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Significats de hangman's rope en anglès
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dogal A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging.
Ús de hangman's rope en anglès
1
I began to see visions of the gallows and the hangman's rope.
2
Perchance a hangman's rope was hanging near me even now.
3
Catch Bob Stubbs afraid of anything, except the hangman's rope!
4
They had waited at that station like men with the hangman's rope upon their necks.
5
Apparently he found a loophole through which to escape me-the loop at the end of a hangman's rope.
6
If my arms are not soon around his neck, it may be the hangman's rope which will be there.
7
The New Yorker, November 3, 1934 P. 16 Nobody competes for the trade of hangman's rope.
8
The officers of the law may not suspect him, the hangman's rope may never come near him, but no murderer escapes.
9
He shows the danger of taking words too literally, since a 'Bridport dagger' is only another name for the hangman's rope.
10
Dozens of witnesses from the Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion took the stand to braid a hangman's rope of untruthful testimony.
11
Muskwa had fallen the wrong way out of his crotch and was dangling like the victim at the end of a hangman's rope.
12
He looks as if he had a bold heart for the highway, and a neck that was made express for the hangman's rope!
13
His burnt ashes, scattered to the winds, were picked up eagerly by the mob, reputed, as in England the pieces of the hangman's rope, talismans.
14
You have it swaddled up as if you were determined to defy the hangman's rope from ever getting a hold of you, ejaculated Charles Holstrom.
15
To be "straightened out" was an ambiguous phrase which might refer to the end of the hangman's rope or to a fatal electric shock.
16
But sometimes it is worth while tossing a penny to see which it shall be-fortune, or the hangman'srope.