Halters

For a few years, the Halters gave demonstrations of their gun once a year at a waterfowl festival in Tuckerton, New Jersey, firing the gun with powder only.

A 13-Foot-Long Shotgun 2007

_Hugh Peters_, hanging in Halters: Betwixt which was placed the Earl of

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

The Men were led in pulling at the Halters and with their Ears laid back.

More Fables George Ade 1905

Halters for the silly neck that cannot keep a crown. '

Songs from Books Rudyard Kipling 1900

Halters are then thrown about their necks, and they are led forward where the mothers can nose them over and lick them.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Halters with running nooses had been prepared, and hung upon the beams which supported the roof.

Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

"Halters, bring halters!" they cried; "hang up the traitor bishop and his accomplices on the gibbet."

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

Halters were broken, and horses and mules pranced over the tent ropes; and it was some minutes before the cause of this confusion was ascertained.

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865

Our hands were bound behind us with cords, Halters were put about our necks, and, the

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

Halters, each of which had fulfilled its destiny, formed the attraction of the next compartment; while a fourth was occupied by an array of implements of housebreaking almost innumerable, and utterly indescribable.

Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843