Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds.
At this surrender of Calais, the question whether the six townsmen came forth with halters round their necks or with ropes in their hands need not disturb the reader.
Enter, below, multitudes with halters about their necks.
He is fled my Lord, and all his powers do yeeld, And humbly thus with halters on their neckes, Expect your Highnesse doome of life, or death King.
Rope halters have caused more horses to hurt or kill themselves than would pay for twice the cost of all the leather halters that have ever been needed for the purpose of haltering colts.
Some of his horsemen had only halters for bridles.
He looked, a bystander said, as if all the peers present had halters in their pockets.
The thousands who were disappointed of their revenge pursued the coach, with howls of rage, to the gate of the Tower, brandishing cudgels, and holding up halters full in the prisoner's view.
He was a tenderfoot, of the sort that always, to its dying day, unhobbles its horses before putting their halters on.
Let us examine this latter question of halters for a moment.
Sidenote: All Perkins partakers in their shirts with haltersabout their necks appeare before the king.
We had told him that he had better place them elsewhere, for that the camels would certainly break theirhalters in order to get at them.
Fifteen were tried, found guilty, and ordered to be hanged; and they were taken for execution on board the Royal Ann, with haltersround their necks.
At their head walked the consuls, barefooted, with haltersaround their necks, and clothed in sackcloth.
Throwing the ends of the halters to Billy, the mozo concluded his mission.
After the mozo left, Billy cut the halters from around their necks and brought them food and drink from the house.
For scaffolds and halters were full in her view, And the fiends of perdition their cutlasses drew: And axes and gibbets around her were placed, And the demons of murder her honours defaced.
English settlers were plundered and killed, or led about with halters round their necks.
Thomond was pacified entirely at Ormonde's charge, and the work was done but just in time, for many of his men had been engaged in the late rebellion, and were fighting with halters round their necks.
But Perrott was forced to be content, and had similar ceremonies performed in other towns, the inferior traitors wearing haltersround their necks.
The Devil, in the present instance, is made “to take care of his own,” and has a stock of halters and axes for the rebels.
Not a saddle is removed, or girth untightened; while the bridles, remaining on their horses' heads, are but used as halters to attach them to the trees.
At length Richard marched on towards Kilkenny, and many of the lesser chieftains came humbly, with halters round their necks, suing for pardon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
