| 单词 | gibbet |
| 例句 | Darin once drew the Execution Square gallows, complete with bodies hanging from the gibbet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Next she was stumbling past the dead men on their gibbet, while Hot Pie told their captors he'd bake them pies and tarts if they didn't hurt him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Well beyond the gibbet, two men in mail hauberks stood leaning on their spears in front of the long low building by the water, the one with the slate roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He took the road for Cambridge, crossing desolate Charlestown Common with its salt marshes, clay pits, gallows, and gibbet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My path back takes me through Execution Square, where the gibbets are conspicuously empty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The few men were very old or very young; the rest had been chained to that gibbet and left for the wolves and the crows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From the window, he could see the gibbet his father had erected in the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On hands and knees, they crawled along the gibbet, beneath the swaying dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A gibbet had been erected in the yard, and the body that swung there was covered with ravens. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Anyone who has seen a gamekeeper’s gibbet knows what the Black Rabbit can bring down on elil who think they will do what they will. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle, various stone buildings clustered around a central yard with a platform in the middle: the hanging gibbet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z No one wants to hang the Coral or put Duncan from Blue in a gibbet. Sweet Baboo, Nelly, Nadine Shah: this week's new tracks 2013-04-15T05:00:00Z Why exactly was I thinking of convict floggings with the cat-o’-nine-tails and corpses on the gibbet? Sydney?s Convict Past 2010-12-31T19:55:08Z Maybe she wanted us to think of vermin strung up on a gamekeeper's gibbet, or a game bird hung in Tate Britain's neo-classical larder. Fiona Banner's toys for boys are a turn-on at Tate Britain 2010-06-28T15:47:00Z Marley lives in an Escher-like dwelling with, of course, a very striking knocker, familiar to readers of “A Christmas Carol,” which Clinch renders newly macabre: It hangs “silent as an empty gibbet.” Taking Dickens to the Dark Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z On it goes, the process of breaking their will with blasts of cold water, smacks and contraptions which include a medieval gibbet, a water tank and a chair with buckles and straps for force-feeding. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z His body was coated in pitch, squeezed into a gibbet cage, and left for several years as a warning before being taken down and buried in secret. Was Captain Kidd set up? New exhibit airs doubts 2011-05-19T16:46:11Z They would build a gibbet outside of the White House lawn. Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson on Putin's deep appeal to "dictator-friendly" Republicans 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z At public hangings, so-called sack-'em-up men "sometimes even yanked people off the gibbet who weren't quite dead yet," Kean writes. Tales of scientists gone rogue (or worse) 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z “We are mapping execution sites and also places where bodies were gibbeted, so they are hung in gibbet cages as a warning against crime,” said Jeater. Shirt worn by Charles I for his execution to go on display in London 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Every few weeks, until October, 1761, rebellious prisoners were killed or were captured, tried, and executed—sometimes burned alive, sometimes hanged or gibbeted. The Long War Against Slavery 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z As the Roman historian Tacitus recounts, the Britons exacted a brutal revenge, “hasty with slaughter and the gibbet, with arson and the cross,” upon civilians and soldiers alike. The Brexit Warnings to Be Found in Sheep Grazing in a London Park 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z They were hanged from a triple gibbet near the murder scene, and the unknown man was buried in Thursley with a stone paid for by local people. Written in stone: The murder memorials 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Although the practice is fading, mole-catchers employ such gibbets to prove that the promised work is completed, and farmers use them to niggle their neighbours into clearing their own fields. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Pieces of the gibbet were once reputed to be able to cure toothache, if rubbed on the gums. A ghoulish tour of medieval punishments - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Doom, id Software’s rethink of its classic shooter franchise for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, arrives Friday in a flurry of hellfire, gibbets and other eviscerated miscellany. Why Our 'Doom' Review Isn't Live Yet 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Archaeologists said the condition of the bones and location of the burial close to the sea and gibbet suggested the man was killed before being displayed to deter other pirates. Skeleton under primary school in Edinburgh could have been a pirate 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The bodies were then hanged from gibbets in the most severe form of punishment available in the kingdom’s Sharia Islamic law. Saudi execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr sparks clashes across region – live 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z If nobody else is going to make this fun, we should start issuing demands for Tribal Councils, Weakest Links, Star Chambers, pools for drowning witches, gibbets and some form of naval exile. Donald Trump owns this election. All we can do is lean into the weirdness | Jeb Lund 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z As a warning to others, Islamic State killed four fighters from the rival side and hung their corpses on metal gibbets for public display, four residents told Reuters. Islamic State executes rival fighters after revolt in central Libya: residents 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z In Victorian times, the heyday of butterfly collecting, gamekeepers would attract Purple Emperors down to their gibbets by hanging out rotting carcasses of crows and rabbits. Purple Emperor: The butterfly that feeds on rotting flesh - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Kidd was hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping, where his body remained strung up in the gibbets for three years to serve as a warning to other would-be pirates. Why We Still Care About the Notorious Pirate Captain Kidd 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The bodies were then hanged from gibbets in the most severe form of punishment available in the kingdom’s Sharia Islamic law. Saudi execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr sparks clashes across region – live 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Rembrandt’s compassionate drawings of a young woman hanging from a gibbet are among the show’s many shocks. Rembrandt: The Late Works review – triumph in master’s tragedy 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Generations of school children across Halifax are taught the history of its gibbet but a few years ago it fell over due to rot. The curious world of street furniture 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z From crucifixion to gibbeting to winding, from burning and stoning to drawing and quartering, execution methods of old were designed to exact maximum suffering. America’s Long and Grisly Search for the Perfect Way to Kill 2014-04-30T19:51:47Z Those were not the days, especially if gibbeting followed the gruesome spectacle of execution. Council remembers convicted murderer whose real crime may have been to go on strike 2012-10-01T09:58:24Z Every one remembers how even the late Laureate gibbeted his Dons--how 'One Discussed his tutor, rough to common men. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z That I will, for mine own sake," answered the soldier; "or I should soon know gibbet and cord. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z "It fell down, I was nearby and I felt it was important," said Mr Haddock, whose offices sit opposite the gibbet site. The curious world of street furniture 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z No law to lay him by the heels, no hangman's whip to trounce, No pillory to gibbet the false fortune-piling pack Who poison, maim, and madden with their Quack! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z Mary Magdalene, whom he had dispossessed of seven devils, and a hardened criminal expiring on a gibbet. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z The Pretender suspended on a gibbet between the Devil and the Pope, with appropriate implements and dress, were among the objects devised to make up the show. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z This diminutive ot or et is found in our language in such words as poppet, jacket, lancet, ballot, gibbet, target, gigot, chariot, latchet, pocket, ballet. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Burning at the stake and hanging upon a gibbet were sacrifices to appease the divine justice. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Thou hast banished the Jews, thou hast given the rack, the gibbet and the stake to the Christian heretics, thou wilt kill and exile the Moors. Six One-Act Plays 2012-03-26T02:00:36.910Z Arrested here, they were tried at the Spring Assizes of 1787, held at Kingston-on-Thames, were sentenced to death, and hanged on April 7, their bodies being afterwards gibbeted on Hindhead, the scene of their crime. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z The grooms rode more briskly for her presence, the postboys looked grinning over their shoulders; even the gibbet that marked the turn to Tooting failed to depress her airy spirits. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z What matter if the night-winds howl and blow About the strings of flesh crows tore from you When you were on the gibbet? The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z But gibbets must eat also; and between ground and noose was so small a space in those days that a man dangled almost before he knew it. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z I began to think less of the body creaking in its irons on the gibbet above Dartford, and more of the chances of ultimate safety. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z It was even reported that Voltaire personally superintended the removal of the old ruinous one, saying, “Take away that gibbet” when pointing to the crucifix. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Lady Betty rejoined; and then shrieked and threw herself back in the carriage as they passed Croydon gibbet that stood at the ninth milestone, opposite the turn to Wellington. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The Catholics were persecuted, the Irish gibbeted, and printers transported, to atone for "the horrors of the French revolution." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z He held Angers safe, curbed by his gibbets. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z He has a ring made of iron from gibbets and is prepared to believe everything incredible. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Voltaire forgave his when he had gibbeted them in his writings. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Nor did she show herself at ease, or heave a sigh of relief, until the gibbet at the twenty-ninth milestone was safely passed, and the carriage rattled over the pavement of East Grinstead. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z They gibbeted the absurd opposition which his Episcopal brethren made to emancipation, "without benefit of clergy." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z And that arrested, that touched her in the depths of her grief and her horror; even while the gibbet on the causeway, which had burned itself into her eyeballs, hung before her. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Albertus the Great affirms that the root has a more powerful action when growing under a gibbet, and is brought to greater perfection by the nourishing secretions that drop from the criminal’s dangling corpse. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It was a favourite resort of highwaymen, whose bodies were exposed on gibbets along the road. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z This, which many men now living can remember, was the last gibbet that ever disgraced the Queen’s highway. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Lone women, quaking in remote dwellings, remembered the gibbet where the treacherous inn-keeper still moulded, and fancied every creak the coming of a man in a crape mask. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Yet gibbets are ugly things; and Thuriot, the printer, whose pride had been tickled by a summons to the conclave, began to wonder if he had done wisely in coming. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Very dimly I could make out the tall shapes of eight gibbets, stark and black against the starry sky. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Stung to madness by defeat, knowing that if taken alive the gibbet awaited him, the rover had fired the magazine, involving friend and foe in a common fate. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z "What warranty that when we have done our part we shall not to gibbet or gallows like our fellows?" The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z If a baker was found guilty of an offence against the law, he was arrested and kept in safe custody till the gibbet was ready for him. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z Have you seen the gibbet in the Square? Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z "Wait a bit; there's time to cheat a dozen gibbets 'twixt this and dawn." Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z "None of my kith ever found the way to the gibbet, I know." The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z But the time is full, and there comes an end of your gyves and your gibbets, your wheels and your molten lead! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Lord Clare had hinted that worse was yet to come, that the shadow of the gibbet was to stretch across the earth, that hemp would soon be at a premium. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z At least, if there be, there be gibbets too! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z "Do you believe they are setting the gibbets?" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z To you the gibbet proves the crime; because you read not story. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Have peasants ever done these things--and not perished sooner or later on gibbets and in dungeons? The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Hang the rascal, I should be glad to see him gibbeted! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z See, man, that before daybreak three gibbets, with a ladder and two ropes apiece, are set up in the square. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z That night we heard the noise of hammers overhead, and at first terror seized on all in the cage, for we believed that 407 workmen had come to build gibbets. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z So thoroughly had the gibbet with its sickening load seized and held their eyes, that it was but now they perceived a fire right underneath, and a living figure sitting huddled over it. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The long wars of religion, midway in which the Massacre of Bartholomew stands up, like some drear gibbet landmark in a waste, were, indeed, virtually over. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Some were gibbeted alive in a place called Green’s Bay. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z If I put up the gibbets and a man is hanged, and you have letters from the King, 'tis a rogue the less and no harm done. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z "With a gibbet on the cover," interrupted the big fellow, impatiently. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z He was condemned to die, and that death to be by gibbeting. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z A mile along it, towards London, stands the little town of Caxton, from which the gibbet derived its name. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Tradition connects the origin of the Yorkshire town of that name with a head of singular length and beauty of hair, found at or near the place where the Halifax gibbet used to stand. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z If the gibbets are not in place by sunrise, I shall hang you from this window. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z And, answering 163 my puzzled smile, he added, "A long life on a long trail, but there's ever a shorter cut to the gibbet!" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The place where he was executed is well known to many in Antigua as White’s Bay, and a few years ago, the remains of the gibbet was to be met with. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z There was a rough woodcut upon the title-page of the ballad representing four men hanging in chains upon four gibbets. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z The remains of the gibbet on which the bodies of some of his fellow knights of the road were exposed were actually found when the foundations for the church were being dug out. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z But how was he to pursue it while those gibbets stood? Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z He started in the evening from the seashore, within sight of the lit-up town where a black gibbet was still standing bodingly against the sky. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Eight of his fourteen companions having now fallen, the rest, much wounded, leaped overboard and called for quarter, which was granted till the gibbet could be got ready. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z Then she ceased her dancing, and, taking a position at the gibbet's foot, calmly and thoughtfully looked up at the swinging body of the unfortunate man. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z This document was sealed with red wax, and endorsed:—“Sentence on a hog, executed by justice, brought into the copyhold of Clermont, and strangled on a gibbet at Avin.” Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z The river is not yet full, nor the gibbet glutted! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z A gibbet was erected, and the next day it was resolved to lead him at once from his cabin to the place of execution, without the hypocritical and useless ceremony of even a prejudged trial. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Long ago have their bones crumbled from the dark gibbets on the lonely sand islands of the Pacific, and they remain without monument or record, except in prison chronicles and forgotten voyages. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z It was determined, under menace of the gibbet, to extort a ransom from the parents of all these innocent girls. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Gibbet, jib′et, n. a gallows on which criminals were suspended after execution: the projecting beam of a crane.—v.t. to expose on a gibbet. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The Temple you rais'd was so wonderful large Not one of them thought you could answer the charge, It seem'd a mere castle constructed of vapour, Surrounded with gibbets and founded on Paper. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z He eyes my gold chain, as if anxious to crib it; He looks just as if he'd been blown from a gibbet. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Pirates were gibbeted on the sea shore or river bank. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The executions took place on market days on a hill outside the town, the gibbet somewhat resembling a guillotine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street earned thereby the sobriquet of Hangland's Bank, and her victims included two women on a day when Cruikshank looked at the gibbet of the Old Bailey. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z For scaffolds and halters were full in her view, And the fiends of perdition their cutlasses drew: And axes and gibbets around her were placed, And the demons of murder her honours defaced. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Their food was of the foulest—they shrank not from carrion, and have been accused, apparently not without reason, of cannibalism, for which in early days many a gitano swung from the gibbet. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z It was not until 1752 that gibbeting was recognized by statute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z We have put her away in an old chest with hoops and tie-wigs and gibbets and pirates and Newgate ordinaries and rotten boroughs and watchet ribbands. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Vengeance is mine, old man; see where it falls, Behold yon hearths laid waste, and ruined walls, Yon gibbets, where the struggling patriot hangs, Whilst my brave myrmidons enjoy his pangs. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z Not only on cross and gibbet, By sword, and fire, and flood, Have perished the world's sad martyrs Whose names are writ in blood. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z And there, upon the gibbet, he saw a dummy of himself dangling from the rope. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Instead of chains, gibbet irons, a framework to hold the limbs together, were sometimes used. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The “awful example” hanging from the gibbet appears to be made of bolsters, and to have had, not a drop too much, but scarcely enough. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Next we come to the gibbeting of a Threlkeld man, one of the earliest recorded instances of that punishment being imposed in the County Palatine. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z His corpse was publicly hanged on a gibbet in the city of Trent. Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War 2011-10-27T02:00:27.020Z The great oak had been blown down later, gibbet and all, and the gibbet had never been set up again. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Holinshed is the authority for the statement that sometimes culprits were gibbeted alive, but this is doubtful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Up to the year 1800, the Heath was a most famous place for gibbets. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z If he is convicted of the offence, his punishment will be death—death on the gibbet, accompanied by indignities worse than those shown to a common felon.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Laws may interdict and gibbets terrify, but neither can convince the understanding, nor purify the sources of action. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z On Saturday last the effigy of Thomas Paine was carried round the town of Swaffham, and afterwards hung on a gibbet, erected on the market-hill for that purpose. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z This was known as “gibbeting,” and, though by no means rare in the earliest times, was, according to Blackstone, no part of the legal sentence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The body of Ivas had been cut down after the execution, but the gibbet still presented its gloomy front to the market-place. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z "Better pay our taxes patiently, and remain quiet about state crimes," say they, "than, by daring to investigate public measures, or the conduct of great men, risk a prison or a gibbet!" Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Bolts, dungeons, shackles cannot confine it; racks, flames and gibbets cannot extinguish it. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z They carry away the corpses off the gibbets of Montfaucon; they commit a thousand horrors to make their sorceries successful. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Nay, good mistress," interrupted the Captain, "I will agree to be gibbeted by thine own fair hand, if I do not satisfy thee that in this adventure we are deserving of all applause. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z It was the gibbet of the young patriot which they were finishing in the centre of the marketplace. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z I had no time to make gibbets; a forest too, as that was a steppe-land, was nowhere in view. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Union or slavery; union or confiscation; union or the rack, the stake, the gibbet. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z How strange to think of the tiny community in a remote valley of Asia Minor, eighteen centuries since, thus gibbeted for ever! The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z He is fenced in, and we have squeezed him like curds in a bag, so that whey is coming out, and still he threatens with sword and gibbet. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Lecamus was obliged to lean on the astrologer; his legs refused to carry him, for he thought that his son might next day be swinging to one of those gibbets. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Three days afterwards the survivors of the pirate crew were seen swinging on gibbets,—a punishment they richly deserved. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z The word “gibbet,” the Fr. gibet, gallows, which appears in the first instance to have meant a crooked stick,3 was originally used in English synonymously with gallows, as it sometimes still is. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z I ought to have remembered that with Sylvia it was now crown or gibbet, and that there was no room for platonic admirers. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z In towns they built permanent gibbets, which every day were adorned with new victims. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z In a moment more my hands and Cedric’s were fast bound with halters like those of scurvy thieves that go to pay their penalty upon the gibbet. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z To-morrow they may disappear altogether, and perhaps out of that fog will rise in their place a rope or a gibbet. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z From the gruesome custom comes the common use of the word “to gibbet” for any holding up to public infamy or contempt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z It happened, however, that one man's oath being taken, he affirmed and swore by his deposition that he was going to be hanged on that gibbet, and had no other errand or intention. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z But the speakers did not foresee that a worse fate than even the gibbet was awaiting Count Veyhard. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z We have the Roman governor's official interpretation of its significance in a certain superscription written aloft in Hebrew and Greek and Latin on the gibbet of an insurrectionist. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z And now to see their manly proportions ignominiously exposed upon a gibbet, after having been most inhumanly murdered, was more than he could calmly bear. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z Beware now how thou tell me aught but truth, For by this hand! an thou dost play me false, I'll have thee burnt alive, or gibbetted From the highest turret of this castle. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z We must, at such times, talk to him after his own fashion; and, in order to tame him, threaten him with rack and gibbet. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "Even as high as the gibbet," said the other. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Naught save mine image on a gibbet thrust Found I on Venus island desolate.... The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z A lady would as soon think of falling in love with a culprit on the gibbet. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z I whips me, in haste, the halter over the neck of an honest stander-by:—and I jerks me him up to the top of a twenty foot gibbet. The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts 2011-07-05T02:00:33.083Z He concluded with the well-known Jutlandic joke: "Thank God you are out of the way of the Ribe-Ret, my child; as the old woman said when she saw her son hanging on the gibbet." The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "I shall not have them hanged on confidence, but on gibbets." The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The only knights of the road our travellers encountered were dangling from gibbets by the wayside in all the glories of periwigs and full-skirted coats. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Napoleon rejoined, that for every French prisoner thus slain he would gibbet an Austrian officer, commencing with Alvinzi's own nephew, who was in his hands. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z "I recollect when the spot was occupied by a gibbet, and when, in lieu of a statue, an effigy of the martyred monarch was placed there," replied Morse. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z It is well, perhaps, that he did not live to see the terrible vengeance that has been inflicted, the roadsteads lined with gibbets, torture returned by torture, insult by cruel mocking. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z But he did not withdraw his orders, and that same day gibbets wore erected in view of the whole cloister. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z They could have seen him gibbeted with a sense of infinite satisfaction. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z As we crossed the court-yard of the palace I observed that four gibbets had been erected there. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius, secretly dissected human corpses, finding them hanging on public gibbets or competing with dogs for those incompletely buried in cemeteries. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z They would not have played such a ghastly trick under the shadow of the gibbet. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z If you do that,' he continued, 'you will find the country so difficult to manage that you will have to depend upon the gibbet and the sword.' The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Whereupon Roberti, a Flemish Jesuit, falls upon him tooth and nail, disputes his facts, overwhelms him with abuse, and gibbets him for popular ridicule. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z He who does the deed merits a monument rather than a gibbet.' The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z The cord's about thy neck, and the gibbet's reared for him. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z A negro hanged at Newport in 1769 was gibbetted on the same hill. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z He sees only after death: the gibbet, the row of corpses, their heads hanging, the eyes picked from their sockets by the crows, a row of blackened, sun-dried bodies swinging in wind and rain. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z If he swear truth, he may go on; but if he swear false, he shall be hanged, and die without remission upon the gibbet at the end of the bridge.' The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z At stated hours a bell summoned them to their meals, and in the kennel stood a gibbet, as a warning to the lazy or perverse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Ask your slaves here, if, at the foot of the gibbet, I shrank from the death which was before me. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z This man he gibbeted in the character of Viper in The Capuchin, under which name the altered Trip to Calais was performed in 1776. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z "How, Marchioness," fumbled Plouernel, "according to you—the King—would be—a revolutionist—and so cut out for the gibbet?" The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z In that place there was a great scaffold made, and a gibbet in the midst of the scaffold. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z Well, what is three years' hard labor to a man who has seriously contemplated a gibbet for several weeks past? The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z O ghastly glories of saints, dead limbs of gibbeted Gods! Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Aye, and such compacts have been kept inviolate, even at the gibbet’s foot, and beneath the bloody guillotine. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z If capital punishment were still a judicial option, I swear Ferguson's bleached bones would yet be twisting in the wind on a gibbet at Glasgow Cross such was the outpouring of public disapprobation. Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans 2011-02-06T00:06:56Z “And the headsman’s voice, and hammer’d blows Of nails that the jointed gibbet close, And the solemn chant of the dead!” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z His great grandson was Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, who may still be seen gibbeted in the pages of Junius. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Others were executed at Tyburn; and there, too, the bodies of the protector Oliver Cromwell, Treton, and Bradshaw, were ignominiously exposed on a gibbet, having been dug out of their tombs in Westminster Abbey. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z It arrived at one of the city gates that leads to the gibbet of Montfaucon. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z His eyes had caught sight of three gibbets, recently reared, as shown by the fresh earth that was thrown up at their feet. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z The signal was given, the trap was sprung, and, with a dreadful, sickening thud, Webster fell from the gibbet to the ground beneath. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z It was nothing uncommon to see persons upon the roadside in England left hanging to the gibbet for long periods of time where the people could see them as a warning. The Short Constitution 2011-01-05T03:01:00.017Z The number of executions almost exceeds belief; and every approach to town exhibited a gibbet, with some miserable creature hanging in chains. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z Near this spot stood a gibbet, with a couple of wheels, on which lay the bodies of two Finlanders without heads. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z I saw along the roads almost as many gibbets as trees! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z He ferrets out the misdemeanours of criminals of fourteen, and gibbets them. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z And the jury, forced to say Yes, are obliged to send to the gibbet a man whom in their hearts they may respect. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z “The gibbet’s on the low point by the mangrove swamp,” said the man. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z Under the Wembley arch/gibbet a conundrum presents itself to St George's hardcore, that swarm of serial forgivers who swallow the give-us-one-more‑chance rhetoric, however strong the evidence for refusing to do so. A boycott by England fans would have hurt more than the boos 2010-08-10T23:06:00Z "The soldiers of the Grand Monarch will not enjoy the pleasure of arresting me—I shall escape their gibbet." The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z They have so little heart in the service," he adds, "that no effort that I can make, not even the fear of the galleys or the gibbet, can prevent them from deserting. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies In less than quarter-of-an-hour after, the dense mass of human beings that surrounded the gibbet seemed all at once struck with some new and strong feeling of excitement. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 I whom you would have taken, and, if I had not died sword in hand, have hung at your yard-arm, and then gibbeted at the nearest port as a scarecrow.” Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z On concluding the pathetic strain, he grasped his violin by the neck, dashed it to pieces against the gallows, and flung the fragments into the grave prepared for himself at the foot of the gibbet. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Finally, the shapeless remains of the two great citizens were hung from the gibbet where common malefactors were executed. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z There is no march to the gibbet through a throng of spectators as in most of our own jails. In Jail with Charles Dickens Finally, one night he and a fellow student stole out of the town and robbed the gibbet of its treasure. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time “You cowards! and if he dies,”—there was a hysterical spasm here—“if he dies, you’ll both go to the gibbet and swing in chains!” Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The three gibbets were to be erected that same night. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought these wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks and language of the assembled spectators. In Jail with Charles Dickens It was sufficient to be a German to be suspected of heresy, and for the heretic, the pyre and the gibbet were ready prepared. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster I have one more examination to pass before I can sentence the natives to more than one year's imprisonment, and two before I can send them to the gibbet. Friend Mac Donald During a full century, half the gibbets of England witnessed the unrelenting severity of persecution, which these injured men quietly and meekly endured. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion Franco did not flinch upon hearing the awful word, synonym of incarceration and the gibbet. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico His body was disinterred at the Restoration, and exposed on a gibbet along with those of Cromwell and Ireton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Each evening they put up a gibbet as well as his tent, and the former did not remain long untenanted, but it was all in vain. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster A certain Menendez, who was sailing under orders to "gibbet and behead all Protestants in those regions," fell upon the colonists and massacred all he could find. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future I had to plead for him at the trial, but the evidence was so strong against him, that no earthly power could save him from the gibbet. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Very stiffly the gendarme moved away, without answering, and all unconscious of the shameful gibbet to which the political deputy was consigning him. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico As they drew near, the crows perched on the gibbet flew away with croakings of despair. Marguerite de Valois Two Spaniards, probably guilty of robbery, as was their custom, were strung up at the same gibbet. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster There I shall be, gibbeted in that woman's smile! The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Turning towards the prisoner, he cried,-- "Enough of this; fasten up the traitor to the gibbet!" Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. The cause he persecuted has made deathless the banished refugee, and has gibbeted the great monarch as a tyrant, whose misplanned severities wrought the ruin of his successor and his army. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus The two princesses left the procession; the opportunity was most favorable: they were passing by a hedge-lined footpath which led up the hill, and in doing so passed within thirty yards of the gibbet. Marguerite de Valois Inside the barricades, a few soldiers scurried round the arena, stacking the dead bodies, while others, farther back, stationed on the wreck of the Ville de Dunkerque, removed the sinister shapes hanging from their gibbets. The Tremendous Event Stung to madness by defeat, knowing that if taken alive a gibbet awaited him, the rover had fired the magazine, involving friend and foe in a common fate. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day "I have spared these rascals, Sire," said the Count Palatine, "that some of them, at least, may expiate their treachery on the gibbet." Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. If they leave this place the gibbet awaits them. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess My people, my dear people, my good people, had a clever idea and have hung the admiral up at the gibbet of Montfaucon. Marguerite de Valois Steal—not I," cried the Fool; "not likely, and the Montfa�on gibbet at one's elbow yonder, with the crows a-swirling and pecking about it as in the time of naughty Clerk Francis. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion Later forty shillings added to Thomas Barnard for erecting the gibbet. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Then it is that, out of the thickness of the fog a figure suddenly emerges running and panting: a man has fallen up against the group of soldiers who have just halted beside the gibbet. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe: To murder thousands takes a spacious name, War’s Glorious art, and gives immortal Fame. A Book of Epigrams Meantime they kept on their way and at length saw the lugubrious outline of the gibbet, erected and first used by Enguerrand de Marigny. Marguerite de Valois Could human courts take vengeance on the mind, 865 Axes might rust, and racks and gibbets fall: Guard, then, thy mind, and leave the rest to fate. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The gibbet awaits all those of his followers who may be arrested. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 "Time to put up a gibbet, Jan? and to hang a man?" The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Aimery—"Between your Church and the gibbet, we choose the gibbet." The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Then the gentleman in the white satin doublet turned out from the road taken by the majority of the company, struck into a narrow footpath, and describing a curve rode back toward the gibbet. Marguerite de Valois Heart merit wanting, mount we ne’er so high, 263 Our height is but the gibbet of our name. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Or why are the recollections of rebels to be taken down from the gibbet, and embalmed in history, while the name of him who smote the rebellion is suffered to moulder away? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Jan has told him that his last hour has come: time to put up a gibbet with a few stiff planks taken from the store-room of the molens and a length of rope. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Ye ropes of the gibbets, straighten yourselves Under the weight of your loads! The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades From the principal gibbet hung a misshapen mass, a black corpse stained with coagulated blood and mud, whitened by layers of dust. Marguerite de Valois When he came within sight of the gibbet, he appeared to be startled, and inquired with some emotion whether he was not to be shot. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools The old-time heroes you honor, whose banners you bear, The whole world no longer prohibits; But if you peer into the past you will find them there, Swinging on gibbets. The American Country Girl Jan sees to it all and a gibbet is not difficult to erect. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel After the pillage the gibbets are raised, And the wood is piled for the pyres. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades To my professional eye they rather resemble a rough gibbet with three bodies hanging from it.” Zero the Slaver A Romance of Equatorial Africa You have heard of the man, have you not, who thanked God he had at least reached a civilised country on seeing a gibbet? The Ruined Cities of Zululand The right to administer high justice carried with it that of executing death-sentences, and the pillory and the gibbet, erected near the ch�teau, were the visible evidences of this power. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 The other men—there are close on forty all told—crowd round the gibbet now, those in charge of the prisoner have much ado to keep the space clear. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel With the aid of a ladder the executioners have raised Aimery up to the noose that dangles from the first gibbet. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades The sight of them upon the rack tends more to keep a man from poaching and stealing than whole volumes of penal statutes, though assisted by the terrors of the hulks and the gibbet. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend The gibbets rose at the street corners and a bloody vengeance fell upon the rioters. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The headless body of the admiral was at that moment swinging on the gibbet of Montfaucon. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 He hurried on, covering with swift eager steps the short distance that separated him from the gibbet. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel The rope of your gibbet seems too thin for me, and your ladder too frail. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Some were burnt, some hung alive on gibbets, and about six hundred transported to the Bay of Honduras. The West Indies and the Spanish Main Twelve times the centuries builded up their store Of plots, rebellions, gibbets, tears and gore; Twelve times centennial annivers'ries came, To bless the seraph in St. Patrick's name. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The body of Le Gris was delivered to the public executioner, who dragged it on a hurdle to the gibbet of Montfaucon, where it was hung in chains. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 If I am not dangling on a gibbet by then, I shall understand. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel After the pillage the gibbets are raised, And the wood is piled for the pyres. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Then the gentleman in the white satin doublet left the road which the cavalcade was following, struck into a side path, and describing a curve, returned towards the gibbet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 I know not whether they call those things that sustain their horns gibbets or corbels,... but I venture to say Saint Elizabeth did not get to heaven by wearing such things. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Bodies of negroes swung on gibbets in the white encampments and on trees by the roadside. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 Smothering a curse he resumes his task of adjusting the rope upon the gibbet, but his fingers are unsteady and his work doth not progress. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel But poorly fixed over night in the earth, most of the gibbets are torn down through the initial momentum imparted by the fall of the one that was intended to end Goose-Skin's life. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades It was a sad and strange sight to behold all these elegant cavaliers and beautiful women passing, like one of the processions which Goya has painted, under the blackened skeletons and tall grim gibbets. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 But Paul, who at other times would have punished offences like these with the gibbet and the stake, could not quarrel with his defenders, and was obliged to digest his mortification as he best might. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Accordingly, six hundred of the most notable persons in Bagota, both men and women, guiltless of all other crimes but education, were strangled, and their bodies suspended naked from gibbets. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 "I wish I could see myself gibbeted, as you call it." The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly The young viscount and consuls are pinioned— The viscount soon dies by poison, the consuls on the gibbet. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades "Madam," replied the man, bowing to the ground, "I an Maître Caboche, executioner of the city of Paris; and I am come to suspend to this gibbet some companions for the admiral." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 It is but just to add, that he says the government took prompt measures to repress it, by ordering some of the principal offenders to the gibbet. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 The donjon—a pillory on one side, a gibbet on the other—was the symbol of their might. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern It is a great penalty to pay for greatness to be gibbeted in this fashion. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Soldiers with drawn swords lead the prisoners to the foot of the gibbets. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades The moment was favourable for so doing, for they were just crossing a road bordered by high hedges, by following which they would get to within thirty paces of the gibbet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 If you do that, you will find Ireland so difficult to manage that you will have to depend on the gibbet and the sword.” The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) He fled to Venice where he was soon afterward drowned by falling from a gondola, thus cheating the gibbet of its dues. Every-Day Errors of Speech The delays of the gibbet would weary their patience. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Mounted up to the middle of the ladder which leans against the gibbet, the executioner gives Goose-Skin a violent jerk by the collar in order to compel him to step up. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades "The highest power" is continually threatened; a prediction that, in the days of Queen Bess, would—we doubt not—have helped Raphael to the highest gibbet. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The Turkish general, Omar Vrione, along his whole line of advance, marched between rows of high gibbets on which bleached the bones of horribly tortured Turks. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Warburton was to go on circulating Pope's venom, and any victim who retaliated was to be pronounced "sacrilegious," "a scandal even to barbarians," and worthy to be "rewarded with execration and a gibbet." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition They crouch beneath the gibbet of the murderer, meet in gloomy caverns, amid earthquake convulsions, or in thunder, lightning, and rain.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare The courthouse and the gibbet, without mercy but full of stern justice, have taken the place of the murderer's greed that sharpened the murderer's knife. The Vision of Elijah Berl A miserable Creature stole a watch under the gibbet at the late hanging. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The very lamps that swung to and fro with the wind, looked hazy and dim amid the sweeping rain, and the chains clanked with the dreary cadence of a gibbet. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas From the murderer's gibbet, throw Into the flame. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment Oh, glorious Prince, he will never be back again—unless the bandit descended from his gibbet, and that is unlikely. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Two pleas only can justify disinterring and gibbeting an author's private life—either his having done the same by others, or his having made the public the confidant of his individual experience. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. The disarmed men looked with dismay on one another, for they knew that such a prelude might well have its grand finale at the block or the gibbet. A Prince of Good Fellows The Morning of that Day arose, and the Moor was all blackened with people round the tall gibbet, that seemed to have grown, with its horrid arms, out of the ground during the night. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Among the baggage of this army, I could discover racks, wheels, chains, and gibbets, with all the instruments art could invent to make human nature miserable. The Tatler, Volume 3 Are you quite certain you saw the name of Karadeucq on that gibbet? The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Either the gibbet or suicide was to be my fate. Eyes Like the Sea In the year that Charles gained the throne the city of Canterbury sent some women to the gibbet. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The same morning, very early, Carlisle and Irving were hung on two gibbets in Fleet Street, over against the great gate of the Whitefriars. Old and New London Volume I The physician struck a light, decorated his guest with an old night-gown, and, having made him take off a cordial, requested to know what had brought him to the gibbet. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Nay, were it death, I should smile at the official gibbet. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence There was a hangman over at Melun, and, I doubt not, a fine tall gibbet hard by the town gate, where Jacques might see his fellows dangle against the sky as he went to market. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Farthing: Paine gibbeted; reverse, breeches burning, legend, "Pandora's breeches"; beneath, serpent decapitated by a dagger, the severed head that of Paine. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Longbeard was at once condemned, and with nine of his adherents, scorched and smoking from the fire, was sentenced to be hung on a gibbet at the Smithfield Elms. Old and New London Volume I At the foot 344 of a gently sloping path strewed with flowers, stands a gibbet decorated, not with a halter, but wreaths of roses. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Two hundred years thy name has been pilloried in face of the world, and thy memory gibbeted before mankind. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence The head was stuck upon a gibbet at Plymouth for twenty years. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women Half-penny without date, but no doubt struck in 1794, when a rumor reached London that Paine had been guillotined: Paine gibbeted; above, devil smoking a pipe; reverse, monkey dancing; legend, "We dance, Paine swings." The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron’s dule-tree. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston The “prospect” is far from encouraging—a fort with the English flag flying from the central tower, and a gibbet erected in front of it. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. James, if himself guilty of the plot, had to invent a story to excuse himself; the other man had to adopt the version of the King, to save his own life from the gibbet. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery On trees, I say,— Not upon gibbets!—With the greenery Of dewy branches and the flowery May, Sweet mediation betwixt earth and sky Providing, for the shepherd’s holiday. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV A halfpenny, January 21,1793: obverse, a man hanging on a gibbet, with church in the distance; motto "End of Pain"; reverse, open book inscribed "The Wrongs of Man." The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Donald's morbid fancy could see the skeleton of the gibbet and the hollow square of witnesses. The Wilderness Trail “Choose the best, if you can; or choose the worst; that which hangs in the wind dangles from a gibbet.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Why Sprot reserved this piece of evidence so long, why, under the shadow of the gibbet, he at last produced it, we shall later attempt to explain, though with but little confidence in any explanation. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Not upon gibbets! though the vulture leaves The bones to quiet, which he first picked bare. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Another bore a doll, suspended to a frame by the neck, with this inscription, "To the gibbet with the Austrian." Maria Antoinette Makers of History Comorre’s nature seemed altered; his prisons were empty, his gibbets untenanted. Legends & Romances of Brittany The case of 58 the man upon the gibbet by Leith Walk appeared scarce distinguishable from that I was now to consider as my own. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) It cannot be now: now it would be the gibbet.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) So many fathoms from a certain tree with arms like a gibbet, on a line with a stone on which is scratched the outline of a skull. The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won And when the inevitable end arrives—the revolution—who will be to blame in the sight of God, who will be gibbeted in public opinion? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) But the abuse of ridicule is not one of the least calamities of literature, when it withers genius, and gibbets whom it ought to enshrine. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors “Shame waits for you on the gibbet,” he broke in. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) As they were taken to Montfaucon, they kept crying “high and clearly” for their benefit of clergy, but were none the less pitilessly hanged and gibbeted. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The gibbet once stood on this heath, and in former times it seems to have been the place where executions usually took place. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations He ran every risk of contagion and of punishment in order to procure corpses from the hospital and the gibbet. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion True, Christianity was a secret society, and an illegal religion; but would it cease to be so when those harmless or respectable inhabitants of the place had been mounted on the rack or the gibbet? Callista : a Tale of the Third Century It stood like a gibbet, its head to one side, a pistol in its hand; but as Wiley moved the man crouched and drew back as if he feared to be seen. Shadow Mountain Tobit and his dog figured to great advantage; Haman swung conspicuously on his gibbet; and Jonah appeared most manfully leaping from the whale's mouth, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. Eighth Reader You will think of the gibbets, the triangles, the lime-pits, the tortures, the hangings of the past. George Brown What cared he for axe or gibbet now? The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts "Try to be like somebody," said the unlucky critic-bookseller to Lamartine; and he has been gibbeted for it, very justly, for the best part of a century. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Not 'mid the scenes that simple Goldsmith sought, And found a theme to elevate his thought; But you, great scribe, more greedy of renown, From Hounslow's gibbet drag a hero down. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches We’re that near the gibbet that my neck’s stiff with thinking on it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) Theft and pillage were strenuously dealt with, one man expiating his offence upon the citadel gibbet. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Did the shadow of the axe or gibbet fall athwart his dreams? The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts A little higher, at the very summit of the hill, stood the gibbet, and the wind made the chains clank as it trifled with them. The Broom-Squire The three went heavily up the grandiose stairway as if a gibbet waited at the top. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards There were gibbets at the gate as thick as scarecrows. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) The young Despenser was hanged on a gibbet fifty feet high, and a Parliament was called to decide what should be done with the king. Royal Children of English History If the truth were universally told of men's dispositions and actions, gibbets and wheels might be dismissed from the face of the earth. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The gibbet was on Mehetabel's left hand; on the right was the abyss. The Broom-Squire That night the bleaching skeleton of the venerable patriot Hermano was taken down from the gibbet where it had hung so long, by hands that left the revolutionary banner waving proudly in its place. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 He could scarcely retain his tears even now at the memory of the martyred patriots, whose ignominiously gibbeted bodies the police had only dared remove in the secrecy of the small hours. Dreamers of the Ghetto I’d like to see ’em dangling from the gibbet, and the crows picking their bones,” he said, smiting his fists together, walking to and fro. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Henry immediately suspended upon a gibbet two unfortunate Leaguers who were his captives. Henry IV, Makers of History Beyond lay the harbor, prickly with masts from the shipping, and flags everywhere, a maze of cross-trees and yards, red and black smokestacks and cranes that looked like gibbets. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Separately, they were villains enough, but together they would overturn England and get themselves hung for it on twin gibbets. The O'Ruddy A Romance But there he was suffered to hang unnoticed; or, if remarked, it was only concluded that another criminal had been added to the gibbet, as its second tassel. A Walk from London to Fulham We would gladly doubt the statement, if we could, that the head of this ill-fated chief was sent to Plymouth, where it was for a long time exposed on a gibbet. King Philip Makers of History For three days the body was exposed to the insults of the populace, and finally was hung up by the feet on a gibbet. Henry IV, Makers of History Then one of the 'Lieder ohne Worte,' then the 'Dead March'—all of them but the meagre and mutilated skeletons of themselves; things of gaps and tatters, like gibbet trophies. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences The cross had been transformed into a gibbet. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Clinton is reduced to great straits; he has already been the means of one officer's dying on a gibbet. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX A carpenter having neglected to make a gibbet ordered, on the ground of his not having been paid for a former one, was severely rated by the sheriff. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. An instance of this kind is furnished by the celebrated "Gyb Ghosts," or ghosts of the gibbet, described in More Glimpses of the World Unseen, p. Clairvoyance No more than a gibbet's rigid corpse which the fetters rust around! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Then she lifted an arm reeking with blood, and pointing through the window at a new-made gibbet and its dangling rope, smiled a faint and sickly smile, and vanished as a dying spark. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Indeed, we rejoice that our poor little Devil is now beyond the reach of their dripping steel and rickety second-hand gibbets. The Book of Khalid "Fellow," said he, "how dared you neglect making the gibbet that was ordered for me?" The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. E'en racks and gibbets would but consecrate, And death repeated be too kind a fate. The Battle of Bunkers-Hill Three gibbets dumb and tall, Against the east, with scrawny arms, outlined; Far off a lonely tower, left behind, With silver cross and ball. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 Just before entering the town, De Soto passed a high gibbet upon which three malefactors were hung in chains, swaying in the breeze. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots He would have stood in the Turkish Areopagus at Constantinople, defended himself somewhat Socratic before 327 his judges, and hung out his tung on a rickety gibbet in the neighborhood of St. Sophia. The Book of Khalid Long ago the cliff with its gibbet has been washed away by the sea. Bygone Punishments Let her know what men who have seen the world think of the visions, from which she would have awakened in a dungeon, and the poor fools, her fellow-dupes, under the gibbet! The Wild Geese And distant, round and dim, Behind the waste, behind the gibbets high, The witches' moon, with filmy bloodshot eye, Peering above the rim! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 The entire roof was off; one could see the rotting joists and beams, some fallen, some falling, the rest ready to fall, like the skeleton of a felon left to rot on an open gibbet. The Macdermots of Ballycloran The gibbet is for ordinary traitors; for him the stake,” etc., etc. The Book of Khalid For this crime Corbet was hanged and gibbeted in a field not far distant from the house where the murder was committed. Bygone Punishments That monument to honoured dead could never shed its hallowed spirit of peace again if once it had been outraged with the indignities of a gibbet! The Roof Tree For him the hemlock shall distil; For him the axe be bared; For him the gibbet shall be built; For him the stake prepared. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Ill success was punished there as a crime against the state; and whenever a general lost a battle, he was almost sure, at his return, of ending his life upon a gibbet. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) The reverse of this takes place with the letter g; here a single sign has a double power; in gibbet it is sounded as j, and in gibberish as g in got. b. A Handbook of the English Language A correspondent of the Bucks Herald says in 1795 he visited Bierton Feast, and at that period the gibbet was standing, with the skull of the murderer attached to the irons. Bygone Punishments Nor would it be possible to enforce the laws of morality by mere temporal sanctions, the fear of exile, the dungeon, or the gibbet, when conscience no longer enforced the dictates of religious faith. On Calvinism The next steps with these "enemies of righteousness" will be the rack, the gibbet, and a second edition of the infernal inquisition! Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors The gibbet was unlike our own, it had no platform, and no steps; but was a simple frame formed by two strong upright, and one horizontal beam. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France I bless the Lord, that ever he honoured the like of me with a bloody gibbet and bloody windy sheet for his noble, honourable and sweet cause. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies We are next told how, in the dark and dismal night, the traveller proceeded without dismay to the gibbet, and stood under it. Bygone Punishments Thirteen of his companions were condemned to the galleys; more than twenty to the gibbet; and Oge and Chavanne were tortured on the wheel. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The telegraph-poles beyond the burning warehouse lining the railroad spur that ventured down from the main line some miles away and terminated at Smock's, loomed up like lofty gibbets in the ghastly light. Anderson Crow, Detective Another battle with the crowd, and I stood in the rear of the gibbet. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France "Halters, bring halters!" they cried; "hang up the traitor bishop and his accomplices on the gibbet." A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Though dark as could be, yet he thought he could see The skeleton hanging on high; The gibbet it creaked; and the rusty chains squeaked; And a screech-owl flew solemnly by. Bygone Punishments But all the same her great grey eyes were riveted on the top of the hill, for there, against the sky, she did distinctly see the man dangling from the gibbet. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Two millers, in a wind-mill on the Sussex downs near Good-wood, were struck dead by lightning that morning; and part of the gibbet on Hind-head, on which two murderers were suspended, was beaten down. Highways and Byways in Surrey A looped cord passing through another pulley, was placed under his chin, the cord running along the cross-beam, and the end fixed to a wheel at the side of the gibbet. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France To take that tailor by the throat, and gibbet him in The New York Tribune? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The last man gibbeted in this country was James Cook, a bookbinder, at Leicester. Bygone Punishments Thomas Mathews tells us that Berkeley wished to hang it on a gibbet, but on exhuming his casket he found in it nothing but stones. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Than the drawing of the stage-coach in full gallop up to the gibbet in the dead of night, nothing could be well more frightful. Highways and Byways in Surrey On the following morning the condemned quitted his prison for the gibbet. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Looking to the left, I saw a negro hanging in gibbets at the foot of a ledge. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 Cook's body was suspended on a gibbet thirty-three feet high, on Saturday, August 11th, 1832, in Saffron Lane, Aylestone, near Leicester. Bygone Punishments One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature There they remain, the only gibbet on Gibbet Hill. Highways and Byways in Surrey The time has come to set up the Frog's gibbet made famous by Gleditsch. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Round about we saw stakes which looked like gibbets. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) The mention of the Halifax gibbet suggests a popular Yorkshire saying: "From Hell, Hull and Halifax, good Lord, deliver us." Bygone Punishments For the others a dark cloud rose on the horizon, and against this ashy background stood in relief bars, chains, and the fateful arms of the gibbet. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Those who have gibbeted themselves on the walls have also thrown the newspapers that held their lunch into the water, and bottles with the paper—a most unhappy spectacle. Highways and Byways in Surrey The gibbet becomes uprooted as they descend and ends by falling, dragged over by the weight of its heavy burden. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles We prayed for the humane Emperor of France, and wished him elevated on Haman’s gibbet. A Sailor of King George The gibbet was set up on a marsh situated at the west end of the town, now known as "Gibbet Marsh." Bygone Punishments In the background of all stands the cruel gibbet to which your own countrymen, the people you have loved with an all-absorbing love, shall presently commit you. The New Theology In his day it was formed "on the crest of the Down, round a post or limb of a gibbet"—similia similibus, you might suppose reading the list of heroes who met there. Highways and Byways in Surrey The experiment is repeated; but this time the gibbet is slanting and the Mole, hanging in a vertical position, touches the ground at a couple of inches from the base of the apparatus. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Passing round a point, going out of the harbour, I observed a gibbet with part of a human skeleton hanging on it. A Sailor of King George Booths were pitched near the gibbet, and great numbers of the people came to see the wretch suspended. Bygone Punishments A wife who for her lover's sake procured her husband's death was gibbeted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The Ring roars no longer round a gibbet, of course; a Grand Stand of vast dimensions overlooks the course from starting-gate to paddock; dukes no longer ride side by side with butchers to make bets. Highways and Byways in Surrey Will the Necrophori pass on, indifferent to the superb morsel which they see and smell a few inches above their heads, or will they make it drop from its gibbet? The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Sometimes it would be a man hanging on a gibbet and holding a heart in his hand as if he had been stealing hearts. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen On August 3rd he was executed at Durham, and his body was subsequently escorted by fifty soldiers and others to Jarrow Slake, and set up on a gibbet 21 feet high. Bygone Punishments It fills our streets with drunkards, our almshouses with loathsome wretches, our jails with poor criminals, and supplies our gibbets with victims. Select Temperance Tracts Hideous effigies of them were prepared and hung on gibbets in the market-place of Nismes by the public executioner, the magistrates and dragoons attending the sham proceeding with the usual ceremony. The Huguenots in France There shall be a spy in every man's house, a traitor on every hearth, a hangman in every village, a gibbet in every square. Vera or, The Nihilists Outside the town a large gibbet had been erected, round which stood the soldiers and several thousands of people. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Immediately, in a shaky voice, as from a tomb, came the response from the person behind the gibbet, "Cold and chilly, thank you." Bygone Punishments In the case of Mark it is noticeable that no sentence to the gibbet appears in the record, and I have found no order for it, or mention of it, in the papers on file. The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman Who Murdered Their Master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755; for Which the Man Was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman Was Burned to Death. Including, Also, Some Account of Other Punishments by Burning in Massachusetts Would he like to return to France at the daily risk of the rack and the gibbet? The Huguenots in France The grave cannot give back your dead, nor the gibbet your martyrs, but I shall be more merciful to you. Vera or, The Nihilists Turbulent nobles, like St. Pol and Armagnac, were brought to the block; treacherous ministers, like Cardinal La Balue, were kept for years in iron cages; vulgar criminals swung from gibbets on every highroad. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Weights were then tied to it, but still it floated upon the top of the water, and subsequently was again placed upon the gibbet. Bygone Punishments The body of Mark is said by Dr. Bartlett to have remained on the gibbet "until a short time before the Revolution." The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman Who Murdered Their Master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755; for Which the Man Was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman Was Burned to Death. Including, Also, Some Account of Other Punishments by Burning in Massachusetts He declared harshly that the prisoners must suffer according to the law—that the fugitives must go the galleys, and their guide to the gibbet. The Huguenots in France They gibbeted their own infamy in vainly seeking to dishonor the illustrious dead. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Those for whom he speaks are, though simple and godly men, yet charged with crimes that, were they true, ought to condemn them to a thousand fires and gibbets. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 The body of Peare was not permitted to remain long on the gibbet. Bygone Punishments Another incident to this punishment, though not peculiar to it, since it applied to all atrocious felonies, was the gibbeting, or hanging in chains. The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman Who Murdered Their Master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755; for Which the Man Was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman Was Burned to Death. Including, Also, Some Account of Other Punishments by Burning in Massachusetts The peasantry continued to brave all risks—of exile, the galleys, the rack, and the gibbet—and persevered in their assemblies, until the very ferocity of their persecutors became wearied. The Huguenots in France So many good people of late had perished on the gibbet, that hanging was no longer ignominious. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad Four gibbets on this eminence, stocked with corpses of Swedish inhabitants, attested the character of the government in the capital. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 Bewick, the famous artist and naturalist, in his pictures of English scenery introduced the gibbet "as one of the characteristics of the picturesque." Bygone Punishments Still the judges rode their circuits, leaving briefly minuted "calendars" in the hands of the executioners, who erected close behind them the gallows and the gibbet as monuments of their dispensation of "justice." The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman Who Murdered Their Master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755; for Which the Man Was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman Was Burned to Death. Including, Also, Some Account of Other Punishments by Burning in Massachusetts Half-a-dozen decaying corpses might sometimes be seen swinging from the gibbets on which the ministers had been hung. The Huguenots in France "Go tell her that Charles Stevens prefers death on the gibbet to becoming her husband." The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad Rather make My country's high pyramids my gibbet, And hang me up in chains! Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical The gibbet was taken down on April 10th, 1826, by order of the magistrates, and the remains of Lingard buried on the spot. Bygone Punishments This morning, indeed, they came from the town in a cart, and planted the great gibbet on Scarthey Point, at low water. The Light of Scarthey The names of these "others" were not mentioned, not being yet thought worthy of the gibbet. The Huguenots in France Puritanism was hung on gibbets—like the bones of the leading Puritans. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 For days carpenters, joiners, and builders had been at work in the market-place erecting a huge platform and a giant gibbet. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The inhabitants of Brigg petitioned against the gibbeting, as it was so near the town, and consequently that part of the sentence was remitted. Bygone Punishments But close to her in the whitest moonlight rose the great gibbet, gaunt and black, cutting the pale sky in two and athwart; and hanging from it was the black figure that swayed and swung. The Light of Scarthey When taken to the gibbet in the market-place, however, the old woman's resolution gave way, and she entreated to be taken back to the general, when she would confess everything. The Huguenots in France “Well,” replied I, “it maybe so, Olivarez; but mark my words, you will repent this, and I shall see you on a gibbet.” The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago The hangman now took it in hand, tied a rope round its neck, and dragged it to a gibbet, on which it was hung. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Jobling was tried at Durham Assizes, and condemned to be hanged and gibbeted. Bygone Punishments I well remember, in my young days, the clanking gibbet on the sands near Preston and the three tarred and iron-riveted carcases hanging, each in its chains, with the perpetual guard of carrion crows.... The Light of Scarthey To enforce conformity on his subjects, Louis XIV. had already driven some half-a-million of the best of them into exile, besides the thousands who had perished on gibbets, in dungeons, or at the galleys. The Huguenots in France Not a bush, not a path, only a few log-houses at long distances and wooden beacons like gibbets to define the Boer farms. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 "Do you mean to kill the little fine gentleman, and swing us all on the gibbet, you rascal?" screamed the Gypsy mother, who came up just as Jackanapes and the pony set off. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes On 14th April, 1891, passed away at the advanced age of 96, Jobling's widow, and it has been stated, with her death the last personal link with the gibbet was severed. Bygone Punishments The fellow did as he was told; But mark the downfall of the bold; His hopes are baulk’d, and, lo! he gains A rope and gibbet for his pains. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Among the crowd who watched the gallows being raised was a little lad, the town swineherd, who asked a bystander the meaning of the new gibbet. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race Lots of people have been hanged to a gibbet in chains on evidence no worse than that, and we told H.O. so till he cried. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune If thou hadst permitted that miscreant to perish, thy son would not now be rotting on yon gibbet. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom The accused was, after three market or meeting days, within the town of Halifax, next after his apprehension and being condemned, taken to the gibbet. Bygone Punishments The gibbets were spotted with blood and filth. Hunters Out of Space If we cut our own Throats, in our own wise Judgments, would you have them make a Law to gibbet us for it after we are dead? A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Follow Him to Mount Calvary; see Him there nailed upon an infamous gibbet, suffering every torture of mind and body to his very last breath. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus They rode towards the celebrated city; and when they were about half a mile distant from it, they perceived a gibbet, to which was suspended a tall, slender youth. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Towards the middle of the sixteenth century, the Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland, during a visit to England, witnessed an execution by the Halifax gibbet. Bygone Punishments The Times newspaper did good service in gibbeting this precious morceau, supplied by its indefatigable reporter, in its broad sheet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The few survivors fed upon weeds and carrion, robbing the graves and gibbets of their dead. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography You may elect to put me in jail, or throw me into the Danube, or swing me from a gibbet as a warning to all would-be monarchs and other malefactors. A Son of the Immortals Faustus climbed the gibbet, and cut the rope from the neck of his son. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom A further condition of the Halifax gibbet law is scarcely so clear as the preceding. Bygone Punishments He had his recreation in such a spectacle, as men can find their pleasure in the death-struggle of a malefacter on the gibbet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The beam was nothing less than the old gibbet of Falaise, according to the joiner who had sold it, and who had got this information from his grand-father. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life They would hang my husband to-morrow if it was in their power, and perhaps gibbet me with him. Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House Faustus wished to comfort her; but the Devil grasped him, and placed him once more beneath the gibbet at Worms. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom The gibbet axe, formerly in the possession of the Lord of the Manor of Wakefield, is now preserved at the Rolls Office of that town. Bygone Punishments When the reading of the play was finished and the wicked pirates stood in the shadow of the gibbet, he thanked me and excused himself from further attendance by reason of a prior engagement. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates He was caught red-handed, and hanged close to the Golden Farmer in chains on a gibbet of which the posts were still standing forty years ago. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science On the following day he reached the harbour of St. Julian, where he found a gibbet erected of yore by Magellan for the punishment of some rebellious members of his crew. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World They were suspended by cords from a gibbet, to be fired at by a platoon of soldiers. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John It is highly probable that in some instances the bodies would remain in terrorem upon the gibbet. Bygone Punishments But once a gibbet stood on Wapping Wharf, and pirates were hanged upon it. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates To intimate that the faithful discharge of your duty may expose you to gaol or gibbet ... is not very complimentary to the freedom of the Government under whose protection you are placed. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada And now we have been dragged from our happy seclusion and gibbeted. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Napoleon ordered that in each quarter the corps fixt there should form military commissions to try, shoot, and hang on gibbets the incendiaries taken in the act. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I It was not until 1752, by an Act of 25 George II., that gibbeting was legally recognised. Bygone Punishments In those golden days with which our comedy concerns itself, a gibbet stood on Wapping wharf and pirates stepped off the fatal cart to a hangman's jest. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates If any one tried To take a sly slide, He ordered him hanged on a gibbet. The Jingle Book These Evolution notions are absurd, monstrous, and fit only for the intellectual gibbet, in relation to the ideas concerning matter which were drilled into us when young. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The body of the Count of Harcourt had been secretly removed from the public gibbet by his family. The Story of Rouen On August 6th, 1759, he was hanged at York, and afterwards his body was conveyed to Knaresborough Forest, where it was gibbeted. Bygone Punishments Then he remembered the Valmy gibbet where a boy of twelve still hung that the roads of France might be safe, and his voice choked. The Justice of the King Protestantism was declared to be extinct; and the gibbet, and the stake, and confiscations, and banishments, rendered the decree, in due time, more than an idle boast. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II He entered the city in state—and while he passed under a triumphal arch, Mr. West, the Hobart Town delegate, was publicly gibbetted. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Life is precious in itself, but much more precious to one condemned to die,—to be caught out of the paws of the lion,—to be brought back from the gibbet. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning At the following March Assizes, he was tried and found guilty of the crime, sentenced to be hanged, and afterwards gibbeted. Bygone Punishments There it lay, grey and forbidding even with the yellow sunlight of dawn full upon it, and there, stark and clear, an offence against the sweetness of the new day, were the three royal gibbets. The Justice of the King The new machine was the gibbet, first set up in England in this year. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain. Romola Oh, have done, with your mutilated men and your sons on gibbets! At Fault |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。