| 单词 | hangman |
| 例句 | His sensitive eyes gazed gravely at the surrounding faces, swerved up to the shadowy hangman, then downward to his own manacled hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z "I just came down-" The hangman's horror clung round him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It included a description, photos, and a hangman’s noose. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On the third day of the new year, he walked through die Bottom down Carpenter’s Road with a cowbell and a hangman’s rope calling the people together. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m innocent!” the boy my age sobbed as they dragged him up onto the gallows and put the hangman’s noose around his neck. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Just before the hangman’s noose was put around his neck, Nathan Hale said brave words. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper was covered in her work trying to decode it, which looked like a bunch of unfinished hangman games minus the hanging men. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We’ve used up all our paper playing hangman, and my pencil is down to a nub. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The paper was covered in her work trying to decode it, which looked like a bunch of unfinished hangman games minus the hanging men. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The old man watched and waited—as a man who was to be hanged might submit to the hangman, but who would not need to help with the noose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A hangman’s noose dangled from the wall, as did assorted weapons and a blanket caked with blood. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She knew she sounded like Mom when they used to get in trouble for playing hangman during church. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The British had built their own hangman’s platform at the opposite end of the Commons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next four miles that we was riding into the forest, my mind didn’t come offen the hangman’s noose once. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The men in the pub are talking about the terrible state of the world and how in God’s name Hermann Goering escaped the hangman an hour before the hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Actually it was a little bit like a stick figure, like in hangman, but with more details. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z When he got to the top of the steps, Hickey turned around so the hangman could bind his wrists behind him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It is their job to kick away the posts on the signal from the hangman. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were wide as a hangman’s noose. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The hangman was doing a brisk trade in murderer’s wash water, but Beetle was at last able to secure a bottle. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With that pronouncement, the hangman kicked the barrel away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Draco paused to examine a long coil of hangman’s rope and to read, smirking, the card propped on a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Their legs are tied together at the ankles and knees so that they won’t kick wildly after the hangman springs the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Next, white cotton hoods will be placed over their heads, then the noose of the hangman’s rope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The hangman kicked the chair out from under him, and the boy’s body jerked as his neck was broken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Anand does a stellar job of sketching Singh’s trajectory from orphanage to hangman’s noose, and from obscurity into the pantheon of Indian heroes. Twenty Years After a Brutal Massacre, It’s Payback Time 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z If that’s true, avoiding the hangman’s noose qualifies as a legal miracle, even though the alternative was nothing to look forward to. The last trail of a Lincoln conspirator 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z That is, the hunchbacked hangman’s line from “Blazing Saddles”: “This one is a doozy.” ‘Liberté’ Review: A Miserable Orgy From the Provocateur Albert Serra 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The two banter as they await the hangman’s noose. 'Outlander' Recap: The Violence That Men Do 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Out it all pours: the vainglory, the moral equivocation and especially the furious envy of “Albert bloody Pierrepoint,” the “Number One hangman all them years,” with hundreds more executions to his credit. Review: ‘Hangmen,’ Offering the Last Word in Gallows Humor 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z That’s the unfairness of I.V.F. – everyone gets to critique your choices, standing as judge, jury and hangman: Why did you wait so long? Motherlode Blog: Addicted to I.V.F., or Addicted to Hope? 2014-01-28T01:46:11Z The chasm between what we say we are and what we really are in the digital age presides like the hangman’s arch over two seasons of drama and wit. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Heydrich, the powerful SS chief, was the principal architect of the Holocaust, nicknamed the “hangman of the Gestapo” and “the butcher of Prague.” 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The hangman is right, of course, about the injustices of vigilantes’ cavalier nonprocedural dispatch of the accused, and it’s as true now as it was in the eighteen-seventies. “The Hateful Eight”: Quentin Tarantino’s Playfully Adolescent Filmmaking 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z In his bathroom brooding raptors hooded like hangmen shifted sullenly upon their perches. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Scott, an ironic relation, in a way, for an actor who once said: “Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.” Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The play’s ingenious setup centers on Harry Wade, England’s second-best hangman, on the day in 1965 that the country effectively abolished executions. You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Their haunted carnival menace and hangman knells have largely given way to a psychotropic Cypress Hill lounge shuffle, too, over which Domo Genesis doesn't so much spit rhymes as drool them. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – review 2013-07-02T18:29:27Z The black comedy, about what happens to Britain’s second-best hangman on the day hanging is abolished, is scheduled to run at the Atlantic from Jan. 18 through March 4. Highlights From Atlantic Theater Company’s 2017-18 Season 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z We meet in the Norwegian singer's Oslo practice space, a tumbledown wooden house once home to the city's hangman. Singer Jenny Hval: 'I'm so cruel' 2013-04-18T05:00:01Z When a journalist wants an interview, the hangman struggles not only with the end of his hanging career, but also with being known as the second-best hangman in town. The New Season of Theater: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The hangman would eat a bunch of it when he was due to execute somebody. At Alnwick Castle, (don’t) pick your poison in this deadly garden 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “Hangmen” by Martin McDonagh, about a hangman facing the final days of capital punishment in England, won the award for best new plfay. Judi Dench Wins Eighth Olivier Award in London 1464-05-27T05:00:00Z But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation. You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z But in countercultural days, he claimed that a necktie was a hangman’s noose. Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z But do not pity the poor hangman with no one to kill; his self-pity is more than sufficient. Review: ‘Hangmen,’ Offering the Last Word in Gallows Humor 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z "I see the hangman's ready," a reporter says. Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 2010-04-03T05:20:00Z But the trial lasted only two days, and the book's penultimate chapter is given over to Britain's most famous hangman, Albert Pierrepoint – which tells you all you need to know about the verdict. Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami – review 2012-11-23T22:55:04Z Seems that “Wheel” is just hangman, but pricier. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Mazzini is introduced in prison awaiting his date with the hangman and finishing his memoirs, a litany of crime. A Comedy of Manners, and Multiple Homicide 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z We follow a man and woman who are fleeing the hangman; the man poached on the king’s land, and she killed an abusive husband. ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z This is followed by a game of hangman. The Private Life of Catherine Keener 2010-04-15T15:33:00Z They turn out to be an escaped condemned man, a hangman, and the escapee’s brother. Woody Allen’s romanticized rain (and Hemingway, and Toni Morrison and James Joyce) 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z In “The Hateful Eight,” Quentin Tarantino’s post-bellum western, Ms. Leigh’s Daisy Domergue spends nearly all her time handcuffed to a bounty hunter on the way to a promised date with a hangman’s noose. Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2 Vastly Different New Film Roles 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The writer's interest in the First Fleet goes back almost 10 years, when he was developing an idea for a TV movie and stumbled across the true story of how Australia got its first hangman. McGovern on story behind Banished 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Gary Simmons’ installation, “Duck, Duck, Noose” – a hangman’s noose surrounded by Ku Klux Klan hoods placed on wooden chairs – is more nightmarish than ever. 4 art exhibitions to see at Seattle-area galleries in December 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades. Best Buddies program helps high school students maintain connection during pandemic 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z When Merv Griffin created “Wheel of Fortune” in 1975 as television’s answer to hangman, it spent its early years on ratings life support. This Broadcast TV Genre Continues to Thrive. (What Are Game Shows?) 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z After defying death in stormy seas and on a cold island, Bulkeley and his mates faced the possible threat of the hangman’s noose. ‘The Wager’ recounts harrowing tale of shipwreck, mutiny on a British warship 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Last year’s attacks in Maryland included spray-painted hangmen and swastikas along public hiking trails, the words “Jews not welcome” scrawled across the entrance sign of a high school, and hateful words directed at Jewish students. As antisemitic incidents double in Md., state lawmakers pitch solutions 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Exxon Mobil Corp. violated federal law for failing to take sufficient action as five hangman’s nooses were displayed at its facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the U.S. government said in a lawsuit. Exxon Mobil sued as 5 nooses displayed at Louisiana facility 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z The hangman and his assistants arrived promptly at the condemned cell of London's Holloway Prison on what was an icy Tuesday morning. Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover's crime 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z One of the finalists depicts a turbaned cleric reaching for a hangman’s noose as he drowns in blood, while another shows Khamenei clinging to a giant throne above the raised fists of protesters. Iran closes French institute over Charlie Hebdo cartoons 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z And where is joy in Montgomery County after police last month found antisemitic graffiti, including swastikas, hangmen and white-supremacist language, also in Bethesda? Opinion | Peace on earth, but not just for some 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Last month, police investigated antisemitic graffiti, including swastikas, hangmen, and white supremacist language, found in Bethesda. Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Montgomery County high school 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Montgomery County police are investigating antisemitic graffiti that included swastikas and hangmen discovered in Bethesda, Md., early Monday morning. Antisemitic graffiti found near Bethesda Trolley Trail 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z A petition to spare Freddy from the hangman's noose received more than a million signatures. Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover's crime 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Charles V, the future Holy Roman Emperor, was born in Ghent but later squashed a revolt, forcing the locals to parade through the streets wearing hangman’s nooses around their necks in punishment. Ghent is Belgium’s unsung capital of cool 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Bacon escaped the hangman’s noose, instead dying of dysentery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z A third posted a manual on how to tie a hangman’s knot. ‘So the Traitors Know the Stakes’: The Meaning of the Jan. 6 Gallows 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z But before the sentence could be carried out, Muharrami was suddenly spared the hangman’s rope. Iran executes more people than almost any other nation. A pop star is trying to change that 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Moments later, the hangman tied his blindfolds, and the bodies of Leisler and Milborne swung lifeless from the gallows of Manhattan. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes. Perspective | To understand the Ukraine-Russia conflict, look to colonialism 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The black hoods were placed over the men’s heads, and with a downward swoop of his hat, the sheriff signaled the hangmen, and both men dropped. California is closing San Quentin’s death row. This is its gruesome history 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z I saw them erect a scaffold and a hangman's noose — they were serious about dragging Vice President Mike Pence out there and stringing him up. I was there for the day that poisoned America — and I think we can still recover 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z A hangman’s noose is symbolic of the lynching of Blacks, mostly in southern states, and stretches back to the nation’s slavery past and Jim Crow era. Michigan resident says noose in window meant for politicians 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Israel condemned on Sunday the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his would be a "regime of brutal hangmen" with which world powers should not negotiate a new nuclear deal. Israel’s Bennett warns against nuclear talks with Iran’s “hangmen regime” 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Stephenson retired on Jan. 21, just as the hangman was braiding the nooses for DirecTV and Warners. Column: AT&T got nothing but pain from its WarnerMedia merger. It's well deserved 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s a ghost town named Second Garrotte in the Sierra commemorated as a California historical landmark for its “famous hangman’s tree.” Column: California has a history of racist lynchings, too. Ignoring that fact is mass delusion 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The execution drew national media coverage that focused on a Black man being executed by a white, female sheriff with the help of a professional hangman. ‘Never forget’: Town installs markers for lynching victims 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Enough to hurl death threats at the vice president while a hangman’s noose dangled outside. Opinion | Ron Johnson is a racist 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Groups of them began chanting, "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence" — and a hangman's noose hung from a tree near the U.S. MAGA menace comes for Mike Pence: Trump's enablers are being threatened by a mob of their own making 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Using a handle which loosely translates as “hangman”, Shiraishi invited them to his apartment in Zama, promising to help them die, Jiji said, citing the indictment. Tokyo court sentences man to death for 2017 murders of 9 people contacted via Twitter -media 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman,” Whipple said Saturday after the threats were revealed. Man charged with threatening Wichita mayor over mask mandate 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman,” Whipple said. Gov. Kelly says its time to tone down ‘anti-mask rhetoric’ 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman – me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple told the Eagle. Biden accuses Trump of trying to wish away Covid ahead of Wisconsin rally – live 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman - me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple said. Police: Man upset with mask mandate threatens Wichita mayor 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple said. One arrested in threat to kidnap and kill Wichita mayor over COVID-19 mask mandate 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z A mock noose and a hangman’s scaffold were hung in the square, along with cardboard cutouts of leaders. ‘We need justice’: seething protesters descend on the streets of Beirut 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z “We have a hangman out here called ‘George’ and so, you know, with the theme of ‘Hangtown,’ I hung him.” Column: Chop down the lynching tree from this California city’s logo? Probably not so fast 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z “Electric chair, hangman noose, firing squad,” he said, “let the public see it.” Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights activist, dies at 97 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z A photograph of the hanging figuring showed ordinary knots rather than a hangman’s noose. Milwaukee firefighters face discipline in figurine incident 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z He wasn’t surprised, recounting the time someone left him a doll with a hangman’s noose and a racial slur in the high school locker room. George Floyd protests reached deep into rural California. The reactions were mixed, sometimes scary 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z These include a book by American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell, a hangman's noose decal, a costume of a lynching victim, children's toys featuring the alt right symbol Pepe the Frog, and Nazi memorabilia. Amazon is not an ally: The company has no moral high ground when it comes to anti-racism 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z But instead of a scarf, a hangman’s knot was on the woman’s lap, an image that critics said was highly offensive and evoked the lynchings of black people in the Deep South. Mississippi State Football Coach Must Visit Civil Rights Museum After Noose Tweet 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia topped the list, and Sri Lanka grabbed headlines with a job posting for hangmen. She was found guilty of killing her husband. Her punishment: hanging. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Sri Lanka has recruited two hangmen as it prepares to carry out four executions - the first in 43 years. Sri Lanka hires first two hangmen in 43 years 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z Prison authorities are reportedly recruiting two hangmen after two others left without executing anyone. Sri Lanka planning executions after 43-year moratorium 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000. Hangman's notebook sold for £20,000 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z On death row in Malawi, Byson Kaula was nearly executed three times - but on each occasion the hangman stopped work before hanging all the prisoners on his list. ‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The country has struggled to find a permanent executioner after its last hangman resigned five years ago. Sri Lanka begins recruitment for hangmen 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The last hangman resigned five years ago after seeing the gallows and going into shock. Sri Lanka hires first two hangmen in 43 years 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z It was as if Kemp, who refused to step down as secretary of state while overseeing the election where he was running for governor, was playing a game of hangman with democracy. Georgia doesn't need another voter suppressor running its elections | Carol Anderson 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z His book dismisses as a case of mistaken identity one theory that Mr. Richmond served, at the age of 13, as hangman at the execution of the American revolutionary Nathan Hale in 1776. 200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The list was drawn up, but the hangman didn't finish it - and each time, by chance, Byson was among those left alive at the end of the day. ‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The last hangman resigned in 2014 after seeing the gallows for the first time and going into shock. Sri Lanka begins recruitment for hangmen 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “I can see him as a giant creator but also a huge hangman,” Mr. Blinovsky said. The Case of the Disappearing Stalin Statue Roils a Russian City 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The staff gives residents cognitive exercises, such as puzzles, tracing, and hangman. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z If criticism is a capital offense, we must consider the awkward possibility that several current and former Trump administration officials are on the hangman’s dance card. Opinion | How many Benedict Arnolds can one administration hold? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z For the sailor and the hangman, it had been indispensable in the past, the narrator declared. At George Washington’s Mount Vernon, a luscious crop of cannabis nears harvest time 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Instead, the boys entertained themselves with tic-tac-toe, and Mr. Lyons taught them how to play hangman. Could You Make It Through Dinner Without Checking Your Phone? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z For parts of three decades, the Molly Maguires defied the law in the region until a secret agent infiltrated their ranks and the hangman’s rope ended their reign. ‘The Molly Maguires’ real story still attracts interest 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z They played hangman and trivia and bingo and beanbag toss. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z BOULDER, Colo. — The world-record holder in the Ironman triathlon had what is known as a hangman’s fracture, a broken C2 vertebra, like that found in someone who has died by hanging. This Man Expects to Run a 2:50 in the Boston Marathon on Monday 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z They play hangman in English, using a rock to scratch words into the concrete roof. For an American teen whose parents were deported to Mexico, an agonizing choice 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Zimbabwe’s last execution was in 2005, partly because no one was willing to be the hangman. Zimbabwe’s president releases thousands from prison 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The state only had to provide a courtroom and a hangman, Aurand wrote. ‘The Molly Maguires’ real story still attracts interest 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z You sold the rope to your own hangman, and there is no turning back. Coal Country Divides Over an Unrepentant Boss’s Senate Bid 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z An oil painting, titled “boogie man”, shows a woman held prostrate beneath the hangman’s noose, her head held back by a headless man wearing a pair of red gloves. The art born of opioid addiction 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z He was thrust into the world’s spotlight at the end of World War II as the hangman for 10 Nazi war criminals. New book features Kansas man who executed Nazi war criminals 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But will they reach the hangman in time? The Afghan feature film 'A Letter to the President' depicts the fearlessness required of a woman who stands up to men and tradition 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Edwin Jesus, who began taking advanced classes this fall, interjected often, throughout a game of hangman. Seeing an Opening to Leave Her Husband, She Took It and Didn’t Look Back 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The hangman’s job has been vacant for over a decade, but justice ministry permanent secretary Virgina Mabhiza last month said recent months have seen a “flood” of applications in the economically struggling nation. Zimbabwe’s Mugabe says he favors resumption of executions 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Grover Cleveland acted as the hangman at an execution while serving as a county sheriff. Donald Trump, Ford Motor, ‘Twin Peaks’: Your Monday Briefing 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z MacLean is hopeful that there may be Kansas residents who remember stories about Woods that could lead to more understanding about the Nazi hangman. New book features Kansas man who executed Nazi war criminals 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Grover Cleveland was a hangman who performed executions as a county sheriff. Saudi Arabia, Hassan Rouhani, Real Madrid: Your Monday Briefing 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Depicting a country that Rushdie says “is and is not Pakistan”, it charts the fateful clash between its democratically elected leader and his obsequious, pious general and eventual hangman. Top 10 novels about Pakistan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z It was only the abolition of the death penalty just before his trial that saved him from the hangman's noose. Ian Brady letters: Inside the mind of the Moors Murderer - BBC News 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The Jews had retaliated with bombs and mines, leaving a hangman’s noose on the scene of each assassination. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest cause for hope is we the have experience of dodging the hangman’s rope which our rivals do not. Premier League relegation battle: the fans’ verdict on who’s going down 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z To this slogan, made popular by T-shirts Donald Trump supporters wore at his rallies, my would-be hangman added his offer: “I will assemble for you.” In Trump’s America, ‘pizzagate’ could be the new normal 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Fake images show a prominent female leader in a hangman’s noose. Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Their demands go far beyond wanting the hangman’s noose for the alleged killers of the girl from Kopardi. Millions march in a sea of saffron - the silent rage of India’s ignored farmer caste 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Physically, it was hardly an improvement on Guantánamo: a hall of grimy cells sat near a gallows, and a diorama in the lobby showed a hangman preparing to dispatch a prisoner. Why Obama Has Failed to Close Guantánamo 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z As Andre places a hangman’s noose around his neck, he asks onlookers to “bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.” 'Turn: Washington's Spies' recap: Andre and Woodhull meet different fates 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z "Local election day for sitting prime ministers is supposed to be a day of dread, waiting for the knock on the door like a condemned man waiting for a hangman," he said. Elections: Labour's Sadiq Khan 'set to win London mayoral race' - BBC News 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z And an image of Leila de Lima, a local lawmaker and a critic of Mr. Duterte, depicted her facing a hangman’s noose. Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z For Gawker, whose parent company has a net worth of roughly $250 million, it was less a line than a hangman’s noose. Drawing the Line on Gossip After the Gawker Trial 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z It was an intellectual execution administered by a most genial hangman. A Bill Buckley Lesson for Conservatism Today 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z A hangman’s noose dangled from a tree branch, a sign beneath it reading, “Solution to Tyranny.” Lesson for Stalemated Sides in Oregon: A Texas Standoff Without End 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z They are a pernicious lot guided by the harsh codes of an untamed land where a hangman roams for hire and the sheriff has the oily manner of a corrupt preacher. 'Hateful Eight's' Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson touch raw nerve of racism 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z He then grabbed his tie and yanked it up like a hangman's noose, signifying a life of playful self-destruction as the afternoon scene erupted with flailing musicians, tumbling crowd-surfers and splashes of water. After rehab, Zac Carper leaves FIDLAR party onstage, but it's still wild 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Luther escaped the hangman’s noose in part because he won the backing of a German prince fed up with Rome. When Luther Shook Up Christianity 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work. Sri Lanka hires new hangmen for 'light administrative duty' - BBC News 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z As far as he was concerned, the appointment with the hangman already had been delayed too long, he told aides. The king demanded vengeance and ‘Zarqawi’s woman’ was sent to the gallows 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “Our folklore bled with the names of informers who had sold out their brethren to hangmen and worse in the lands of our ancestors.” Whitey Bulger, Inside Man 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z "My father was a hangman, and his father was a hangman, and his father and grandfather before him - since the times of the East India Company." The Pakistani hangman and his family tradition - BBC News 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Hangmen tells the story of "the second-best hangman in England" on the day in 1965 when hanging is abolished. Martin McDonagh's Hangmen play leads Royal Court season - BBC News 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Sri Lanka says it has hired two new executioners to replace the previous hangman, who quit shortly after seeing the gallows for the first time. Sri Lanka hires new hangmen for 'light administrative duty' - BBC News 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z One video, he said, gave instructions on tying a hangman’s noose. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Struggles With Suicides Among Its Young 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Speaking of Jesse Jackson, who called the Ferguson jury verdict a “hangman’s noose,” how is he even allowed to open his mouth anymore? CHARLES HURT: Empty promises in wake of Ferguson 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z There is no pre-or post-hanging psychological counselling for hangmen, and no limit to the number of hangings one executioner may perform before he is given a break. The Pakistani hangman and his family tradition - BBC News 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z This was a militia, in the words of a local reporter, “desperate in its determination to leave no work for the hangman”. When Jihad Came to the Australian Outback The position of executioner fell vacant in 2014 when the previous hangman quit citing stress soon after seeing the gallows in the capital Colombo. Sri Lanka hires new hangmen for 'light administrative duty' - BBC News 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The poem tells of the chill that falls over the prison as the execution and “the hangman with his little bag” approach. The beau of Reading jail: was prisoner 1122 Oscar Wilde’s lover? 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z So our hero straps it on for one last mission, the CIA gets its bad guy, and in a very special season finale Brody earns a date with the hangman. Showtime's Rebooted 'Homeland' Revels In the Joys Of The Job In Season 4 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z So our hero straps it on for one last mission, the CIA gets its bad guy, and Brody earns a date with the hangman. Showtime's Rebooted 'Homeland' Revels In the Joy Of The Job In Season 4 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z For while selling shirts from the back of a bicycle pays Kumar's rent, his vocation lies elsewhere: the 52-year-old is one of a handful of officially registered professional hangmen in India. View to a kill: Indian hangman prepares for his first execution 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A good hangman’s noose is no casual thing. Book review: ‘The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose,’ by Jack Shuler His first project was a hangman game, iHang, but Kheir was unable to sell it because Apple did not recognize the Palestinian territories on its registration system. Spermania: The West Bank's First Video Game 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The delay between conviction and execution a matter of weeks - the delay between the hangmen entering the cell and death a matter of seconds. Weekendish: Best longer reads from the week 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z At one stage, the north-eastern state of Assam was forced to issue a nationwide appeal for a hangman. View to a kill: Indian hangman prepares for his first execution 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z And it has meant that lethal injection is now facing the same questions as the electric chair, the gas chamber and the hangman’s rope before it. America has a killing problem that has nothing to do with murder 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z In his 1964 trial for perjury and obstruction of justice relating to an underlying stock swindle, including an allegation that Cohn had conspired to bribe a U.S. Attorney, Cohn twice cheated the hangman. If John Gotti Was The 'Teflon Don', Then Roy Cohn Was The 'Teflon Rogue' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Records at the Indiana State Archives reveal the electric chair was built with lumber salvaged from the hangman’s scaffold. Research into relative’s execution leaves its mark 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z The anti-hanging demonstrators always assume that the hangmen will arrive at a prison shortly before the execution, but Allen and his assistant spent the night in the officers’ mess. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z "If he wanted to, I would train him. But he's studying banking and has just applied for some post working in the accounts department of Indian railways," said the aspirant hangman. View to a kill: Indian hangman prepares for his first execution 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In Nasser's Egypt the hangman and the torturer were kept busy, as was the government censor and the secret policeman. The dissident who's too old for fear 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Most suggestions, he says, involve standards of measurement, from the dimensions of a nun's habit to the capacity of a cement truck and the length of an ammunition clip to that of a hangman's rope. Whole nine yards of what? 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Most suggestions involve standards of measurement, from the dimensions of a nun's habit to the capacity of a cement truck and the length of an ammunition clip to that of a hangman's rope. 10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z I shake hands with the public hangman, then his assistant. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Even though they are rarely called on to carry out an execution, hangmen are paid a monthly stipend by local state governments of about 3,000 rupees or £30. View to a kill: Indian hangman prepares for his first execution 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Describing transparency around the process as “fundamentally important” to analyses of an execution’s constitutionality, Bye accused Missouri of hiding “behind the hangman’s cloak”. Rusty Bucklew awaits execution in Missouri: 'Are they gonna screw it up?' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “In the house of the hangman,” Der Spiegel wrote, “the rope was spoken of as never before.” How Meryl Streep helped the Nazi hunters 2014-05-09T19:45:00Z Properly done, the thick hangman’s knot is designed to strike the prisoner’s skull with such force that he is unconscious as his neck snaps and the rope chokes away his life. America’s Long and Grisly Search for the Perfect Way to Kill 2014-04-30T19:51:47Z Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z One man held up a piece of yellow poster board with a childish drawing of four men stepping forward into hangman’s nooses. Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty in India Rape Case 2013-09-12T05:27:28Z Five men were wearing black hoods, with hangman’s nooses around their necks. Four Men Convicted in Rape Case That Transfixed India 2013-09-10T07:16:52Z Sentenced to death, he managed to cheat the hangman by taking cyanide on 15 October 1946. Goering's cigars to go under hammer 2013-08-21T05:16:56Z Several were friends from the sideshow: the ventriloquist with his dummy; the hangman; the man with shrunken flipper-like arms with his wife, a burlesque showgirl, both naked. City Room: The Great Fredini Dreams of a 3D Sideshow in Coney Island 2013-08-04T16:00:02Z Wordlessly the hangman steps back, places a hand on the lever which operates the trap, and gives a signal to the officers, who release Pascoe’s arms. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Although there have been no hangings since 1976 two hangmen were recently recruited but were later reported to have been sacked after absconding. Sri Lanka death row decision urged 2013-04-25T10:19:04Z He has cheated the hangman, because that’s where so many of us wanted and anticipated those wheels would deliver him. Cheated by Death 2013-03-12T14:00:00Z Then there is a serious practical problem: there are only one or two hangmen available in India. Should India abolish the death penalty? 2012-08-29T11:29:08Z Death has a speaking part, and complains that it has become difficult for him to “to tell the hangman from the hanged.” Jack Richardson, New York Playwright, Dies at 78 2012-07-05T01:10:44Z In an hour or so the hangmen will return to the block and enter the cellar-like room underneath the trap doors. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z He's "a cosmic leader of the opposition", "God's hangman", "a criminal mastermind", and "the father of lies". Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-22T07:00:01Z I suppose you’d admire the hangman and shake hands with him on the scaffold. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z He will admit of no more than I have said," answered Sir Robert Croyland: "it is as vain to entreat him, as to ask the hangman to delay his fatal work. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z Unfortunately, too," said the commander, "all the papers of Hatr�aumont, if I remember right, were ordered to be burnt by the common hangman. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z I'll have a little way of my own that will make you wish that his end at the hands of the hangman were yours. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z "Hanging With Friends" plays like hangman, where one player thinks of a word for the other to guess. There's loads of video games that all ages can enjoy together 2012-04-20T19:13:04Z 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 We all wanted it to end, for the whole affair was ghastly; and yet we dreaded the end, just as a hangman must have no liking for his duty. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z Which of us would have had heart to argue with men who might next day deliver us to the hangman? The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He set to work at his self-appointed task with the same rare vigor and cunning that had so long enabled him to elude the hangman and to live on better men's money. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Commerce cannot harmonise with slavery, with the tyrannical exaction of imposts, with persecutors, or with hangmen. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z This fellow implored mercy at his hands very dolefully, telling Lolonois he was constituted hangman of that ship, and if he would spare him he would tell him faithfully all that he should desire. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z I drew back my sword, and then paused a moment; for I had no liking for the work, which was the hangman's job. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z One of the men came into the library, and pulling down the books, scattered them on the floor, and cried: "Look ye here, sirs, what Popish stuff is this, fit for the hangman's burning!" The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z “He might have been at this moment in Ipswich gaol, and from thence he would only have escaped through the hangman’s hands.” The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Let us abjure such vulgarities as silk collars, white silk linings, and so forth, which attempt to beautify this monstrosity, as a hangman might wreathe his gallows with roses. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Rousseau wrote in reply to Helvetius, but when the Parliament of Paris condemned the work “De l’Esprit,” and it was in consequence burned by the common hangman, Rousseau withdrew his refutatory volume. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z And ours--we thought--was the very hangman's work. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z A Spanish proverb declares that to reach perfection a ripe fig must have three qualifications: "A neck for the hangman, a robe for the beggar, a tear for the penitent." The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z If a rescuing force were now ready to attack the hangman and the thousand-bayoneted guard around him, it would be too late. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z I found that Checco had just been hearing mass, and he was as solemn and silent as a hangman. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z "I am no hangman!" cried the plotter, with a miserable assumption of dignity. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z You'll fight hard—when the hangman and his mates come quietly into your cell at daybreak to pinion you. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Great care was of course taken to destroy this abominable heretical publication, which was burnt by the common hangman in Geneva, Frankfort, and several provinces of France. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z “The five prisoners approached the priests almost at the same moment and kissed the cross; after which they were taken by the hangmen each to his or her rope.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z They all sprang back; the hangman dug the spurs into his horse. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z Thou art a rogue meet for the hangman's hands. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Dear New England! yes! it is safe to say that the poem is good; whatever Mrs. Grundy may think, she will not have it burned by the hangman if it is not. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z To the Archbishop his letter was of so shameful a nature, that the English having perused it, ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman, not permitting the Archbishop to read it. An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol II (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. 2012-03-03T03:00:18.053Z While some of our people may die by the hand of the hangman, my life would be spared. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z "Yes," said I, bitterly, "we can cheat the hangman with what I have in this little flask." Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Fourteen standards taken from the adherents of the Pretender were publicly burnt at Edinburgh, by the common hangman. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The face of the spectre is "pale, and very dreadful" to behold; and its neck, it is averred, shows the livid mark of the hangman's noose. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Silently the hangman tied the rope before the eager waiting assembly; then a momentary hush passed over the crowd212—the executioner's duty was done. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z The 'scrag-boy,' who wore a demon's dress, with a hump and a horned mask that none might guess who did the hangman's work, was a familiar object in the prison-yard below. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z You Tory hangman," said Mount, scowling, "if I ever took a penny from you it was to help drive you and your thieving crew out of the land! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Perjury out of a single word can make a hangman's rope and noose. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z The gallows-tree bore fruit through all the year, and the hangman was the busiest official in the kingdom—but the criminals increased. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Then the hangman kneeled down and asked her forgiveness, whom she forgave most willingly. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z I would not move a finger to save him from the hangman. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z In their absence they were convicted, their property confiscated, the parents sentenced to die by the hangman, the daughters to be under the gallows during the execution of their mother, and then to be exiled. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z As the hangman was also adorned with yellow ruffs, it is no wonder that Coke’s prediction was amply fulfilled. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Six years later, namely, in 1643, the Lords and Commons ordered the “Book of Sports” to be burned by the common hangman, at Cheapside and other public places. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z Thus, I do not want to save the hangman a job. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z The negro hangman, seeing the fate of his predecessors, threw himself passionately at the feet of the Buccaneer chief, and exclaimed in Spanish, "If you will not kill me I will tell you the truth." The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The hangman did not remove his eyes from his daughter's face, and she frequently nodded at him and smiled. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z On Ascension Day, May 23, 1498, with cheerful resignation, he met death at the hand of the hangman. Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history 2012-01-12T03:00:13.267Z A few criminals, however, preferred the hangman’s knot to the marriage tie, if we may believe the rude rhymes of our ancestors. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z He owns that he cannot well complain she served him ill, but he wanted to repay her in some sort for her innuendo about his fate at the hangman's hands, and similar favours. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z He sent with them a negro hangman, desiring him to kill on the spot all they should take, except Lolonnois, the captain, who was to be brought alive in triumph to the Havannah. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Everyone, they said, was bound to execrate the class to which the hangman and his family belonged, for all who associated with such persons would surely be contaminated. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z The schoolmaster was one of those incapable men that treated his children as hangmen and bailiffs treat their prisoners. Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history 2012-01-12T03:00:13.267Z He was condemned to death, and the sentence was duly carried out by the hangman. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z Frost, frost personified as a mischievous fellow; Jack Ketch, a public hangman—from one so named under James II.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z A simple tombstone, which had been erected to his memory in Kirkcaldy parish church, was in 1661 publicly broken at the cross by the hand of the common hangman, but was restored in 1746. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z I was greatly alarmed to learn that this bold boy had cast his eyes upon the hangman's lovely daughter. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z If through the wild woods he extended his reign, And death and the hangman were both in his train, Cornwallis no longer disturbs your repose, His lordship is dead or at least in a doze. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z "No, no," replied Cazotte, "the hangman's cart will be your last carriage, and even greater ladies than you will have to ride in it." Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z At Boston they were whipped with a knotted whip, with all the strength of the hangman. Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 2011-12-28T03:00:44.040Z The brother be hanged," cried I. "Not by the Russian hangman. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z When I returned to my companions and they asked me who the girl was, I answered: 'The hangman's daughter.' The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z You would think that the hangman had got hold of you, to hear him yell into your ears. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The hangman danced on the corpse——Stone sweating blood nine months, broken this night.” The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z They saw the hangman with his black bag shuffling through the gloom, and like cowed hounds they crept silently back to their cells. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z When a man murders, and aer wanted by the hangman, when he begins trying his best to murder others, then's the time fer him to go under. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z They were hangmen all, and the awful inheritance fell to him: there was no escape, for the terrible people held him to the trade. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z He had a morbid horror of the hangman’s rope since it had dangled so perilously near his own neck. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z I feel a sore itch of rope on my neck; but may it not be the hangman that will scratch me for it. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Then there is the awful thirst that tortures the victim and another introduction of an apparently trivial detail, "the gardener's gloves" worn by the hangman. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z If by the hangman, he is told that, provided he repents before eight o'clock in the morning, he may find himself nestling in Abraham's bosom before nine. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z I was a hangman's daughter, and my parents were forbidden to present me for baptism; nor could any priest be found who was willing to bless me in the name of the Holy Trinity. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z It was impossible, she declared, to accept comfort with the idea of the hangman’s rope ever present in her mind. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z The thing was taken up and given to the hangman for cremation, but he could neither burn it nor the rags which enwrapped it until the day after the feast of Ascension. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z In any case he could not hand her over to the hangman. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z A professional hangman couldn’t have fashioned a neater noose. Stalin Pens Melodrama, Author Turns Tyrannical in London Farce 2011-11-07T00:26:58Z It certainly is not her fault that her father is a hangman, nor his either, since, alas, hangmen must be.' The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z Needless to add that the book was burnt by the common hangman. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Now his eldest son must die by drowning—saved the hangman something, perchance—we shall see what comes of the one that is left. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Let us consider the tools that society must forge and maintain for its defence: the cunning detectives, the jailers, the hangmen. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The last three rioters were to be hung, but the hangman so bungled his task that two of the criminals, one a Blue the other a Green, fell to the ground alive. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z I was summoned before him and accused of defending the hangman's daughter against the statements of an honest Christian girl. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z When at the instance of the French ambassador, Claude's book was burned by the common hangman, Evelyn ominously exclaimed: "No faith in Princes." The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z As the hangman adjusted the rope, he observed a singular smile illumine the features of his victim. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Let the evil-doer be his own judge, the judge his own hangman.” Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Under the general law against heresy their books were burnt by the hangman, they were searched for signs of witchcraft, they were imprisoned for five weeks and then sent away. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The hangman is ill and unable to protect his daughter, even if he dared. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z I shall need no hangman; for I shall even hang myself, now my friend Butt has shed his last drop of life. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z In this state, he mounted the ladder, and the hangman fulfilled his office. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z But Ulenspiegel did not cross himself, saying that he would never pray to God after the same fashion as those hangmen. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z The head and bust of the Emperor drawn on a colossal scale, a hangman's noose around his throat, is mounted on a vast pyramid of human heads, his decapitated victims. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z He told me I had caused great ill-feeling among the brothers and the people, and asked what devil had me in possession that I should walk into church with the daughter of the public hangman. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z The truly annihilating effect of these letters upon the reputation of the powerful order could not be checked by their being burnt by order of Parliament by the hangman at Aix in a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z "Oh, brother," cried he, "give me to the hangman for doing so." On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z And the little children ran away when they saw him, for they had been told that he was a hangman. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z May the hangman take you with such discipline! Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z But where is the sanctuary that would receive the hangman's daughter? The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z The Polish Socinians took occasion from this to send the king a Racovian Catechism; but in 1614 it was, by order of parliament, burned by the hands of the hangman. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Pan Gideon began to relate how it was, painting with such blackness the deeds of Tachevski that a hangman might have been called in immediately to take him. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z Philip will grow up to be a common hangman, being the child of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, the destroyer of our country. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Ay, what though it were cut off altogether, if you get your wife's back without being coloured blue by the hangman? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z My eyes wander to the south, where the Galgenberg is, and I think unceasingly of the poor child of the hangman. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z At last I was taken into an ornate room, where I had my first talk with this redoubtable individual, who was popularly supposed to be the hangman of the Young Turks. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z I was in the ant-hill itself, but Babinich flew into my face because of my errand: 'Go,' said he, 'to the hangman! The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z At this sight, at the aspect of all those diabolical countenances expressing hatred or else the vile curiosity of men accustomed to the hangman's office, Philippe Goulenoire sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Dickens never did any more artistic work than when he painted the aristocratic objectors to popular education in their natural hideousness with Bill Sikes and Dennis the hangman for a harmonious background. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Besides, I know a path leading to the hangman's hut by a shorter route.' The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z I hope he has already been hanged, because only the hangman's cord could remove his atavistic cruelty. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z At last the chamber servant came with a letter; when the king burst out, 'Go to the hangman, maybe evil news will spoil my fun!' The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z It was not the letters,--I might have thrown them to the hangman, or tossed them into the fire, for they refer not to my duties; it was not the letters. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Selfishness is selfishness, and it is as utterly loathsome in a bishop as in Bill Sikes, in a judge as in Dennis the hangman. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z At length we reached the Galgenberg, where stands the hangman's hut, and a few moments' climb brought us near the door. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z In this volume Galiani parodied with exquisite felicity, in a series of discourses on the death of the public hangman, the styles of the most pompous and pedantic Neapolitan writers of the day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z "Why the hangman does not some one of you marry her?" The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z That they are all dishonored men, against whom outlawry has been declared, infamous and condemned, with declarations and trials hanging over them, children of the hangman. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z But even if Gaddafi's days end, like Saddam's, with a hangman's noose, the parallels are inexact. Intimidated no more, Libyans end Gaddafi's rule 2011-08-23T20:43:43Z At ten minutes before twelve o’clock the prisoner was brought from his cell and pinioned by the hangman, who was brought from London for the purpose. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Our thralls must be kept well in leash, e’en if that leash be on occasion a hangman’s knot. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z "The hangman take you! if they had even clipped your tongue!" The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Great mighty lady, tell him to dismiss them or give them up to the hangman, for otherwise there will be no peace. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Well, I don't want to look at him," said Zagloba; "may the hangman look at him! With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The prisoner was supported to the steps which led to the scaffold; he looked somewhat wildly around, and a constable was obliged to support him while the hangman was adjusting the fatal cord. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z There is something of the hangman’s knack in this, which is the invariable way of killing rabbits when ferreted or caught alive; and yet it is the most merciful, for death is instantaneous. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The hangman is waiting for you; it cannot be otherwise, O Starosta! The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z This is a sulphurous sort of soldier; give him to the hangman! The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z I won't touch your neck, for that belongs to the hangman. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The hangman works but half the day; he lives too much at ease. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z If he had only told me to relieve me of the fear of the hangman, he should be commended, not reproved. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z As well try to struggle free from the strangling rope of the hangman with hands tied. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Then he succeeds, by a simple trick, in hanging the hangman himself. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z I'll tell you some other time; but where the hangman is my daughter? With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z It does not seem to have fallen into disrepute like that of the headsman or hangman, and perhaps it is as unpleasantly essential as that of the undertaker. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Of all social evils this can least of all be cured by the hangman. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z Leslie Stephen has said that the only argument rascals can understand is the hangman. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z By his fatal assaults upon these two officers of justice, the necessary policeman and the useful hangman, Mr. Punch exhibits his contempt for the majesty of the law. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z May the hangman take that Kisel and all the commissioners and their treaties! With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z His book was presented to the justices, the grand jury of Middlesex, and a copy was ordered to be burned by the common hangman. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Would it not be the lesser crime if I were to save her by dishonourable means, than if I were to stand by with folded arms and see her delivered to the hangman! The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z If this theory be correct, many a poor criminal may escape not only a violent death at the hangman's hands, but also the flames of the material hell to which bigoted moralists have consigned him. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z I want two pieces of scantling strong enough for a hangman's beam. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Better that he should not be, and let the hangman light his way. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z "How long will they allow him to remain there, and befool both bailiff and hangman?" inquired a burgher. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Besides, just now, according to the opinion of the Minister of Justice, the world is to be rid of child-murder by the offices of the hangman! The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z Such a pious bloodhound and hangman----" "Hold thy tongue, Morten," interrupted the steward; "thou must never use such words in speaking of thy master, however well and honestly thou meanst it. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z A hangman's noose swung from each beam's end. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Beneath the blackened feet there strove and pressed A herd of jealous beasts with upward snout, And in the midst of these there turned about One, the chief hangman, larger than the rest.... The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z It is unnecessary, King Erik," replied the prisoner, suppressing his voice, but raising his head and gazing on the king with a dreadful look: "your hangman need not cut me for being tongue-tied. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z His over-wrought imagination pictured how she had perhaps just received the news that she was to fall into the hangman's hands! The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z I surrender; but I'm not going to do your hangman's work. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z The most distressing thing about this Poverty is that she will bring forth and increase, in an altogether unnecessary manner, thereby providing food for the jail, the hangman, and in the end, the devil. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z "I know nothing; what the hangman do you want?" Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z The good women sang your grace and clemency, my king," he continued; "but they lost their voices when they perceived the hangman in your train. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z From the hangman, from the prison, I may not be able to save my child, but perhaps I can save her from despair, from wasting away. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z An oratorical censor that precedes the coming of the hangman. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z "One favour I humbly beg," said bold Robin Hood to the sheriff, "that I may be the hangman when the three yeomen are to die." Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z Officials called the state’s only other hangman, in the city of Lucknow, but he had broken his arm and was not accepting work. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z Of the more active participants in the hanging, Pat Collins, who officiated as hangman, and who flogged Miller, was undeniably a hard citizen. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Why, in the name o’ blazes, air ye more afraid of a cop than you’d be o’ the hangman?” Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z How many Mordecais have in the Universal German Library and in other journals, helped build thy gallows and spin for thy hangman's rope: Meanwhile thou hast happily come down from the gallows only seemingly dead. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z "Now, begin thine office, my jolly hangman," said the sheriff, "for these yeomen no longer must live; and thou shalt have all their good clothing, and all their money besides." Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z For now, India may not need a hangman after all. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z Thanks that, in our day, danger of a hangman’s rope does not threaten one because of his high spiritual illumination. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z That man hasn't one whole feature in his face, and if the hangman's rope had been drawn tight around his neck it couldn't have done very much more damage than my fingers did. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Rousseau wrote in reply to Helvetius, but when the Parliament of Paris condemned the work "De l'Esprit," and it was in consequence burned by the common hangman, Rousseau withdrew his refutatory volume. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z If murderers were permitted to escape the hangman because a Whig viceroy was at Dublin Castle, then assuredly no Tory landlord was safe. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z The pay is not very good for hangmen, partly because of the paucity of hangings but also because the job is considered contract work. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z There are very few who are hung in chains after they are dead: but almost every one is hung, in most accursed chains, before death; and, therefore, in most countries, 'Freeman' means provost-marshal, or hangman. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z To encourage the hangmen, if that were necessary, the press threw them crowns. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z "I feel it all—I cannot breathe—I seem to have the hangman's cord on my throat—his rough grasp on my arm—do not speak of it again." Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z And he smote and trampled them under him; And a long month thence they bare All black their throats with the grip of his hands When the hangman's hand came there. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Still, Mr. Kumar currently works as a hawker, selling clothes from the back of his bicycle, and he welcomed the possibility of a $75 monthly retainer for being a hangman. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z But you say they can repent before they are shuffled off by the hangman, and thus be saved. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Colonel Merlin commanded, thus uniting the three functions of conqueror, judge, and hangman. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z I had been saved from the hangman's noose!!! The Mysterious Sketch 2011-05-03T02:00:14.907Z A map of Scotland placed in a hangman's noose shaped like the SNP's logo. How important is The Sun's SNP support? 2011-04-19T09:31:53Z Mr. Kumar, meanwhile, has been invited for an interview with prison officials later this month to assess his hangman application. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z Far greater than he, the wealthy, the titled, the powerful, had met the fate he anticipated, at hangman’s hands, in the dark and silent recesses of Spanish dungeons. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z The name is derived from that of a celebrated hangman. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z “He tried to get himself mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records, to be recognized as the most prolific hangman in history,” he said. Briton Appeals Sentence Over Book on Singapore's Use of Death Penalty 2011-04-11T13:53:50Z Because if you have not, when you have gratified him by putting me out of the way, he will not lift a finger to keep you out of the hangman's clutches. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Except in one profession: India is searching for a hangman. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z Get out of this and go—hang yourself if you want to cheat the hangman. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z It will be the priest, not the hangman, that will tie Jonathan up.” All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z If we take a philosopher, a hangman and a sailor who appear to be equal as human beings we shall see that in their functions there is nothing in common. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z And then he exclaimed, 'Sancte Gregorie, ora pro me:' while the hangman having sworn a most wicked oath, cried, 'Zounds! his heart is in my hand, and yet Gregory is in his mouth!' Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy 2011-03-25T02:00:12.637Z Prison officials, compelled to act, issued a call for a hangman. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z “Not a heller, not a heller; my father was hangman of Lucerne, and when he died, his body was seized to pay his debts.” The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z In short, it is the province of the hangman to write the history of our island, seeing that this personage has finally determined all our affairs of moment. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Then the king wried away from him, and commanded to send for the hangman, and said, 'They of Calais had caused many of my men to be slain; wherefore these shall die in like wise.' Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I 2011-03-12T03:00:27.327Z Then he desired the hangman to give him warning before he did cast him off the ladder. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z The nation’s handful of known hangmen had either died, retired or disappeared. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z With rather unpleasant vividness, the vision of a hangman and halter arose before him, and he involuntarily loosened his cravat. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Next followed the hangman; and last of all were seen, in the midst of the guards and grandees, about forty persons clad in sackcloth, on which were painted the figures of flames and devils. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z When our sins get the upper hand, and all is going wrong, then the Devil must be God’s hangman, to clear away obstructions and to blast the earth with famines and pestilences. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z "If Jack Windsor had come up a little earlier in the fray we'd have broken the scoundrel's neck, or otherwise saved the hangman a task." A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Ten days after his father’s death, Mr. Kumar applied for government certification as a hangman. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z Before him, in ghastly array, arose the scaffold, the hangman, his dying agonies, and the terrible hereafter. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z I cannot choose but smile to think how the villain will flout the gallows, scorn the audience, and descant on the hangman, and all presuming of his pardon from hence. The Spanish Tragedy 2011-02-21T03:00:10.373Z No, gentlemen of the jury, you may bring the prisoner at the bar, my client, in guilty; the hangman may do his duty, but will that exonerate you? Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Their crude minds did not rise above the thought that the victim should be avenged, and that adequate vengeance could be found only in the hangman's noose or the guillotine. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z However, India is known for its bureaucratic delays, and if the country lacks hangmen, it does not lack rules and protocols governing hanging. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z In fact, it proved altogether impracticable; for the coaita had curled its prehensile tail around his neck in a knot that would have made a hangman envious. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Why, sirrah hangman, I take it that that is good for the body is likewise good for the soul: and it may be in that box is balm for both. The Spanish Tragedy 2011-02-21T03:00:10.373Z Shame! would you take the hangman's business out of his hand? to assassinate a Christian? The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Your hangman is the tenderest fellow in the world," said Cavendish, "till the final moment. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z There now, the jury may be azy in their minds, and the judge, and the hangman, too, if he cares about it. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z "When the bell rang, every child was to be seated quietly, and any child who refused to listen would be 'caught' by the 'hangman', which was the name of the picture on the placard." 'Noose picture' teacher is banned 2011-02-01T19:03:42Z I do see robbers, hangmen, freebooters, grooms, of the present age, more learned than the doctors and preachers of my time. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z I am glad there was no blood shed, these are things we must leave to the hangman. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z To be beaten by the mud-larks or lashed by the hangman—such was the frightful choice which was offered me, such the view of life which I enjoyed for eight years. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z That braced him up—he must avoid the hangman's attention at any cost. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Torturers and hangmen went out with the soldiers. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z "For," said they to the negotiator, "tell your masters we keep our hangman for ourselves and for our children, but not for the people of Kesmarkt!" The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Nay, thou hast served a pretty apprenticeship to the poaching trade, Diccon, that's certain," said Froth, "as the hangman's brand can testify! William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The hangman said that his most memorable hangings were those of the killers of the country's first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Bangladesh hangman series shelved 2010-12-28T16:12:12Z It would save all—the exposure, the torture of the trial, the disgraceful death at the hangman's hand. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z I was as churlish as a hangman cheated of his client. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z I pass my days among the beasts of the forests, and my dreams are of the gallows and the hangman. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z The rope of the hangman was jerked day and night, and the key of the jailer creaked in a thousand locks. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z The hangman started working as an executioner seven years ago and was trained for the job while serving a 30-year murder sentence - passed down when he was aged only 16 - for murder. Bangladesh hangman series shelved 2010-12-28T16:12:12Z While some consider him a brilliant strategist, others describe him as a "media hangman". Glasnost - African style 2010-12-23T17:23:20Z And so Ware's dead—died a worse death than the hangman's; and died not worth a plack, as I always knew he would. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z It is said of him that, in his youth, he served the state as a hangman. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z There are hangmen in plenty on Gallows Hill. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z It was just an offbeat story about the lifestyle of a hangman inside the jail. Bangladesh hangman series shelved 2010-12-28T16:12:12Z “Things were being put on the bathroom walls,” Ms. Hannah added — a racist slur “and a hangman noose.” Gunman in Mass Shooting Had Bumpy Life 2010-08-04T02:40:00Z His great-grandfather, according to letters available with a family, was also a hangman. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z But at every tournament the goalkeeper is the keeper of our final moments of hope, our hangman and electric chair technician. Is it illogical to heap blame on England's hapless goalkeepers? | Barney Ronay 2010-03-27T00:18:00Z You start—but it is true; and, if you do not like the company of a man for whom the hangman once provided a neckerchief, I will drop my story. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 He was released early in August after getting 18 months' time off for working as a hangman. Bangladesh hangman series shelved 2010-12-28T16:12:12Z "I'm as sure's a hangman," said David, nodding significantly, and shutting the door, to proceed to the front of the house, where his presence was in great request. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Qasab, a 22-year-old Pakistani citizen, was given the death sentence recently, and the media is agog with reports that the government is struggling to locate a hangman. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z These words came from the lips of Alvarado, who had himself commanded the body of hangmen, and who now, though his teeth chattered with terror, advanced his rapier towards the bosom of his late companion. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico What right has Theodore Roosevelt to prejudge American citizens, pronounce their guilt and hand them over to the hangman? Labor and Freedom And in England the public hangman warmed his marrow at both literary and religious flames. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The hangman, after having flung a rather short rope round his neck, slipped a thick stick down his nape, and began to twist it round in the manner they press bales of wares. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster "Oh, you just accompany a hangman and watch a few executions, steel yourself, and carry out a few mock hangings," he says. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z But because I knew he meant it not, I said 'twas easy enough, if only he would dismiss the hangman too, to bear me company. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Now do you not fear the threats of the hangman or all the magistrates in the world! Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The hangman was usually some respited prisoner under sentence of death. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The work of the hangman began by strangulation. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster To top it, the hangman has sometimes to face the ire of the convict at the gallows. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z For I did hope to have my joy in thee and to make of thee a man: and now must I buy thee out of the hangman's hand. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim The embroidery which the hangman had left untouched was now torn, and scattered on the road with his hair. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. It was not always easy to get a hangman. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days Towards night the hangman came with his cart, cut the ropes and took the bodies of the seditious men outside the town. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Reports suggest that there are only one or two hangmen available in India - and Mahadeb Mullick could be one of the more qualified. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z Black-capped milkmen, with flaps drawn down over ears, sat upon their wagons, appearing in their garb as if the hangman had rigged them up for a final journey. A Yankee from the West A Novel The robbers slipped into the stove and under the benches, and he who would not have fled before four, was now by the hangman's servant alone dragged out by the hair. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. In 1754 a pamphlet called The Monster of Monsters, a sharp criticism on the Massachusetts Court which caused much stir in provincial political circles, was burned by the hangman in King Street, Boston. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days Moreover, it boded ill, and I could not help foreseeing struggles, animosities, and persecution in this manner of bidding me welcome by a satellite of the hangman after an absence of eight years. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster The powerful leader was quoted in the local press exhorting people to stop lionising the hangman. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z The book was denounced in Parliament as libellous and seditious, and was destroyed by the common hangman. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland The struggle was short; the magistrate with his five, was victorious over the ten; for a real thief, however bold he may be, and willing to confront a whole army, is defenceless against the hangman. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The true book-lover winces at the thought of the blood-stained hands of the hangman on any book, even though a “Monster.” Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The hangman opened the door, while his man went ahead. Marguerite de Valois Not a bit of it; he's no more a jailer than I'm a hangman. Tony Butler It was duly licensed, but was ordered by the House of Commons to be burnt by the common hangman, as being diametrically opposed to the attitude of William’s government on the subject. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Of course Mrs Crewe thinks that it is her wise counsel which has kept me out of the hands of the hangman; but that is not so. The New Gulliver and Other Stories In some shires in England, he had to be hung at last himself, else the power of possessing a hangman lapsed from the town. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days These three were probably the hangman, his wife, and his chief assistant. Marguerite de Valois "I weep," said the hangman, "because since I hanged him, we have discovered that he was guilty of a great crime for which I hanged another man a year ago." The Book of Gud But Tom walked forth apparently as sober as a judge, and as melancholy as a hangman. Ayala's Angel He could almost feel the hangman's noose at his neck. A Traitor's Wooing But so far as the country was concerned, around Futtehghur at least, this merely meant that the hangmen's noose was to be substituted for rifle-bullet and bayonet. Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude Monsieur de Beaulieu entered and at once dispelled the cordial smile of Coconnas by one of those icy looks which belong to governors of fortresses, to jailers, and to hangmen. Marguerite de Valois It's police, and court, and hangman all complete, fire and hail, snow and vapors, wind and storm fulfilling His word. A Man in the Open Because you hate a hangman, you will be Your executioner yourself. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 He must stagger on to the end with the pack of his responsibility and disgrace, until a cold, a blow—a merciful chance blow—or the more merciful hangman should dismiss him from his infamy. The Vagabond in Literature He signed to one of the "comites," whom he was accustomed to call his "chief hangman," and the man blew a long modulated note. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion But this sort of offence to royalty is not punished by judges and hangmen. Marguerite de Valois But her son, who was the gaoler, thought it more than probable that he would cheat the hangman, as he had scarcely tasted food since he had been in prison. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. The head higher," resumed the hangman, "or the springs might catch your skull. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Alas that the hangman’s rope should be own brother to that Indian happiness that keeps alone, were it not for some stray cactus, mother of as many dreams, immemorial impartiality. The Cutting of an Agate Even the utmost efforts of "hangman" were hardly able to put into them a semblance of activity. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion "And you will have masses said for them with this," said Henriette, taking from her neck a magnificent necklace of rubies, and handing it to the hangman. Marguerite de Valois Alas that the hangman’s rope should be own brother to that Indian happiness that keeps alone, were it not for some stray cactus, mother of as many dreams, an immemorial impartiality and simpleness. Discoveries A Volume of Essays "There," muttered the hangman; "these bracelets might have been made for your Excellency; they just fit on over the fur cuffs." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 In 1758 his book De l'Esprit appeared, and made a great sensation, being condemned as immoral, and burnt by the hangman. A Short History of French Literature ‘Doublets that hangmen would bury with these that wore them.’ English Costume Death had not disunited their hands, for either from chance or the kind care of the hangman the right hand of La Mole rested in Coconnas's left hand. Marguerite de Valois Details of mutilation floated in through the foggy air till the flickering night-light showed peeping hangmen in every dim corner. Carnival "Silencio!" growled the hangman, placing him against the wall, and beginning to undress him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 By what means rid himself of the girl, and be safe from the hangman himself. A Modern Wizard Second, to the influence of the hangman, and the scene in which he figures in the production of a degrading and disgraceful estimate of the terrible solemnities of justice, is that of the press. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. This done, the poor hangman began to tremble. Marguerite de Valois Then came the episode of the hangman, and the quavering note of fear in Punch's voice found a responsive echo in her own. Carnival The hangman helped him on with it, threw the short cloak over him, and placed him hastily in the cell which had been so recently vacated. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 A hangman is the most trusty of friends, for, if he once have to do with a man, he will see him hanged before he shall want money or anything else. The Handbook of Conundrums “We will manage to keep possession of him somehow, but—leave the rest to the hangman.” A Veldt Vendetta Monsieur," said Caboche, "you are the only gentleman who ever gave me his hand, and we all have memories and hearts, even though we are hangmen, and perhaps for that very reason. Marguerite de Valois Where is the LAW; where are the constables, the justices, the juries, the judges, the sheriffs, and the hangmen? Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Thin that line's the hangman's rope, savin' your presence. International Short Stories English She asked which of them was going to be the hangman, and said that she must ask them to hang her in public, not secretly. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The hangman would never get him, in that case. A Veldt Vendetta "Thank you, my good friend," said Coconnas, and a third time he extended his hand to the hangman. Marguerite de Valois But when the boia or hangman came to do the job, he found that the man had had his ears cut off smooth long before. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series History will do justice between the hangmen and their peoples. Above the Battle She drifted toward the bank, where one of the hangmen seized her with his hooked pole by her gold-colored hair, plunged her into deep water, and held her beneath its surface until she was drowned. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) So Pilate washed his hands; so the judge might say he never hanged a murderer; the execution was the work of the hangman. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Yes, prepare," shouted Coconnas; "and if you write everything I am going to tell you you infamous hangmen, you will be kept busy. Marguerite de Valois It was only when his eyes bulged out and his tongue protruded, as after the hangman has finished his work, that I realized I was within an ace of taking a human life. The Minute Boys of Boston And the peoples will learn how to deliver themselves from their hangmen. Above the Battle I almost wish I were the hangman myself! Anne What the hangman do you mean by such a row? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance But we won’t cheat the hangman in your case, no fear.” A Frontier Mystery The Witch, however, jeers at the thought and tells the Fiddler that the girl is the child of a hangman’s daughter. Dorothy's Tour All copies of these books were to be brought to the sheriffs of counties, who were to cause the same to be publicly burned by the hands of the common hangman at the next assizes. Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc He also said Radcliffe claimed to have adopted the profession out of purely charitable motives, there having been so many bunglings by amateur hangmen. Seeds of Pine Certainly, no good: for the thief, with his hand upon the watch, only thought of time, the hangman vainly preaching eternity. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Still, I would rather be judge and jury myself and you shall be the hangman, Sam. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago "It is only a hangman's rope," said the French boy, authoritatively. Toilers of the Sea On the 25th of February, 1702-3, the House of Commons ordered De Foe's Shortest Way with the Dissenters to be burned by the hands of the common hangman on the morrow in New Palace Yard. Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc And we do not stand under the Emperor, but under his hangman servants, Exchequer officials, and under the murderous fist of the Moorish and Isaurian troops. Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 So this bit of cruelty was put a stop to, and the poor old creature, with a boil on her back, slept her last sleep unhastened by the hangman. Witch Stories The man condemned shall fit the rope Around the hangman’s neck, and both be free! Songs of the Army of the Night It is bad enough to have one's conscience against one, but when conscience is reinforced by a well-grounded fear of the hangman's rope, then the case grows uncouth indeed. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Written by Charles, Earl of Peterborough, and is very scarce, being burnt by the hangman. Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc |
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