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.
It was the fault of one man: Pownall has gibbeted the rascal; Epsom fell through the "knavery of Mr. John Livingstone, an apothecary.
The pink-cheeked young patrolman, swinging back on his beat, tattooed with his ash night-stick on the gas-pipe frame and peered indifferently down at the battered and gibbeted crockery.
Huge as his figure must once have been, it now seemed, like his gibbeted plates, all battered and chipped and over-written with the marks of time.
Robert and William Bolas were gibbetedon Uckington Heath, near Shrewsbury, in 1723.
A Salford woolcomber named John Grinrod (or Grinret), poisoned his wife and two children in September, 1758, and in the following March was hanged and gibbeted for committing the crime.
During her daily drives she passed the gibbeted men and the sight greatly distressed her, and caused her to have them taken down.
For this crime Corbet was hanged and gibbeted in a field not far distant from the house where the murder was committed.
It is asserted that the wretch was gibbeted alive, that he lived for several days, and that his sweetheart kept him alive with milk.
They were tried at Kingston, and found guilty of murder, and condemned to be hanged and gibbeted near where they had committed the foul deed.
In the same year a woman and two men were gibbeted on Ashover Moor for murdering one of the King's purveyors.
Sir Robert Constable was gibbeted above the Beverley-gate, Hull, in 1537, for high treason.
The last man gibbeted in this country was James Cook, a bookbinder, at Leicester.
They brought it in burglary, and that's why he was hanged and gibbeted on Brown House Hill.
I whom you would have taken, and, if I had not died sword in hand, have hung at your yard-arm, and then gibbeted at the nearest port as a scarecrow.
It is the belief in the district that Whitfield was gibbeted alive, that he hung for several days in agony, and that his cries were heartrending, until a mail coachman passing that way put him out of his misery by shooting him.
A notorious highwayman, John Whitfield, was executed and gibbeted on Barrock, near Wetheral, Cumberland, about the year 1777.
In accordance with the Code Rohan, the right hand was separated from the body, and gibbeted in an iron cage.
At the last moment they bethought themselves of a wretch who was gibbetedhard by the gate of the principal entrance.
He was convicted, hung, and gibbeted in the chains he so much dreaded.
The body was taken to Bradenham Heath, and there gibbeted in irons.
It is said that he was gibbeted alive, and that the guard of a passing mail-coach put him out of his misery by shooting him.
It was a serious case, and the man was hung, and gibbeted in irons on the Manchester road, near the Twystes.
It may here be recalled that the idea of being gibbeted was ever a very terrifying one to the sufferer, and many a strong man who had stood fearless under the dread sentence broke down when he was measured for his irons.
He evaded the law for seven years, but was finally captured, hung, and gibbeted on Caxton Common, adjoining Bourne.
A bull was similarly tried and condemned for killing a man, but whether the beast was gibbeted is not recorded.
I suppose those unfortunate fellowsgibbeted on yonder thorn were caught by you.
Was he to be gibbeted in the press, to become a byword for oppression, to be named as an example of the greed of the English church?
Among the statesmen who advised him, none has met with such scant mercy from posterity as Laud, who has been gibbeted as the impersonification of narrowness, of bigotry, and of cruelty.
They gibbeted her as Jezebel, and her name became a reproach in Massachusetts through two hundred years.
She saw herself gibbeted between them, knew too well what he would think.
She foresaw that Lady Henge would prove a humble convert, and that she herself, if not to be convicted of gross insincerity, must remain gibbeted in a stubborn unconversion.
On the shore of this reach of the Thames, at Tilbury, is shown a gibbeted pirate hanging in chains, just as it befell Captain William Kidd.
Kidd's body, covered with tar and hung in chains, was gibbeted on the shore of the reach of the Thames hard by Tilbury Fort, as was the customary manner of displaying dead pirates by way of warning to passing seamen.
The type of "wickedness" gibbetedis the familiar one of malicious calumniators and persecutors.
These princes were like those gibbetedfor ever in Isa.
Pirates weregibbeted on the sea shore or river bank.
Holinshed is the authority for the statement that sometimes culprits were gibbeted alive, but this is doubtful.
At six years old he read Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; a year or two later his father made him swear, in presence of the gibbeted corpses of the unsuccessful conspirators of Amboise, to revenge their death.
The "Bunny-hug" was very properly gibbeted in a scathing cartoon, and in his hints to social climbers Punch suggests various styles of vulgar and inane dancing as a passport to notoriety.
Picture: Bloody Oaks] The country folks have quite forgotten Losecoat Field, and think the woodlands of Bloody Oaks were so named from the execution of John Bowland, a highwayman who was gibbeted at Empingham Corner in 1769.
Spencer was hanged at Nottingham, and gibbeted on the scene of his crime.
At one time it had been a wild and lonely place, known as Attercliffe Common, and we were told that Dick Turpin had been gibbeted there.
His head was carried in triumph to Dublin, where it was spiked over the northern gate, and his body was gibbeted on the northern wall, with the feet uppermost.
His body was burned, his head spiked on the market-house of Tullow, and his memory gibbeted in all the loyal publications of the period.
Professions of devotion far more fervid than real, confessions in which the conscience is not stricken, orthodox teachings with no throb of life in them, unconscious hypocrisies of worship, and much besides, are gibbeted here.
Remember how Balaam ended, and stands gibbeted in the New Testament as an evil man, and the type of false teachers.
Because Lord Stowell, a Royalist, complained of the remorseless butchery of the poor people of his neighbourhood, he gibbeted a corpse at his park gate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gibbeted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
