tumbril
Example Sentences
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As a vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril.
From Time Magazine Archive
The subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures.
From Time Magazine Archive
First to hit the tumbril was Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, 40, the pudgy, sneering, widely resented husband of Nikita's daughter Rada.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the creak of the tumbril was heard again last spring in Europe, it was almost inevitable that a biography of Robespierre would not be far behind.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second tumbril sat two women—one, Marie Topinambour, a poor dancer, was weeping; the other, Julie de Poopinac, was playing at cat's cradles.
From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Lorn Loraine
