visaged house that looks down upon the scene of one of the most extraordinary dramas ever enacted beneath the gallows-tree. The Story of Cooperstown They will seek him everywhere but under the gallows-tree. The Day of Wrath His body, with that of his master, was by a vote of Parliament, December 4, 1660, taken from the grave and drawn to the gallows-tree, and there hanged and buried under it. Andrew Marvell And the mother answered: "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." English Fairy Tales The gallows-tree on the virgin soil of Australia flourished and bore fruit in abundance. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned May the Lord be my friend, Who here on earth suffered before145 On the gallows-tree for the sins of man! Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems Moreover, she wanted no gallows-tree intermingled with the annals of her family. Judith of the Plains They kept a gallows-tree erect before the castle gateway, a speaking symbol of vengeance, and there the blackened corpse, might hang until replaced, swinging in the winter wind. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees And the father answered: "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." English Fairy Tales "Luck always turns against a thief and a marauder," said a sweet and clear voice behind him; "and how can it be otherwise, when the gallows-tree stands at the end of his journey." The Sword Maker "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." More English Fairy Tales Oh! red, red was the dawn o’ day, And tall was the gallows-tree: The Southland lord to his ain has fled And the mess-priest’s hangit hie! Reviews Here was the cactus, taller than its fellows, and gaunt as a gallows-tree, and here the projecting end of a fallen cross. Sir Mortimer But they all said the same: "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." English Fairy Tales Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn- gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed. Past and Present "Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I have not come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." More English Fairy Tales He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent the knee, And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace Beneath the gallows-tree. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 There must be silence by law, on what had been done beneath the Manchester gallows-tree. The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession For him no friendly knife or bullet awaits, but the gallows-tree, by which no good Indian can ever hope to pass to the Happy Hunting Grounds. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion Have a care that the Crown Prince does not auction off all these objects under the gallows-tree some fine day. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." More English Fairy Tales A wild and woeful race he ran Of lust and sin by land and sea; Until, abhorred of God and man, They swung him from the gallows-tree. Ballads of a Bohemian "Take the rascal down and bind him fast to the gallows-tree against our return." Robin Hood I hear, my girl, that Egil said, When to the gallows he was led, That the king's thralls far more than he Deserved to hang on gallows-tree. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway Then the youth went to the gallows-tree and sat down underneath it, and waited for the evening; and because he felt cold he lit himself a fire. The Blue Fairy Book He is a bird of evil omen, to be sure," said the Keeper, "and croaks of jail and gallows-tree. The Bride of Lammermoor Slowly then, and awesomely, The ship sank, and the gallows-tree, And there was nought between sea and sun — Nought but the sun and the sky and the sea. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems I have passed the very spot where the gallows-tree is going up. Robin Hood On that ground there my lad's blood was shed, and from that watering hath grown this goodly gallows-tree with its fine ripe fruit upon it. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Don't touch me, there is blood on your hands, and blood on your skirts; and you are worse—ten thousand times worse—than any murderer who ever swung on the gallows-tree for her crime! A Knight of the Nets Father, promise me To save him from the gallows-tree. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Slow the dull procession moves To the fatal gallows-tree; There he sees no face he loves, Though the people come in droves His dying throes to see. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects As the proverb is, he sowed the gallows-acorn, poor wretch, and he reaped the gallows-tree; but that gallows-tree taught him to confess God’s justice, and his own sin, and so it may teach others. The Good News of God He would have shown the very stump of the gallows-tree as proof positive, like Jack Cade's bricks, alive in the chimney to this day. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent the knee; And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace Beneath the gallows-tree. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Kipling's dun "with the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell and the head of the gallows-tree," could hardly have shown more spirit. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The fatal day was announced to the public by the appearance of a huge black gallows-tree towards the eastern end of the Grassmarket. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Edward the Confessor been alive, to give the Netherland knaves their guerdon, it would have been a cast of the gallows-tree. The Betrothed He will assuredly hang me on the gallows-tree. The Junior Classics — Volume 4 For three wild lads were we, brave boys, And three wild lads were we; Thou on the land, and I on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree! Guy Mannering — Complete He is found guilty and sentenced to be hung upon the gallows-tree. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 Don’t you speak to your betters like that, young man, or you’ll come to the gallows-tree! A Changed Man; and other tales It is popularly told of a famous freebooter, that he composed the tune known by the name of Macpherson's Rant while under sentence of death, and played it at the gallows-tree. The Lady of the Lake Then the darkness lifted a moment, and he stole a furtive glance, like a murderer's at the gallows-tree, at the scene in front. Bob, Son of Battle I saw where stark and cold he lay, Beneath the gallows-tree, And every one did point and say, ''Twas there he died for thee!' Mary Barton Then within a prison-yard, Faces fixed, and stern, and hard, Laughter and indecent mirth; Ah! it is the gallows-tree! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Well might ye have left this deed undone; go to now, bide ye here while I go seek your gallows-tree! The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda The greater part of the assembly voted for this opinion; Hagbard was condemned, and a gallows-tree planted to receive him. The Danish History, Books I-IX For oak and elm have pleasant leavesThat in the springtime shoot:But grim to see is the gallows-tree,With its adder-bitten root,And, green or dry, a man must dieBefore it bears its fruit! Ballad of Reading Gaol And may they be found In all to abound, Both with Heaven and the country's anger; May they never want fractions, Doubts, fears, and distractions, Till the gallows-tree frees them from danger. Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 |
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