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Let us take a Review of the Dungeons, Whips, Chains, Racks, Gibbets, with which every Society is abundantly stored, by which hundreds of Victims are annually offered up to support a dozen or two in Pride and Madness, and Millions in an abject Servitude, and Dependence.
Beating up your teenage daughter isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law. 2008
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Let us take a Review of the Dungeons, Whips, Chains, Racks, Gibbets, with which every Society is abundantly stored, by which hundreds of Victims are annually offered up to support a dozen or two in Pride and Madness, and Millions in an abject Servitude, and Dependence.
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Let us take a Review of the Dungeons, Whips, Chains, Racks, Gibbets, with which every Society is abundantly stored, by which hundreds of Victims are annually offered up to support a dozen or two in Pride and Madness, and Millions in an abject Servitude, and Dependence.
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Let us take a Review of the Dungeons, Whips, Chains, Racks, Gibbets, with which every Society is abundantly stored, by which hundreds of Victims are annually offered up to support a dozen or two in Pride and Madness, and Millions in an abject Servitude, and Dependence.
Law enforcement 2007
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Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets first published under the title Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien 1931 Copyright © A. Fayard et Cie, 1931
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04 — Simenon, Georges
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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Ancient Generals have been nailed to Gibbets alive, for such crimes.
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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‘Gibbets and crows!’ he hissed, and they shuddered at the hideous change.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Gibbets were erected under the windows of the house, to intimidate the prisoners; and at the end of a week they were marched off to Castle Downie, -- the Master of Lovat going there in warlike array, with a pair of colours and a body of five hundred men.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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Thousand_ Gibbets _are not so bad to me as One_ Douegna.
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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