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  • More hands grabbed her arms and she felt herself dragged bodily down the scaffold's steps.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • Apparently some really strong winds knocked the scaffold's support rigging and that's when this thing just went haywire.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005 2005

  • So too another helicopter from KTRK TV on the scene within seconds on the word of the word of the scaffold's collapse.

    CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2001 2001

  • No one had taken much notice of the small boy at the scaffold's end and, when the heavens had opened and the rain come down in bucketfuls to scatter the crowd, no one had bothered when Biddy Hakeswill's brother had cut the boy down and set him loose.

    Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

  • I cannot honestly suppress my conviction that the object in the case of Poerio, as a man of mental power sufficient to be feared, is to obtain the scaffold's aim by means more cruel than the scaffold, and without the outcry which the scaffold would create.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed, ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court.

    Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

  • The future with its sufferings, the shame, the scaffold's blaze;

    The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

  • Poerio, as a man of mental power sufficient to be feared, is to obtain the scaffold's aim by means more cruel than the scaffold, and without the outcry which the scaffold would create.

    The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

  • If I fail, if the scaffold's dressed for me, why where's the harm?

    Clementina 1906

  • These preparations made, the soldiers stood at ease; the officers lounged to and fro, in the alley they had made, or talked together at the scaffold's foot; and the concourse, which had been rapidly augmenting for some hours, and still received additions every minute, waited with an impatience which increased with every chime of St Sepulchre's clock, for twelve at noon.

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

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