gallows
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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
For local establishments, the newly offered specials are part gallows humor, part business gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
"There's a gallows humour about the party, a 'well it can't get any worse, can it?' strange jovialness which is kind of bonding," says one Tory MP.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
He sawed off a good chunk from a carcass hanging on the gallows, causing the swarm of black flies to circle once, then land again.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
"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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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 Eggleston, Edward
I mean, merely, that gallowses are fast disappearing, and that the people--le peuple you will understand--begin to accept money.
From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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