A show of gladiators was to be exhibited before the people in the marketplace, and most of the magistrates erected scaffolds round about, with an intention of letting them for advantage.
The people erected scaffolds in the Forum, in the circuses, as they call their buildings for horse-races, and in all other parts of the city where they could best behold the show.
The guns and scaffolds and wooden towers were all there but they were powerless against Aberystwith and the brave Welshmen who, under Owen's lieutenant, Rhys ap Griffith ap Llewelyn, defended it.
A troop of carpenters were to sail from Bristol for the devoted spot and erect scaffolds and wooden towers upon a scale such as had not been before witnessed at any of the innumerable sieges of this Welsh war.
Other scaffolds of at least four or five stories, and painted almost all with the same fanciful brilliancy, formed the other three sides.
A sort of instinctive reasoning told the people, what the learned on neither side had been able to discover, that the truth of a religion begins to be very suspicious, when it stands in need of prisons and scaffolds to eke out its evidences.
It is, indeed, unreasonable to deny that there might be, nay, there probably were, some real conspirators among those who suffered on the scaffolds of Henry.
By the same means he produced the elk skins dressed and made into a large lodge, far larger than any of his people, which was erected, and the meat of the elk piled around the lodge on scaffolds outside.
It is only when the corpses fall from scaffolds or the bones of the dead by some means have become exposed that a second burial takes place; otherwise no Indians disturb the repose of the dead.
Over the gate, and in many other parts of the wall, there are scaffolds having ladders up to them, and on these scaffolds there are large heaps of stones, ready for defending the place against an enemy.
The scaffolds ran red with the blood of the priests.
The scaffolds were distributed over all the quarters of Paris, and the burnings followed on successive days, the design being to spread the terror of heresy by spreading the executions.
For this purpose some scaffolds were built outside the wall so that the pioneers might work comfortably.
Many scaffolds were also erected for the purpose of letting, the prices varying from 2s.
They build scaffolds of many poles, three or four rows, and one above the others.
They bury them on scaffolds where the animals cannot reach them.
Then they dance around thescaffolds while the old men beat the drums and rattle the gourds.
The scaffoldsof the chiefs are distinguished from the others by pieces of red or blue cloth which are thrown over the bodies.
These scaffolds are constructed by placing three upright posts in the ground in the shape of a parallelogram, and connecting them by lateral bars.
When the scaffolds decay and fall, the relatives collect the bones and bury them.
Pen, and in our way saw the city begin to build scaffolds against the Coronacion.
After staying a while with them, I went home and sat up late, spending my thoughts how to get money to bear me out in my great expense at the Coronacion, against which all provide, and scaffolds setting up in every street.
The last of the three scaffolds consists of solid masonry about ten feet high, broad at the bottom, and ending in a narrow platform in the middle of which stands a stake furnished with iron chains and clamps.
The May sun, that same sun that shone upon the first defeat of the English before Orleans, pure and luminous, floods the three scaffolds with its light.
Into the Hall I got, where it was very fine with hangings and scaffolds one upon another full of brave ladies; and my wife in one little one, on the right hand.
When plays were performed in the open air, temporary scaffolds or stages were commonly erected for the purpose; though in some cases the scaffold was set on wheels, so as to be easily moved from one part of the town to another.
On each side of the court were two large scaffolds for the Virgin's tradespeople.
Every grave had been rifled, and the bodies flung down from the scaffolds where, after the Illinois custom, many of them had been placed.
When they arrived, they found that Duhaut and his companions had already cut up the meat, and laid it upon scaffolds for smoking, though it was not yet so dry as, it seems, this process required.
It is easily found, as all the paths between the separate scaffolds run into it.
Not graves, as is usual, underground; but scaffolds standing high above it--such being the mode of Tovas interment.
And scaffolds they are, though not employed in any building purposes; instead, for that of burial.
On this elevated cemetery the moon is shining brightly, though obliquely, throwing the shadows of the scaffolds aslant, so that each has its counterpart on the smooth turf by its side, dark as itself, but magnified in the moonlight.
Scaffolds they appear, each having two stages, one above the other, such as might be used in the erection of a two-storey house!
Outside the village, at a short distance on the prairie, was a group of such scaffolds upon which the dead were left to moulder, somewhat after the fashion of the Parsees.
In the spaces between the houses were the scaffoldsfor drying maize, buffalo meat, etc.
The same feeling also prevents them from ever using old scaffolds or any of the wood which has been used about them, even for firewood, though the necessity may be very great, for fear some evil consequences will follow.
These scaffolds are about eight feet high and made by planting four forked sticks firmly in the ground, one at each corner and then placing others across on top, so as to form a floor on which the body is securely fastened.
State whether they are suspended from trees, put on scaffolds or posts, allowed to float on the water or sunk beneath it, or buried in the ground.
From what can be learned the choice of this mode depends greatly on the facilities present, where timber abounds, trees being used, if absent, scaffolds being employed.
These Indians being in all things most superstitious, attach a kind of sacredness to these scaffolds and all the materials used or about the dead.
The one representing scaffold-burial resembles greatly the scaffolds of our own Indians.
With regard to the use of scaffolds as places of deposit for the dead, the following theories by Dr.
These scaffolds are constructed upon four posts set into the ground something after the manner of the rude drawing which I inclose.
The American Indians are by no means the only savages employing scaffolds as places of deposit for the dead, for Wood[72] gives a number of examples of this mode of burial.
At its lower extremity is a small island on which are five houses, at present vacant, though the scaffolds of fish are as usual abundant.
Our baggage was placed on scaffolds and carefully covered, as were also the instruments and papers, which we thought it safer to leave than to risk over the roads and creeks by which we came.
Heere wee thought to have made an end of all, and to have puld downe the scaffolds and stage, but then many said that so much preparacon was too much for so small a show.
The hall is to be furnished with scaffolds to sit on, for Ladies to behold the sports, on each side.
But the carpenters being no way ready with the stage, or scaffolds (whereof notwithstanding some were made before Christmas), wee were constrained to deferre it till the nexte day, which was the 29th of December.
The hall was furnished with scaffolds for the ladies who were then invited to behold the sports.
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