Do you seek to add your testimony to the sweet savour which now ascends from moors, mosses, peat-bogs, closes, kennels, prisons, dungeons, ay, and scaffolds in this distressed land of Scotland?

In the summer of the next year it was found in his possession, its history was ascertained, and he was sent to the scaffold for the sole offense of having and valuing a relic of his murdered sovereign.

Then the royal pontiff arose from the brazen scaffold on which he had seated himself, and amid clouds of incense and the smoke of burning sacrifice offered unto God the tribute of national praise, and implored His divine protection.

The poor, unoffending Protestants filled the prisons, and dyed the scaffolds with their blood.

And while the others fled from the power of Unk-a-tahe, the father and mother clung to the scaffold of their daughter.

In accordance with this decision, the moment the head of the royal victim fell[a] on the scaffold at Whitehall, a proclamation was read in Cheapside, declaring it treason to give to any person the title of king without the authority of parliament; and at the same time was published the vote of the 4th of January, that the supreme authority in the nation resided in the representatives of the people.

They brought Louis to the scaffold by the unanimity of their votes.

The assassins of Henry the Fourth had all the benefit of the laws, and suffered only after a legal condemnation; yet the unfortunate Cecilia Renaud, though evidently in a state of mental derangement, was hurried to the scaffold without a hearing, for the vague utterance of a truth, to which every heart in France, not lost to humanity, must assent.

But if your companion sees a scaffold around a chimney, he must perch on it.

The American Indians are by no means the only savages employing scaffolds as places of deposit for the dead, for Wood gives a number of examples of this mode of burial.

Then, when the lad obeyed, it was easy enough, with a blow of a hammer, to knock the scaffold from its fastenings.

Does he fail to see that there are many who would act like them if only they could? Many a criminal dies more quietly on the scaffold than many a non-criminal in the arms of his family.

I did, & could as quyetlye endure To be exposd uppon the publique scaffold To all myne enemyes contempt, but nowe I'me more then banysht, all my honors lost, My wealthe, my places everye one the kyngs; I hardlye am a pryvate gentyllman.

The Pope allowed him to take down Bramante's machinery, and to raise a scaffold after his own design.

"I must run a good strong bamboo scaffold along the inside wall, with plenty of sand-bags ready for loopholingspecially atop the servants' quarters and pony-shed, and in that northeast angle, where we'll throw up a mound or platform.

The execution took place not on Tower Hill, as usual with persons of high rank, but in Lincoln's Inn Fields, in order that the citizens of London might be humbled and terrified by the sight, as he was carried in a coach to the scaffold through the City.

" "Your body shall lie on the scaffold near your native village," his wife replied.

Or to the dynasty of Sardinia and Piedmont? This professes to be constitutional; yet it captures those poor Hungarian soldiers who seek an asylum in Piedmont,captures, and delivers them to Austria to be shot: and they are shot, increasing the number of those 3742 martyrs whom Radetzky murdered on the scaffold during three short years.

" On Jan. 21 of this year, the unfortunate King had met his death on the scaffold before an immense throng of people.