The prospect of that walk through the early morning dews to the execution-ground made their shoulders droop along with their spirits.

Come, to his sisters execution goe, We have varietie of joyes in woe.

"How true it is that persons being led to execution interest themselves in anything that strikes them on the way!"

When a criminal was justly executed, was not the execution justice to him who suffered, and humanity to the body of the people at large?

You tyrants, would you drag me In fetters to my execution-place? Go!

The historical circumstance which Scott represents in his masterly way in The Heart of Midlothian, chap, ii., is of a precisely similar kind; where, of two delinquents condemned to death, the one who by his awkwardness caused the capture of the other happily sets him free in the chapel by overpowering the guard after the execution-sermon, without at the same time making any attempt on his own behalf.

Nothing seemed to have been neglected which could render the execution solemn and impressive; the scenery and the weather gave additional awe to the melancholy proceedings.

Two of his ribs had been broken, and one of his lungs seriously injured, and ten days before the date fixed for his execution death set him free.

We will take this smuggling gang, And those that fight shall hang Dingle dangle from the execution tree, Says the Gauger: Dingle dangle with the weary moon to see.