gallows

• The prison and the gallows are the end for everyone. —  The Just
• It must be remembered that in those days the gallows was a very popular institution. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• Songs, half blood-thirsty and half obscene, gestures indicative some of murder, some of debauchery, cries of “Vive la nation!” interspersed with inarticulate yells, were the sounds, the guillotine and the queen upon the gallows were the sights, which were thought in character with the legislature of a people which still claimed to be regarded as the pattern of civilization by all Europe. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• And the Triple Tree, the Three-Legged Mare, or Deadly Never-green, as the gallows were called with grim familiarity, flourished for another two hundred years. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• And these expeditions keeping him continually bare, robbing and junketting, desire of pleasure and fear of the gallows were the whole round of both his actions and his thoughts. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

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