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Significados de gibbet en inglés

Alternative terms for gallows.

Expose to ridicule or public scorn.

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Examples for "gallous"
Examples for "gallous"
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You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth-Crossjay ,forinstance:-there
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
2
'They're gallous lads for walking round through the world.
In Wicklow and West Kerry
1
This is my gallows tree; and he climbed nimbly and firmly.
The Devil's Garden
2
Where high upon a gallows tree, a yelling wretch is seen-
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
3
Or perhaps a blood-soaked historical figure such as Governor Macquarie is more up your gallows tree.
The Guardian
4
The gallows tree has borne its ghastly fruit.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
5
With gallows tree and nooses three
The witch queen
Uso de gibbet en inglés
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Well for him if the romance be not ended in the gibbet.
East Lynne
2
Our deliverance from the sea would have led but to the gibbet.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
3
For him the gibbet, and the crows to pick out his eyes.
Tales of Destiny
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To you the gibbet proves the crime, because you read not story.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Here is a man condemned to death; here is an idle gibbet.
If I Were King
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The gibbet, reared beside the fort, claimed its toll of their number.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
7
Ser Ryman has made us a laughingstock with that gibbet of his.
A feast for crows
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The gibbet has only increased his glory and made him a martyr.'
Children of the Market Place
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And is this a crime worthy of the wheel or the gibbet?
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch
10
In the center-on grass that was blackened and charred-stood a crude gibbet.
Dragons of autumn twilight
11
What can save you from the workhouse-mefrom the hulks or gibbet?
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
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There was a gibbet in the courtyard, black and foreboding, but unoccupied.
Outlander
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No; they will not gibbet any of us to-day; and possibly not to-morrow.
Empire Builders
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Perhaps that would come later, when he was climbing the gibbet?
Oracle's Queen
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The gibbet stone was at the east end of the Market.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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Nan was a cynical flibberty-gibbet; it might not have been a happy union.
Dangerous Ages
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