To burn the gibbet!

I am but an old man and feeble, yet, beseech thee, let this be the hand to fire Black Ivo's gibbet!"

Your thousand men would only decorate a thousand gibbets, whether Pertinax should win or lose.

O souls of hanged menO spirits of the dead, come about me, ye ghosts of murdered youth, come and behold the gibbet burn whereon ye died.

I have but two lawyers in Russia, and one of those I mean to hang as soon as I return;" or when at Berlin, having been shown a new gibbet, he ordered one of his servants to be hanged in order to test it; or in his review of parade fights, when he ordered his men to use ball, and to take the buttons off their bayonets.

You will not be surprized at such occurrences when I tell you that G,* whom you must remember to have heard of as a Jacobin at , is President of the Committee above mentionedyes, an assassin is now the protector of the public safety, and the commune of Paris the patron of a criminal who has merited the gibbet.

Pulcinello gives money to the puppet representing the executioner; down goes the gibbet, and Pulcinello is himself again.

tis not yet investedthese be divers of Benedict's spies out of Bourne, to grace thy gibbets.

He will yet ornament the gibbet.

" "And now," said Agostino, "they are putting up a great gibbet in the shape of a cross in the public square, where they will hang the three holiest and best men of Florence!"

Ah! may God grant me life, and may Jesus pardon me, I will raise a gibbet a hundred yards high, I will take hammer and nails, and I will crucify this Beauharnais called Bonaparte, between this Leroy called Saint-Arnoud, and this Fialin called Persigny!

This head-dress did in fact owe its name to its summit, which resembled a gibbet.

Dennis was cheerful enough when he "turned off" others, but when he himself ascended the gibbet he showed a most grovelling and craven spirit.

He was at last forced from his retreat, condemned, and executed, amidst the regrets of the populace, who were so devoted to his memory, that they stole his gibbet, paid the same veneration to it as to the cross, and were equally zealous in propagating and attesting reports of the miracles wrought by it

Is this wine less red and royal That the hangman waits for me? He upon your cross that hangeth, It is writ of priestly pen, On the night they built his gibbet, Drank red wine among his men.

Several of the rioters (if they should not rather be described as conspirators) endeavoured to remove the stone which filled up the socket in which the end of the fatal tree was sunk when it was erected for its fatal purpose; others sought for the means of constructing a temporary gibbet, the place in which the gallows itself was deposited being reported too secure to be forced, without much loss of time.

The cruel wretch her husband was shot by the pursuers; too good a death for one who deserved the gibbet; and the lady was universally lamented by all tender and religious people.

At another time the curtain is drawn up and discovers a gibbet and Pulcinello standing on a ladder affixed to it with a rope round his neck.

among whom, I could appeal to a hundred papers of universal approbation by the cause they were writ for, which lay such principles to the whole body of the Tories, as, if they were true, and believed; our next business should in prudence be, to erect gibbets in every parish, and hang them out of the way.