That a scaffoldof execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.
One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.
On that black day when England shamed herself before the nations by spilling the blood of her King, the scaffold was erected before this building, though the exact site is unknown.
Lady Raleigh herself waited near the scaffoldin a coach.
Even the scaffold may become a monument of glory, for from it a hero and a martyr passed to his reward.
And even a feeling of remorse seemed to pervade the concourse surrounding the scaffold in view of the sacrifice of so blameless a victim.
Arrangements had been made to have the places immediately around the scaffold filled by the unrelenting foes of the monarch, that no emotions of pity might retard the bloody catastrophe.
Her hands were bound behind her, and she was placed in the cart with twenty-two companions of noble birth, and she was doomed to wait at the foot of the scaffold till all those heads had fallen, before her turn could come.
The hair-dresser perished upon the scaffold for his fidelity.
The sentiment of loyalty had, for so many centuries, pervaded the bosoms of the French people, that they could not conduct their monarch to the scaffold without the deepest emotions of awe.
She forgot thescaffold on which she stood, the cords which bound her hands, the blood-thirsty executioners by her side, the fatal knife gleaming above her head.
Apollonius had taken down the "flying" scaffold and the poles on which it rested; he stood alone on the narrow board which formed the path from the cross-beam to the roof-door.
Then from the scaffold the ladder is built and, if the tower roof is very high, ladder upon ladder.
Nothing holds it together but iron hooks, nothing holds it firm but two pairs of hands on the scaffold and, at the top, the broach-post against which it leans.
Placed over them at an elevation of about five feet was a delicatescaffold made of four posts, not larger than a willow rod.
Then the master of ceremonies removes the smoking vegetable and places it upon a small scaffold of sticks, which they erect over the fire.
Yes, sire; and every one of the words which he spoke to me, through the planks of the scaffold covered with a black cloth, still sounds in my ears.
When the king your father ascended the scaffold, or rather when he passed from his chamber to the scaffold on a level with his window, everything was prepared for his escape.
Yes, my lord, it was I who was beneath the scaffoldduring the execution; I, who had not been able to redeem it, received upon my brow the blood of the martyred king.
Cardinal Tournon described the scene upon the scaffold in language which moved all his audience to tears.
Sidenote: They are brought to thescaffold in their habits.
On the scaffold he chanted the Te Deum, and then, after a few prayers, knelt down, and meekly laid his head upon a pillow where neither care nor fear nor sickness would ever vex it more.
The scaffold had been awkwardly erected, and shook as he placed his foot upon the ladder.
The great square of the ducal palace, where the scaffold was erected, was crowded with the Florentine populace; and the windows were literally alive with human faces.
It was a passion which would induce her to ascend the scaffold to save him; or to plunge the vengeful dagger into his heart did she fancy that he deceived her!
On this scaffold was a huge block: and near the block stood the headsman, carelessly leaning on his ax, the steel of which was polished and bright as silver.
In answer the malcontents raised a scaffold beside the cross, and on it stood Warriston, with a reply written by the nobles representing the people, which was received with shouts of applause.
The SCENE changes to the Vivarambla, and appears filled with Spectators; a Scaffold hung with black.
That would have saved him from the treason he perpetrated--the accomplished Andre from the scaffold and thousands from the ravages subsequently committed by the reckless traitor.
Harrison, a bold leader in the revolution of the English Commonwealth who was sacrificed on the scaffold for his liberal principles.
Marie Antoinette was to be drawn from the prison to the scaffold in a common cart, seated on a bare plank; the executioner by her side, holding the cords with which her hands were already bound.
In the summer of the next year it was found in his possession, its history was ascertained, and he was sent to the scaffold for the sole offense of having and valuing a relic of his murdered sovereign.
They brought Louis to thescaffold by the unanimity of their votes.
The rest, with Madame Roland, the first prompter of deeds of blood, languished in their well-deserved prisons till the close of autumn, when they all perished on the same scaffold to which they had sent their innocent sovereign.
Almost all of them perished on the same scaffold to which they had consigned their virtuous sovereigns, meeting a fate in one respect worse even than theirs, from the infamy of the names which they have left behind them.
Let their road to the scaffold be the pathway of crime, ours shall be that of virtue; let the hemlock be got ready for me, I await it on this hallowed spot.
Birotteau, seized at Bordeaux, on the 24th of October, mounts the scaffold within twenty-four hours.
As he stood on the scaffoldin the cold morning air, he foiled James and Philip at one thrust, and conquered the esteem of all posterity.
Growing tired of this new wife, she was sent to the scaffold to make way for Jane Seymour, by whom he had one son, Edward.
She was placed at a window, opposite to which the scaffold had been erected.
At this second summons hee came butt not without great expectations to bee affronted in a most notorious manner beeing the first time a ministre came to appeare on a scaffold and that upon soe sinister an occasion.
He needed only, as soon as the execution was over, to allow Mynheer Boxtel to ascend the scaffold with his servants, to remove the inanimate remains of his friend.
The scaffold indeed looked like an islet at the confluence of several rivers.
His behaviour during his last days and on thescaffold was perfect.
In order to prevent condemned heretics from preaching and singing on the scaffold a gag was put into their mouths.
When upon the scaffold the Jesuits used their utmost endeavours to make him recant, and return to his former faith, but he paid not the least attention to their exhortations.
Procopius Dorzecki on the scaffold said, "We are now under the emperor's judgment; but in time he shall be judged, and we shall appear as witnesses against him.
The words and behaviour of Lady Jane upon the scaffold 204 John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, &c.
When he came upon the scaffold he said, "I have travelled through many countries, and traversed various barbarous nations, yet never found so much cruelty as at home.
From what the King said, monsieur, you may count upon mounting the scaffold in my stead.
Egmont asked whether it would be well to say anything on the scaffold for the edification of the people.
A scaffold was erected, at one end of the room, to the height of six or seven steps.
In front of the scaffold was the provost of the court, mounted on horseback and bearing the red wand of office in his hand.
Opposite to this gallery a large scaffold was erected, so as to be visible from all parts of the arena, and was appropriated to the unhappy martyrs who were to suffer in the auto.
On the scaffold and at the stake this intrepid spirit did not desert them; and the testimony they bore to the truth of the cause for which they suffered had such an effect on the bystanders, that it was found necessary to silence them.
But none was made; and the night passed away without disturbance, except what was occasioned by the sound of busy workmen employed in constructing a scaffold for the scene of execution on the following day.
The coffin of the deceased queen, covered with its gorgeous pall of brocade, was placed on a scaffold shrouded in black, and surrounded with numerous silver sconces bearing wax tapers, that shed a gloomy lustre over the scene.
Most of these were soon after taken, the preacher La Grange among the rest, and to the number of thirty-six were sentenced either to the scaffold or the gallows.
