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Meanings of pillory in anglès
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Examples for "gibbet"
Examples for "gibbet"
1
Well for him if the romance be not ended in the gibbet.
2
Our deliverance from the sea would have led but to the gibbet.
3
For him the gibbet, and the crows to pick out his eyes.
4
To you the gibbet proves the crime, because you read not story.
5
Here is a man condemned to death; here is an idle gibbet.
Usage of pillory in anglès
1
The pillory continued in use until the accession of Victoria in 1837.
2
She is sentenced; to-morrow she is to go about in the pillory.
3
The man who wrote it ought to be put in the pillory.
4
Must that poor wretch in the pillory stand out in the rain?
5
Compared with that, even standing in the pillory was not specially grievous.
6
Wretched playactor, we will put him in the pillory for his success.
7
Instead of the whipping post, he instituted the pillory and barrel shirt.
8
The pillory stood not far away, and the May-pole is also mentioned.
9
The Loyalists, for years, put Boston as in a pillory for punishment.
10
As for those who do hurt flies, we pillory them in history.
11
Is a man ever put in the pillory for a capital crime?
12
Still, we had to endure our pillory for a long while yet.
13
Colonel von Szekuly to three days of pillory, and four years' detention.
14
Green closed the pillory and locked it, trapping Matthew's head and arms.
15
For the liberated prisoner: twenty years hard labor, and the pillory.
16
Furthermore, this proposal opens the door for our main competitors to pillory us.
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Pillory across language varieties
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