gibbet

Generations of school children across Halifax are taught the history of its gibbet but a few years ago it fell over due to rot.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2014

"It fell down, I was nearby and I felt it was important," said Mr Haddock, whose offices sit opposite the gibbet site.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2014

Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rig looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Although the practice is fading, mole-catchers employ such gibbets to prove that the promised work is completed, and farmers use them to niggle their neighbours into clearing their own fields.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017

In Victorian times, the heyday of butterfly collecting, gamekeepers would attract Purple Emperors down to their gibbets by hanging out rotting carcasses of crows and rabbits.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2015

The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

"Port Light" at Wappin' Wharf 42 Patch: Wappin' wharf and gibbets is nothin' ter talk about.

From Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Julia McCune Flory

We have put her away in an old chest with hoops and tie-wigs and gibbets and pirates and Newgate ordinaries and rotten boroughs and watchet ribbands.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

Two hundred years thy name has been pilloried in face of the world, and thy memory gibbeted before mankind.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

They gibbeted their own infamy in vainly seeking to dishonor the illustrious dead.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

"Try to be like somebody," said the unlucky critic-bookseller to Lamartine; and he has been gibbeted for it, very justly, for the best part of a century.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

It is a great penalty to pay for greatness to be gibbeted in this fashion.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

Those who have gibbeted themselves on the walls have also thrown the newspapers that held their lunch into the water, and bottles with the paper—a most unhappy spectacle.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

With bubbling yells it came, trampling the undergrowth, drumming on its huge breast, gibbeting with demoniac rage and pain--came swiftly, like the terrific things that people nightmares.

From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain.

From Romola by George Eliot

The Times newspaper did good service in gibbeting this precious morceau, supplied by its indefatigable reporter, in its broad sheet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

This Act made matters clear, and was the means of gibbeting rapidly increasing in this country.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Two pleas only can justify disinterring and gibbeting an author's private life—either his having done the same by others, or his having made the public the confidant of his individual experience.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various