She, poor woman, who still saw before her the tumbrel and the scaffold of Marie Antoinette, had an instinctive horror of all that might connect her with royalty; she therefore hesitated to reply and referred all questions to her husband.
Picture to yourself a tumbrel of prisoners on their way to Lons-le-Saulnier.
This one has its advantages; it is only about a hundred feet from the prison, which economized and still economizes the tumbrel and the horse of M.
Spurring his horse, he entered the town with face uncovered, dashed through people who called him by name, astonished to see him free and on horseback, when they expected to see him bound and in a tumbrel on his way to be executed.
Francois moved away, and the tumbrel went rumbling on.
The tumbrel came slowly, and, because of the surging mass of people, paused opposite to him.
We will go to see thee--I and thy hunchback--to see thee on the tumbrelat the guillotine.
The tumbrel was a low-rolling cart or carriage (in law Latin, tumberella) which was used as a punishment of disgrace and infamy.
The jury present that the tumbrel be repaired and maintained from time to time, according to the statute.
To take a violent, noisy woman from her chamber, tie madam to the tumbrel and whip her round the town, was an undertaking that demanded assistance and protection to the official or hireling that wielded the thong.
Occasionally what appeared a solid body of living fire shot skyward, accompanied by a loud report, as a powder-tumbrel was struck by one of the flying missiles.
A blaze of light on the left marked where a powder tumbrel had exploded.
It was a terrible position just then, for to be suspected of pity for a condamne was an offence which might easily place the sympathiser on the tumbrel beside the victim.
If any saw me come out, they probably set me down as one of the tumbrel drivers on his way to breakfast, and paid me no more heed than such a fellow deserved; indeed less, for on that day of all others Paris was in a tremendous ferment.
The tumbrel stopped before the door of Notre Dame, and a paper was put into her hands, from which she read, in a firm voice, a confession of her crimes.
Next came a tumbrel bearing the naked corpses of the slain, whose faces, mutilated by their wounds and disfigured by blood, glared horribly up, with open eyes, in the red torchlight that flared in the night blast around!
And, indeed, while he was yet speaking, a tumbrel loaded with arms of every description drove silently up, and each man supplied himself with a weapon that suited his fancy.
Thus Lysons, in his "Environs of London," states that at a court of the Manor of Edgware in 1552 the inhabitants were presented for not having a tumbrel and a ducking-stool as laid down by law.
It was evident that he could not endure the jolting of the cart, and we finally rigged up a sort of litter out of a portion of the tumbrel top, and the men took turns in bearing him on this between them.
He had been wounded in the shoulder, and at the suggestion of Captain Orme mounted the tumbrel and drove the horses, while I walked beside it.
You will get the tumbrel ready for the general, lieutenant," he said quietly.
At that moment, a tumbrel drawn by two maddened horses dashed by.
Her body bounded at every jolt of the tumbrel like a dead or broken thing; her gaze was dull and imbecile.
A tumbrel drawn by a stout Norman horse, and all surrounded by cavalry in violet livery with white crosses, had just debouched upon the Place through the Rue Saint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs.
Collinson says in his History of Somersetshire, written in 1791: "In Shipton Mallet was anciently set up a tumbrel for the correction of unquiet women.
When the ducking was accomplished, the tumbrel was drawn out of the water by the ropes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumbrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
