In a coach he followed the tumbril that bore Robespierre to execution, radiant of countenance and shouting with the loudest, "Death to the traitor!
I should have done far better to follow your advice, my good Schmucke, and dined here every day, and given up going into this society, that has fallen on me with all its weight, like a tumbril cart crushing an egg!
Coconnas raised his hand and touched the shoulder of the executioner, who sat at the front of the tumbril driving.
He whom you met one day near Montfaucon, madame, and who in his tumbril brought back two wounded gentlemen to the Louvre.
The tumbril in which Coconnas and La Mole were laid started back toward Paris, following in the shadow the guiding group.
Then he threw his cloak over the sad remains which the tumbril was to convey to his own abode.
She mounted the tumbril awaiting in the prison yard, and, disdaining the chair offered her by Sanson, remained standing, to show herself dauntless to the mob and brave its rage.
So densely thronged were the streets that the tumbrilproceeded at a crawl, and the people surging about the cart screamed death and insult at the doomed woman.
The sudden spiritual passion which inflamed him when he beheld her in thetumbril on her way to the scaffold is a fitting corollary to her action.
At five o'clock that same afternoon he stepped from the tumbril under the gaunt shadow of the guillotine.
The tumbril story--whether correct or otherwise--is a matter of indifference to me.
It is recorded that as the tumbril jolted its way over the stones, a man in priest's dress was seen pressing through the crowd, trying desperately to force a way to the cart.
They say he had a hand in the escape of the ci-devant Due de Sermeuse and all his brats from the very tumbril which was taking them to execution.
The day after that, the tumbril and the guillotine for that execrable English spy, and the boundless sense of satisfaction that his last intrigue had aborted in such a signal and miserable manner.
Past him plodded the red-legged infantry; he saw, through the whirlwind of dust, the vague outlines of a tumbril and horse standing below in the ditch, and he ran along the grassy depression towards the vehicle.
There was a pause, the crowd was so dense at this corner; then the tumbril moved on again.
Latour looked at the frightened wretch who was literally thrown into the tumbril after him, but the expression on his face did not change; he did not speak.
At least, so the men in the 20th said; the sergeant marching next to him behind the tumbril most of all.
Arter that they laid out them anchors on the weather side of the wall, and shoved some planks daown under the tumbril and 'auled that out pretty smart with a tackle on each side.
As there was generally no room for me even to perch on the tumbril when it was loaded, I walked a good many miles in the course of moving.
I had to drive down seventeentumbril loads from the cottage, although we did not want all our furniture for the barge.
They come back abaout seven o'clock o' the evening, wonnerful and lively, and just where the road bends afore you come to the Ferry that was bangy and dark they some'ow got ould Gladstone and the tumbril in the crick.
Jim and Lishe hired ould Gladstone and Cockney Smith's tumbrilto go to a niece's weddin' at Northend.
And she stretched out her hands towards a man who was following the tumbril on horseback, and so dropped the torch, which the doctor took, and the crucifix, which fell on the floor.
But, slowly as it moved, the tumbril steadily advanced, and at last reached the place of Notre-Dame.
As soon as the tumbril is at this door, they have only to tell me, and I go down.
This advice she followed till they gained the gate into the street where the tumbril was waiting; then she lifted her eyes to see the shameful object.
After this declaration, they were going to drive the tumbril nearer to the scaffold, but the crowd was so dense that the assistant could not force a way through, though he struck out on every side with his whip.
When they reached the Place de Greve, the tumbril stopped at a little distance from the scaffold.
The man who touched the back of the tumbril is Desgrais, who arrested me at Liege, and treated me so badly all along the road.
The archers drove back the crowding people, and the tumbril went up to the steps, and there stopped.
Nothing," she said; "it is only the tumbrilcart and the executioner going to the Place Louis XV.
The abbe, yielding to an impulse of curiosity, looked up above the heads, and there in the tumbril stood the man who had heard mass in the garret three days ago.
The once light lip wears a curl of irony, uttering no word; and the Tumbril fares along.
Like a black Spectre, daily at eventide, glides the Death-tumbril through the variegated throng of things.
The second tumbril empties and moves on; the third comes up.
The leading curiosity is, to know which is he; he stands at the back of the tumbril with his head bent down, to converse with a mere girl who sits on the side of the cart, and holds his hand.
At the beginning of the conversation the tumbril stands still, later it is moving slowly, escorted through a turbulent crowd by National Guards to its destination in the Place Louis Quinze (Place de la Revolution.
Close by the tumbril rode Desgrez, the officer who had captured her in Liege.
The rest suffered in terms of the sentence, and were conveyed to the place of execution in the same tumbril with the bloody corpse of their suicide colleague.
The driver of their tumbril swore roundly, but nothing could be done except drive back a block or two and proceed through a very narrow street, scarcely more than an alley.
The last tumbril would doubtless arrive in good time without their assistance!
The wrathful driver of the tumbril shook his fist at them, swore to have them all arrested later, gathered up his reins, and the cart lumbered heavily away, while he remained entirely in ignorance of the fact that his load was lighter by two!
The tumbril story—whether correct or otherwise—is a matter of indifference to me.
The vehicle is not the tumbril but a wheelbarrow, and the man propelling it is younger than the lady, who is pulling his hair.
This may be a shrewish wife being wheeled in the tumbril to the waterside, there to undergo for the better ruling of her tongue, a punishment the authority for which was custom older than law.
He saw Jeanne, and only Jeanne, standing on the tumbril and being led to the guillotine.
Where the fatal tumbril used to labor past, the frequent omnibus now rattled gayly by; and the pavements trodden of old by Voltaire, and Beaumarchais, and Charlotte Corday, were thronged by a merry tide of students and grisettes.
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