Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tumbril? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
While terrified soldiers sought refuge inside the ministry, a tumbril was found.
It finishes, discreetly, as she is forced to leave Versailles, long before we hear the faintest rumble of a tumbril.
Last time I fell in a shower-room I bled like a tumbril dandy and the hotel longed to be rid of me.
The ministerial Jaguar parked outside had become a tumbril.
David was an active proponent of the French Revolution who voted to execute Marie Antoinette then drew her, with what looks like compassion, in the tumbril.
Examples from Classical Literature
It has been told, by every writer, that she could look over at her girlhood home, as her tumbril crossed Pont au Change.
Up the Canongate comes the rumbling of a tumbril, like the French Revolution.
Then she was put into the tumbril, and was started on her way to the scaffold.
He saw Jeanne, and only Jeanne, standing on the tumbril and being led to the guillotine.
There ensued a period when only a shrill keening marked the passing of Roderick as he was borne to the tumbril.
The bodies of the victims were placed in a tumbril lighted by torches.
It depicts two men lifting a corpse into a tumbril while a third begins to lift a corpse from the ground.
He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him.
The tumbril and the guillotine would not have made her weep.
The DS was scheduled for the chop the next year so it was natural that the poor SM was a tumbril ride from the guillotine.
At half-past eleven, Maria Antoinette was placed in a tumbril, or dung cart, with her back towards the horses, a mode of conveyance considered as peculiarly infamous.
