To the French portion of the inhabitants it is known as Côte à Coton, whilst the English portion still continue to surround it, unopportunely we think, with the unhallowed traditions of a lugubrious past and call it Gallows Hill.
Then your blowing will wax gallows haughty, When she hears of your scaly mistake She'll surely turn snitch for the forty-- That her Jack may be regular weight.
Or break into a gentleman's house, To the magistrate we go; Then to gaol to be shackled, Whence to be hanged on the gallows in the morning, The pox and the devil take the constable and his stocks.
On the high toby splice flash the muzzle In spite of each gallows old scout; If you at the spellken can't hustle You'll be hobbled in making a clout.
She does not know of your escape from the gallows nor the method thereof, and because of this latter fact you and I both had better beware.
The penalty was assessed at death on the gallows and sentence was duly passed that John Wysong, thirty days from that date, be hanged by the neck until dead.
A clearing had been kept open so that the jailer and his ward might go through to the gallows uninterrupted.
Christian walked in the direction of the gallows hesitatingly.
It was on a very marshy piece of ground, water everywhere abounding; the only land above the water dry was deputed and ordained to be the gallows of thieves, and to the torment of others that were condemned by judicial authority.
It is planted with potatoes, but the plough spares the spot on which was once his gallows and his grave.
At the foot of the eminence where the gallows had been erected, we found an old Dutch farm-house, occupied by a man who witnessed the execution, and whose father often sold peaches to the unhappy prisoner.
In allusion to the old site of the gallows in the Grassmarket.
The right to have a =gallows= was one eagerly sought for, and held very firmly; not because people particularly wanted to hang one another, but because the gallows represented to them the highest power of government.
The right of a gallows was a sign of right to govern, and so it was much valued, especially by the trading towns.
For very little I would lead you to thegallows for your wicked deed.
The Act for private executions led to the erection of the gallows shed in the exercising yard, and at the flank of the passage from the condemned cells.
In thus describing the saturnalia before the gallows I have been drawn on somewhat beyond the period with which I am at present dealing.
On the morning of execution the noise of fixing the gallows in the street outside awoke one or two of them.
As he appeared on the gallows the mob groaned and hissed the Government, and Cashman joined in the outcry until the drop fell.
This feeling was the stronger because all the ghastly paraphernalia, the gallows itself and the process of erecting and removing it, rested with the city architect, and not with the prison officials.
This went on for more than an hour, and until the malefactors were cut down and the gallows removed; then the mob began to thin, and the streets were cleared by the city marshals and a number of constables.
In the few years which elapsed between the establishment of the gallows at Newgate and the abolition of the practice of burning females for petty treason, more than one woman suffered this penalty at the Old Bailey.
Mr. Whitfield Preaching on Kennington Common] Silas accompanied the condemned men to Tyburn, and saw the gallowsfor the first time.
A clause was inserted to the effect that "the bodies of all prisoners convicted of murder should either be hung in chains, or buried under the gallows on which they had been executed, .
Other cases might be quoted, especially that of William Snow, alias Sketch, who slipped from the gallows at Exeter and fell to the ground.
Below he met another woman and a girl, both of whom were terrified at his appearance, but when he explained that he was running away from the gallows they left him the road clear.
Newgate about eight in the morning, and suspended on a gallows of a new construction.
To die game; to suffer at the gallows without shewing any signs of fear or repentance.
The sheriff's picture frame; the gallowsor pillory.
One who deserves and has narrowly escaped the gallows, a slip-gibbet, one for whom the gallows is said to groan.
I was parted from my poor little wife, doubtless for ever; and if I did not come to the gallows for murder or stealing sheep, I must perforce end my days in a debtor's prison.
We have robbed the gallows of eight good necks and true, which is, I think, a pretty liberal evening's work.
You achieved fame, but whether it will avail you much when you stand on the gallows is for you to say.
Thus we have seen that the man sent for as a prisoner, with a gallows staring him in the face, left Concord a victor.
This letter which Miss Morton refused to produce was possibly a confession of guilt, and she might find herself in the terrible position of only being able to save her brother from the gallows by the sacrifice of her former lover.
Gaol and the gallows wait for violence and murder, and there's no slipping out by the back door on board an ocean liner.
The chips of a gallows on which several had been hanged, when worn in a bag round the neck would cure the ague.
A dead man's hand could dissipate tumours of the glands, by stroking the part nine times; but the hand of a man who had been cut down from the gallows was the most efficacious.
That same Day, Hew, there was set up a Gallows at every Gate in London, and at the Bridge-foot; three or four at Charing Cross and in many other Places.
Others, returning from their meal, called to him that if he disliked waiting he could hang himself, because there was a vacant hook on the gallows with a ready rope.
The walls were again deserted by all but the guard; the rooks and crows departed from the gallows to the forests.
