| Once assembled on the drop, the hangman, probably Edward Dennis, put the nooses round their necks while they prayed with the Ordinary. |
| By adjusting the rate of withdrawal, rinsing, and drying, they could make the molecules bend back onto themselves like needle eyes, nooses, or even nest-like coils. |
| Their heads, which protrude from above the nooses, loll lifelessly, their curved beaks ajar. |
| One of the nooses dropped to my ankles and was jerked up with a suddenness that brought me to my face upon the ground. |
| Five of them tossed nooses in through the bars upon the floor of his cage. |
| A little while ago I set a springe and two horse-hair nooses in the reed bed for water rails. |
