hanging

• In the background is an ecclesiastical hanging which is embroidered to represent a cathedral window. —  Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
• Every house draped itself in some kind of hanging--the rich in coarse silk, the poorer in bunting or whatever they could get. —  Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
• And I believe it would appear that the Reformation gradually swept away the black horrors of the torture-room; that the butchery of the headsman's block ceased at the close of the civil contest which settled the line of regal succession; and that hanging, which is the proper death of the cur, is now reserved for those only who place themselves out of the pale of humanity by striking at human life ALFRED GATTY Ecclesfield E. S. S. W. (Vol. —  Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
• I, however, let Larry carry on the chief part of the conversation If you've run from a man-of-war, you'll have to lie snug as mice in their holes till she sails, or there's three dozen at least for each of you, if they don't run you up at the yard-arm, as they did at Portsmouth the other day to a poor boy, just because he wanted to go home to his wife and family," said the man This, though a fact as far as the hanging was concerned, I hadn't heard of before. —  Paddy Finn
• "We'll locate the best trees for a hanging, and we'll set 'em up there Nan moved over to an open window as the two headmen took their departure. —  The Forfeit

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