gallows

Several officers told investigators that they used gallows humor as a way to deal with the stress of working long hours in a small, windowless basement office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The offended parties can also choose to turn the other cheek, though all eyes seem fixed on the gallows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026

Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025

Richard Rumbold, a Puritan soldier convicted of treason in 1685, who spoke the words from the gallows.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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 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 James Fenimore Cooper

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

She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"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