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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 "pillory"
Examples for "pillory"
1
The pillory continued in use until the accession of Victoria in 1837.
The Leading Facts of English History
2
She is sentenced; to-morrow she is to go about in the pillory.
O. T., A Danish Romance
3
The man who wrote it ought to be put in the pillory.
Hide and Seek
4
Must that poor wretch in the pillory stand out in the rain?
Lucky Pehr
5
Compared with that, even standing in the pillory was not specially grievous.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 04
Uso de gibbet en inglés
1
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
4
To you the gibbet proves the crime, because you read not story.
The Cloister and the Hearth
5
Here is a man condemned to death; here is an idle gibbet.
If I Were King
6
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
8
The gibbet has only increased his glory and made him a martyr.'
Children of the Market Place
9
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
12
There was a gibbet in the courtyard, black and foreboding, but unoccupied.
Outlander
13
No; they will not gibbet any of us to-day; and possibly not to-morrow.
Empire Builders
14
Perhaps that would come later, when he was climbing the gibbet?
Oracle's Queen
15
The gibbet stone was at the east end of the Market.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
16
Nan was a cynical flibberty-gibbet; it might not have been a happy union.
Dangerous Ages
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