gibbet

Example Sentences

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"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

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

He trotted up to the gibbet, stopped, worked his mule under the goose, and grabbed.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked “upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry