The second man had been horrified at the murder, and desired to disassociate himself from it so that he might escape the gallows.

He looked like one that had cheated the gallows.

Then, with his gaze yet upon the gallows, Beltane sighed and answered: "There hath been no rain for weeks, look you: the underbrush is dry, methinks, and should burn well!" "Aye, for sure," said Roger, "we shall burn Black Ivo's gallows to ashes, bowman, and a good end 'twill be.

In this room the lumber trust attorneys attempted to build a gallows of perjured testimony on which to break the necks of innocent men.]

In the colonization of the West Indies, "when a city was to be founded, the first form prescribed was, with all solemnity, to erect a gallows, as the first thing needful; and in laying out the ground, a site was marked for the prison as well as for the church.

He knew he deserved the gallows, and Joyce was a man who would execute him in an instant, did his commander order it.

Two men were seated in easy attitudes on the grass by the churchtwo men of the class of itinerant showmen, exhibitors of the freaks of Punchand they had come there to make needful repairs in the stage arrangements, for one was engaged in binding together a small gallows with thread, while the other was fixing a new black wig upon the head of a puppet.

So saying, Beltane turned and keeping ever within the shadow of the trees, set off towards that distant hill where stood the gallows, black against the moon.

We see him as a magistrate, 'no friend to game,' as a country squire in Suffolk solemnly said of a neighbour, but a friend to man; with a pitying heart, that forbade him to commit young delinquents to gaol, though he would lecture them severely, and call out, in bad cases, 'John, bring me out my private gallows,' which brought the poor boys on their knees.

One was James Drummond, a cousin of my own mother's, and he got the gallows for his trouble.

" "Indeed, my lord he might grace the gallows as well as you or I." "The rogue telleth me that you will hang men no more.

Some one has found, or invented, a story of a shipwrecked traveller's hailing the gallows as the sure token of a civilized community.

So high a gallows as that, the Judge had never, even in his most hilarious moments, dreamed of.

"Everybody in that court already saw Smethurst mounting the gallows.

Was it not strange that anyone should have risked the gallows for the sake of putting out of the way a man who of a surety was not worth powder or shot?

Then a shout arose which bade fair to lift the roof off, and neither judge nor ushers of the court made any attempt to quiet it, and if it was only for the sensation of seeing the gallows march nearer the prisoner that these folk had come together, yet there was no mistaking the genuineness of their congratulations now.

And when he had set up his great gallows and hanged it full with our men, he vowed that, should Belsaye anger him again, he would burn the city and all within it and, O my lord, my lordI have yet a daughterAh, good my lord, leave us not to ravishment and death!" "Aye, go not from us, my lord!" cried the others.

The place was crowded with people of all descriptions, and a strong guard of soldiers, three deep, surrounded the gallows, forming a circle, the area of which was about two hundred feet in diameter.

He would sooner accept the gallows than a mean trade, or anything that might disparage the height of man in him, and yet thinks no death comparably base to hanging neither.

Then came Beltane with Walkyn close behind, and peering over the friar's broad shoulders, they beheld a sentinel who stood with his back to them, leaning on his spear, to watch the burning gallows, his chain-mail agleam and his head-piece glittering as he stirred lazily in time to the merry lilt he sang softly.

You may adorn a gallows yet.

I knew well enough that, unless it could be proved that both were implicated in the murder, or if it should be left uncertain which was the man who actually committed it, or that they both went to the place with the joint intention of perpetrating it if necessary for their object, they might both avoid the gallows.

However great thy crimes, thou cheatest the gallows.

At last I started up, and trembling like a man climbing the gallows, I climbed into the wagon.

It gives a priestly character to the captain of a slave-ship,to him that is willing to break the laws of his country, even daring the gallows, for the benefit of the sable brother, and of his law-abiding conservative society.