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Sentence Examples His task completed, the man was taken back to the gallows and again the noose was placed around his neck. It is you and the like of you that deprave and demoralize youth and prepare criminals for the gallows. His trial ended in conviction, and he was sentenced to hang, but Boyington heatedly maintained his innocence to the very gallows. Rudge is hanged, Barnaby is reprieved from the gallows at the last moment, and Chester is killed by Haredale in a duel. It's distanced, almost clinical and that in turn leads to a great deal of gallows humour. Towards the end of his career he became increasingly convinced that many of the protestations of innocence made at the gallows were genuine. On their way they would pass a fearsome array of gallows trees and instruments of torture. At the time, the only other methods in use in this country were the gas chamber, firing squad and gallows. In the centre of the patch of common land there were a stocks, a gallows and a tall gaily coloured pole from which dangled multicoloured strands. The gallows were ready, having been carefully inspected, constructed, and tested overnight. One Sunday night, while all the villagers slept, workers began constructing a gallows that was forty feet high. The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope. The gallows are situated behind a tiled building, which is now being demolished. After that, the SS officers set up gallows and had hangings during each roll call. They stood by a gallows holding ropes which were strung over a pulley to become a noose holding up a body. There are concerns scaffolding could be used to construct gallows from which protesters would be suspended on motorways to halt traffic. Ultimately he was tried, convicted and swung from a gallows, the last person hanged in Alberta. Several towns had gallows trees for the victims including Croscombe in Devon. I mean to say that he doesn't have the cavalier attitude and penchant for gallows humour that a lot of his colleagues do. How about Deacon Brodie's, a pub that honours a man who was hanged on a gallows of his own design? Show More Sentences Scores of gallows were erected in the city and public hangings became common place. The diminutive professor looks pensive, and tries to extenuate his anguish with a shot at dark, gallows humour. I know it's not really funny, but we did find a sort of gallows humour in the situation. Does she remember that you once went back to 1795 to save her from the gallows? His strongest collection of poems, Crow, speaks of death in the abstract with a combination of horror, fascination and gallows humour. Fourteen were killed, but subsequent trials led to transportation to Tasmania, not the gallows. Appeals to save such brave but desperate men from the gallows occasionally struck a chord with the wealthy and patriotic. But even if he saves her from the gallows she will still have a lengthy prison term before her. It was thought that mandrakes sprang up beneath gallows, with the root taking on the shape of the person who'd been hanged. The good thing about gallows humour is no matter how bad things get you can always find some wag ready to crack a joke. He staked everything on his ability to convince a judge to sentence the pair to life imprisonment and save them from the gallows. Amnesty says the death penalty is not a deterrent to the drug trade as runners, rather than the kingpins, are most at risk of facing the gallows. If a woman miscarried, went into labor early, or had trouble hiring a midwife, she could be sent to the gallows. In 1975 the British government ruled that only certain types of crime were punishable by the gallows. The young man once saved an Aboriginal fairground attendant from the gallows. When it plays the good guy and saves people from the gallows it is seen as colonial. Thus, they could avoid fines, whippings, imprisonment, or worse, the gallows! He was never likely to denounce the Downing Street snake-pit and order its inmates to the gallows. A convent was founded close by the site of the old gallows, and a small group of snooker-playing nuns still pray for the souls of the dead. This togetherness is useful, as the prison is considering building a nine-passenger gallows. Show More Sentences His arms were crossed mutinously over his chest and he reminded her of an executioner, preparing to send her to the gallows. Those whose work constantly expose them to the unrelieved grimness of human suffering and death take refuge in gallows humor. Then the apparatus of power comprised stocks, ducking stools, branding irons and the omnipresent shadow of the gallows. Uncertain of the outcome, Selma sings and dances her via dolorosa to the gallows accompanied by the guard. On Wednesday, he displayed the full range of his emotional repertoire, complete with gallows humour, as the schizophrenic tale of two Cities unfolded at White Hart Lane. Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family. A hundred years ago, during the Tsarist Russian occupation, kibitkas, or horse wagons, were leaving the Citadel's gallows filled with Polish political prisoners. Whichever of the groups was in power would be marching the other to the gallows. But when the people we put in power strung him up on the gallows his last words proved almost true. The last tally of children on death row, in 2011, estimated at least 143 child offenders were awaiting the gallows in Iran. Languishing in a prison cell in southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, 21-year-old Razie Ebrahimi awaits her date with the gallows. The gallows had almost been completed when her reprieve came through. Needless to say, the gallows humor that is a hallmark of my former profession has lost much of its luster. The bodies and subsequent months-long investigation have inspired a sort of gallows humor amongst the locals. The boundaries of acceptable comedy have once again asserted themselves, limning the limits of gallows humor. Indeed, in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, the case has been a source of particular fascination and gallows humor. Sukari, the hit man, who was also sentenced to the gallows, simply stared at pages of the Quran. The nation had never executed a woman, and until Surratt heads to the gallows, Aiken thought he could save her. Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing. Sentenced to hang for piracy, William Fly spoke from the gallows to a large crowd, telling captains to pay sailors their wages or take as a warning his murder of a captain. Show More Sentences Father Dixon found it remarkable that such a statement could be a credible account of Stuart's words, and began moving heaven and earth to save him from the gallows. Stuart talks freely and very colourfully about facing the gallows, his life in jail and the fortunate turn of events that enabled him to transform his life. The trip from the condemned cell to the gallows was very short and there was no speech to which the condemned man had to listen whilst standing on the trap. A gallows is a structure used customarily to hang criminals. They have applied to Highland Council to build a 50 ft high gallows at the site in Ballachulish where James of the Glen was executed in 1752 for a murder he did not commit. He found it remarkable that such a statement could be a credible account of his words, and began moving heaven and earth to save him from the gallows. Acquitting a woman on ground of insanity may have saved her from the gallows, or a lengthy prison term, but it also stripped her crime of meaning. Most of us are indulging in the usual gallows humour we use to get us through the general round of threats and attempted assaults that are our daily lot. Once placed on the drop of the gallows Baird addressed the silent crowd. Each track was introduced by his usual gallows humour, setting the tone for beautifully melancholic pieces, such as For Joe and Buckstacy. The slasher-pic 80s is revived with gallows humour as resonant as deputy Dewey's dopey ringtone. Once inside, get ready for a little gallows humor and a chance to have your picture taken standing behind the bars of one of the old jail cells. Mohammad was sent to the gallows for uxoricide under the criminal law and in light of the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women. The suspense and the gallows humour that had become Hitchcock's trademark in his films continued to appear in his American productions. His works such as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. Keyes did not wait for the hangman's command and jumped from the gallows, but he survived the drop and was led to the quartering block. To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. He successfully illustrates the bond that exists amongst these men, which is a fertile ground for gallows humour. The gallows humour set against the reality of life in the trenches showed exactly why the men needed to find something to laugh about. The document is written in the usual council jargon but one section makes for gallows humour reading. Show More Sentences Does Postman Pat know something I don't, or is this a touch of gallows humour from this rather slow, strikebound industry? The response to that question was met with a touch of gallows humor among the staff of The Smiley Group Inc. The gallows were an icon of the 17th and 18th century and could be readily found throughout the Atlantic world. For a pirate however the odds of finding yourself on the gallows were much higher. Miracles were reported around the late Earl of Lancaster's tomb, and at the gallows used to execute members of the opposition in Bristol. Laurence of Oxford went the way of all flesh on the gallows. Funerals crop up quite a bit in Liz's rather melancholy output, and although she is inspired by the maudlin, she serves her songs with a big smattering of gallows humour. Newspapers reported details such as condemned men's last words, the prayers said by the priests, and descriptions of their final moments in the gallows. When his father saw him he fumed terribly, cursing like a pagan, and asking whether his son were a roysterer fit for the gallows as well as a fool fit for a cassock. Antonio Pigafetta's and other reports state that Luis de Mendoza and Gaspar Quesada, captain of Concepcion were executed and the remains hung on gallows on the shore. Although weakened by his torture, Fawkes managed to jump from the gallows and break his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the gruesome latter part of his execution. He climbed a ladder to the gallows and spoke to his executioner. Examples from Classical Literature Valentine, in fact, was seized by that desperate merriment which is known as gallows humor. Too awful it is for an aged man to bide and bear, that his bairn so young rides on the gallows. Right back o' where de courthouse now stands wuz a jail and a gallows an' a whuppin' pos' all dere together. I should have to clear myself of felony, to strain every nerve and cheat the gallows. He had no other place than near the gallows, where he had so often buried the hanged and the accurst. Now that they had caught him they could condemn him to be hanged on the spot, and away they hurried him to the gallows tree. It was a little figure bound hand and foot and hanging from the gallows tree. Like the McPherson who danced so wantonly and rantingly beneath the gallows tree, she remained brave-hearted to the end. The town looks on him as a cut-throat who has narrowly escaped the gallows. The street frightened her, since it led either to the gallows or to the river. Not merely the cannons and rifles, but even the guillotine and the gallows were at rest. It was his fate to escape the gallows in England and the guillotine in France. He defies the stick, and he would defy the gallows if it were far enough off. His long career of crime closed on his seventy-fourth birthday, in 1759, at the gallows, Nottingham. His hair hung in straight gallows locks about his ears, and added not a little to his sharking demeanor. At the foot of the gallows sat Sheena moaning, and swaying herself to her musical and rhythmic keening. In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it. They had the right to erect gallows, pillory and tumbrel for the punishment of malefactors. No one could get edification from an artistic 451representation of a man hanging on the gallows. For building walls of some height a gallows frame arrangement or the common braced staging used by masons and carpenters is used. Show More Sentences And the soldier came to stiff attention as the Sheriff and his body-guard stalked pompously up to inspect the gallows. Hurry on the accursed witches to the gallows, ere they do more mischief! So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows. Derrick was outdone in the 1670s by Jack Ketch whose triple tree gallows could simultaneously dispatch a full two dozen. The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows. It might be,too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows. I'm foreswore not to feel lonesome tell I go to the gallows. Yet, who would by his evidence send a brother to the gallows? The fear of death paralysed her efforts to escape the gallows. There's Stacy, a gallows bird that will not tempt the light! Three sledges waited for us in the yard to draw us to the gallows tree. It bears a grimly significant resemblance to a gallows tree. They gazed raptly upon the gallows tree where pirates used to dangle. Thy body, I sweare by the holye rood, Shall hang on the gallows tree. Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. On a tiny hillock was a small gallows with grapevine attachment. Ten days later Gullah Jack suffered death on the gallows also. The voice of theosophy has been heard in favor of downing the gallows. If gossip, then, be a gallows 39matter, let Bell unbutton him for the end. A man was arrested for having caused his death, and held in custody till a gallows was erected. Show More Sentences The signboard was dark and indecipherable by now, and hung black against the sky and the gray moorland beyond, about as inviting as a gallows. But it was no tree he leant against, but a gallows on which two ravens were seated. Now if we remain here we shall die of hunger, and if we move out we shall be strung up on the gallows. Presently he came to the market-place, and beheld thereon three gallows erected. A cynical, gallows humour grumbler maybe, and a vocal critic when need be, but not a boo boy. There is a dark absurd humor in these poems and images that suggest what lies on the other side of the gallows, the hanging tree. Like a body cut from the gallows the Chinaman plumped into the black hole below, carrying his tail in his teeth. The matter was so prearranged that it is my belief that they brought with them some sort of block or pulley which might serve as a gallows. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? He served the monarchy by imprisoning, exiling, or sending to the gallows men and women, young and old, with an equable, unwearied industry. But I'll own up fairly, I've the shakes upon me for the gallows. The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to calculate successfully. Find more words! 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