18 Metaphors for hangs

Shortly afterwards he turned round to the same man and said, "I was wrong in what I said just now; I am still of my former opinion: hanging is the best of the two;" and he remained in the same mind all the night.

" Interviewer's Comment Hanging on the wall was the old man's diploma from the Mississippi State Normal School for colored persons.

"But in the sentence, 'She hangs the curtains,' hangs is an active-transitive verb.

There are plenty of men, no doubt, who are shocked beyond anything at the idea of hanging a woman; but those same men will think nothing of going straight home and making life for some other woman so absolutely miserable that she'd think hanging would be a lucky escape from something worse.

In January, 1662, they were hung on "Gallows Hill," on the bluff a little north of where Trinity College now stands"a logical location" one most learned in the traditions and history of Hartford calls itas it afforded an excellent view of the execution to a large crowd on the meadows to the west, a hanging being then a popular spectacle and entertainment.

For several centuries, and down to the Revolution, hanging was the most common mode of execution in France; consequently, in every town, and almost in every village, there was a permanent gibbet, which, owing to the custom of leaving the bodies to hang till they crumbled into dust, was very rarely without having some corpses or skeletons attached to it.

Rud. Hang am Tytts!

Hanging at its side was a big piece of raw beef.

We extracted the charioteers from a neighbouring hut, and gave them to understand, by means of Sabz Ali, that hanging was the least annoyance they would suffer if they didn't get under way "ek dam" at once.

"Aye, aye, sirthe punishments, I grant, your honor; but hanging is an execution, and not a punishment.

Hanging is a punishment that seldom, if ever, takes place.

We extracted the charioteers from a neighbouring hut, and gave them to understand, by means of Sabz Ali, that hanging was the least annoyance they would suffer if they didn't get under way "ek dam" at once.

Hanging is always a dreadful death, but in the Far North it carries an extra stigma of ignominy with it, inasmuch as it is resorted to only with the basest malefactors.

Hung beside them on the walls are little pictures, often very well executed in the miniature-like Hindoo style by native artists in the island.

From all this, if there is any force in logic, we must conclude, that hanging, in this country, is only applied honoris causâ, as an ovation, in consideration of the great and magnanimous daring of the Alexanders and Caesars on a small scale, to whom the law adjudges the "palmam qui meruit ferat."

The hanging back of the second sledge was mainly a question of condition, but to some extent due to the sledge.

Hanging on trees round these habitations, were specimens of an article of clothing, never before seen among the Aborigines of Australia, for which reason I have been induced to give the woodcut of one.

Hung between the rods, being suspended by piano wires as in a spider-web, was the motor, basket, and propeller-shaft.

18 Metaphors for  hangs