10 examples of gallows-tree in sentences
Kipling's dun "with the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell and the head of the gallows-tree," could hardly have shown more spirit.
And I did see Thy honesty, From gallow-tree When thou didst free Scathlock and Scarlet certainly[210].
and forsooth ye come, To have some succour here, because you sav'd My unthrift husband from the gallow-tree.
Let Prodigality go to the gallows-tree!
Now, Donahoo was taken, all for a notorious crime, And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows-tree so high.
At length him nayled on a gallow-tree, And slew the iust by most uniust decree.
He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent the knee; And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace Beneath the gallows-tree.
"Oh, that I could take her up tenderly, tell her that all is forgiven and forgotten by man and God!serve her as I have never served her yet! nurse her to sleep on my bosom, and then go forth and bear her punishment, even if need be on the gallows-tree!"
Have they burned the stocks for oven-wood? Have they cut down the gallows-tree? "Would the old folk know their children?
An influence that has already earned you three city houses, five estates, and a carriage-and-four. Have a care that the Crown Prince does not auction off all these objects under the gallows-tree some fine day.