gallows-bird

• “Hath this gallows-bird aught remaining wherewith to buy slave-girls?”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Quoth Zurayk, who returned at the sound, Thy perfidy hath come to light, O gallows-bird!”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• ““He is a gallows-bird that will get on in the world,” said Etienne, careless whether the wily schemer overheard the remark or not, as he shut the door of the box.”

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

• “What's this to you, you gallows-bird, you crow's meat?”

  Satyricon

• ““What a gallows-bird!” said Pere Canquoelle to his neighbor Monsieur Pillerault.”

  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

• ““Why, thou gallows-bird — thou jail-rat — thou friend of the hangman and his customers!” replied Foster, “hast thou the assurance to expect countenance from any one whose neck is beyond the compass of a Tyburn tippet?””

  Kenilworth

• “Dick Malone, my gallows-bird, I arrest you in the name of the law.”

  Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood

• “You're to sell, you mean, you gallows-bird," returned Jasper.”

  Adrien Leroy

• “It's true," said he, "I am gallows-bird enough myself, but then I'm open, and no man can say I'm a-fear'd; but Johnny, Johnny, who" ----”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

• “At last he began to abuse Johnny for being, as he said, such a sneaking, cowardly fellow -- such a treacherous, false-hearted gallows-bird.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

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