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Meanings of escape the gallows in English

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Usage of escape the gallows in English
1
If he escape the gallows in the end, it will be a mercy.
The Iron Rule; Or, Tyranny in the Household
2
The fear of death paralysed her efforts to escape the gallows.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
3
But still if Forder lives the week out, Radnor will escape the gallows.
Revenge!
4
Answer me truly, and you may escape the gallows.
Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia
5
You must come and be my chaplain some day; if we are both alive and escape the gallows so long.
By What Authority?
6
And it all came from that worthless son of his years agone having to leave the country to escape the gallows.
Bristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth Century
7
It was to stand for treason and claim the pardon, or be fined, or take a year in Doomsdale, and escape the gallows.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
8
The second man had been horrified at the murder, and desired to disassociate himself from it so that he might escape the gallows.
The Hampstead Mystery
9
The blow has been struck, and I am not a man to neglect the precautions necessary to escape the gallows, if I can.
The Amulet
10
The sailor, Bill, pretended to believe that I had killed a man on shore and had gone to sea to escape the gallows.
Vandemark's Folly
11
He would have made her a mother in her turn if he had not killed himself the same year, maybe to escape the gallows.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
12
It was just a question whether they should be hung or not, and there was some wonder that the Judge let them escape the gallows.
When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great ...
13
At this happy conclusion to his labours, Frere went down to comfort the girl for whose sake he had suffered Rex to escape the gallows.
For the Term of His Natural Life
14
We might as well bury it here on the chance that some of us will escape the gallows to come back and enjoy it later.
Tarzan of the Apes
15
I offer you a certain means of escaping the gallows, and you hesitate!
The Amulet
16
The major escaped the gallows only by dying in prison.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), America...
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