gallows
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Webb creates an implacable sense of doom that continually builds toward the last scene, with a deadly cadence and a final staircase suggesting the gallows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The series is wildly atmospheric with plenty of gallows humor and more than a few truly loopy plotlines, but great fun with Davis managing, as ever, to sell even the most preposterous scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026
Their side had not long come from behind to go 2-1 up against Newcastle United when gallows humour swept across the London Stadium.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
He is the all-father, the lord of the slain, the gallows god.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
The cross-pieces on the small bitts at the main and fore hatchways in flush-decked vessels, for stowing away the booms and spars over the boats; also termed gallowses, gallows-tops, gallows-bitts, and gallows-stanchions.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Tildy and Johnny were married, and Johnny's gallowses never creaked any more.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various
The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses."
From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Edward Eggleston
"I wear gallowses no more," he explained, lifting his waistcoat to show that his braces now encircled him as a belt, but even then she did not understand.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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