How To Use Gallows In A Sentence
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We made the typical jokes about whether we would be there at the same time the next week - gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows.
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Stephen Friedman, another London gallery, will show Glasgow-based David Shrigley, an expert in gallows humor whose works include a taxidermied dog.
Shopping for a New Barbed-Wire Cowboy Hat
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If found guilty, he faces the gallows.
Times, Sunday Times
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That sounds heavy: in fact, this play abounds in mischievous gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
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The city's souvenir T-shirt shops are also thriving on gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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On his final night out, gallows humour reigned supreme.
The Sun
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They died in agonies on the gallows, where they were sometimes left for the birds to peck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each cylindrical mirror is balanced on the slimmest of supports: one steel wire, as thin as dental floss, that is attached to the gallowslike frame.
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Dr. Scoville, though he still kept his word and maintained his position with regard to the prisoners, continually "thorned" the captain with a prospect of the gallows, which he declared was his certain doom.
The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer
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Deadly serious - or gallows humour?
Times, Sunday Times
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For all the gallows humour, I know which one felt like the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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Appeals to save such brave but desperate men from the gallows occasionally struck a chord with the wealthy and patriotic.
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You could start by going back to their fine debut, last year's Gallowsbird's Bark.
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And we'll be wedded ere we dorse this night; [9] "Well lipp'd," quoth Joe, "no more you need to say" -- [10] "Gee-up! gallows, do you want my sand to-day?
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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Theaters were in the disreputable part of town, with pimps and gallows and bear-baiting," she said.
Eats and Tweets in the Seats
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Typically in this part of the country the gallows humour wasn't slow in rearing its head.
The Sun
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It's how players seem to deal with any crisis - gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gallows were ready, having been carefully inspected, constructed, and tested overnight.
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Henceforth, my friend," said he, "moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your own safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and, above all, take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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The rest stayed and chanted songs of gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ultimate extension of this premise, of course, is so-called gallows humor.
Dustbury.com » The Laugher curve
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The rest stayed and chanted songs of gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in;” now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
The first part of King Henry the Fourth
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In addition to the laugh and I do agree with Icanhasyarn that this one looks like a gallows, which is a particularly horrific motif for a birthday cake, I also have the comfort of knowing my birthday cake - since I will be making it myself - will look ever so much more festive and happ.
One Really IS the Loneliest Number
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Typically in this part of the country the gallows humour wasn't slow in rearing its head.
The Sun
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The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
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Towards the end of his career he became increasingly convinced that many of the protestations of innocence made at the gallows were genuine.
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The gallows perhaps is the English term most nearly corresponding to the barathrum, as commonly spoken of in the Athenian popular language.
Aristides
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No one can be safe for long from people who have no respect for human rights and think nothing of killing innocent people or sending them to prison or to the gallows in their lust for power.
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Deadly serious - or gallows humour?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
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Here's a bra 'din, indeed, about an auld wife gaun to the grave, a young limmer to the close-heads and causeway, and a sticket stibbler [A student of divinity who has not been able to complete his studies on theology.] to the sea instead of the gallows!'
Redgauntlet
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They had a deal in common: beauty and a certain gallows humour about the tragedies they shared.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, so far as its physical aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty — its irregularity, which is neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows
The Scarlet Letter
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When the day of execution came, the rumour of a deforcement at the gallows prevailed strongly; and the
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
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They came forward and gripped the length of rope that dangled from the gallows and tugged on it.
The Size of Things « A Fly in Amber
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But this young birkie here, that ye are hounding the fastest way to the gallows -- tell me, will all his stage-plays and his poetries, or your broad oaths and drawn dirks tell him where Rashleigh Osbaldistone is?
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Was this a massive bribe to save Will from a charge of infanticide and possibly the gallows?
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'Ay; that is, with the law, or by the law; be strapped up on the KIND gallows of Crieff, [Footnote: See Note 16.] where his father died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.'
Waverley
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ACTS constitute protection; and is that public sentiment which makes the slave 'property,' and perpetrates hourly robbery and batteries upon him, so penetrated with a sense of the sacredness of his right to life, that it will protect it at all hazards, and drag to the gallows his OWNER, if he take the life of his own _property_?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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The gallows had almost been completed when her reprieve came through.
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In August, he was hanged on Gallows Hill, one of 19 people executed for witchcraft.
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They had a deal in common: beauty and a certain gallows humour about the tragedies they shared.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ordinary gallows is comparatively humane; the victim falls through a trap and drops far enough to break his neck and he dies instantly.
The Approaching Climax
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The greater the crime, the higher the gallows.
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The Tyburn, on the Tadcaster Road side of Knavesmire, was where York's gallows were situated from 1379 until 1812.
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Thus, they could avoid fines, whippings, imprisonment, or worse, the gallows!
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If a woman miscarried, went into labor early, or had trouble hiring a midwife, she could be sent to the gallows.
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They reached the steps that led up toward the yard where the gallows stood, but this rime they passed them by.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.
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The planets dangle in a line beside the forest track to the observatory, suspended from wooden gallows and wobbling slightly in the wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who but the Jews would build their own gallows, tie their own nooses, and hire the hangmen to stretch their necks?
Peter Manseau’s “Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter” excerpt « The Blog at 16th and Q
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An assessment of great music should allow for a wider variety of moods and expressions - lament, meander, laughter, rage, gallows humor, resignation, and much more.
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It is you and the like of you that deprave and demoralize youth and prepare criminals for the gallows.
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Hadary's song and dance on the gallows is the one place where everything comes together in a bloodcurdling irony beyond politics and pathology.
The Killing Of Presidents
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They reached the steps that led up toward the yard where the gallows stood, but this rime they passed them by.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Gibcrokes and recons were local and less frequent names, and the folks who in their dialect called the lug-pole a gallows-balke called the pothooks gallows-crooks.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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Sentenced to hang for piracy, William Fly spoke from the gallows to a large crowd, telling captains to pay sailors their wages or take as a warning his murder of a captain.
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The problem with the discipline of the gallows, the lash, and the sword, according to these revolutionaries, was that it was far less effective than individual self-discipline in keeping social order.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Through the 17th century, the Borders were "pacified", which as we all know is actually a process of singling out the most independent warlords and putting them to death as an example to the others (gallows were placed on hilltops, so that the hanging bodies could be see from far and wide).
Jane Smiley: Jane's Bingo! Award for Most Informative Book of 2006
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The planets dangle in a line beside the forest track to the observatory, suspended from wooden gallows and wobbling slightly in the wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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For if there were such a thing as hanging royalty, here was a man to the gallows born.
Times, Sunday Times
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The city's souvenir T-shirt shops are also thriving on gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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You have heard of gallows humour?
Times, Sunday Times
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Acquitting a woman on ground of insanity may have saved her from the gallows, or a lengthy prison term, but it also stripped her crime of meaning.
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It's distanced, almost clinical and that in turn leads to a great deal of gallows humour.
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The fear of physical suffering was not uppermost in his mind, nor even the fear that he would walk unmanfully to the high gallows, but a greater dread that if he died now, here, at Dongola, Ethne would never take back that fourth feather, and his strong hope of the "afterwards" would never come to its fulfilment.
The Four Feathers
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It taught me tolerance and survival skills; the value of good headphones and gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Lying is the first step to the gallows.
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_ At this he started a little and returned, _At the gallows_ I have known
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
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When the hangings became private a portable gallows was used in the North West laneway from 1861 until 1883.
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Mr Galloway says he was forced to hide in his car after the men denounced him as a false prophet and threatened him with ‘the gallows’.
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I like that about football, the gallows humour kicks in.
The Sun
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The mayor of a North Dakota tourist town wants to erect a gallows on his front lawn to bring in more visitors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those whose work constantly expose them to the unrelieved grimness of human suffering and death take refuge in gallows humor.
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The criminal ended up in the gallows.
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If found guilty, he faces the gallows.
Times, Sunday Times
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My parents covered the show trials of the last two—Mindszenty and Rajk—both convicted of faked charges of espionage, the cardinal given a life sentence, Rajk, the foreign minister, sent to the gallows.
Enemies of the People
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Reflect! how certain of destruction is the path you now tread; the gallows and the hulks are the only goals!
Paul Clifford — Volume 06
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I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O! there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses.
Act V. Scene IV. Cymbeline
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When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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Lying is the first step to the gallows.
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There are concerns scaffolding could be used to construct gallows from which protesters would be suspended on motorways to halt traffic.
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A keen historian he also spent considerable time searching for items of historical interest and even managed to locate a gibbet from an old gallows from which a young Irish lad was hung in 1832.
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His evidence at the war trials saved him from the gallows.
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If a man steals or kills somebody, according to newly found ‘blanket’ wisdom of ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ there is no need to punish the guilty and confine him to the jail or send him to the gallows.
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It was thought that mandrakes sprang up beneath gallows, with the root taking on the shape of the person who'd been hanged.
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Stuart talks freely and very colourfully about facing the gallows, his life in jail and the fortunate turn of events that enabled him to transform his life.
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Hey, c'mon; we need a little gallows humor to break the mood around here," he said.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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Tonight he is forced to head into the English countryside to save a man from the gallows.
Times, Sunday Times
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New witnesses have cast doubt on some of the evidence that sent the 19 year old to the gallows.
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_ Deserving the gallows, felonious, vile; as, _a hang-gallise fellow_.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
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It is my observation that thoughtless inconsiderate persons who take advantage of others weakness for their pleasure generally (like Tom Horn), braid their own hangin 'ropes for their own gallows.
PA Rape-Case Witness Killed While Hunting
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For all the gallows humour, I know which one felt like the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the centre of the patch of common land there were a stocks, a gallows and a tall gaily coloured pole from which dangled multicoloured strands.
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KIND gallows of Crieff,42 where his father died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he’ll live to die himsell, if he’s not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.’
Waverley
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Gallows were erected on hills throughout the English border counties, and put busily to work.
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One Sunday night, while all the villagers slept, workers began constructing a gallows that was forty feet high.
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In 1975 the British government ruled that only certain types of crime were punishable by the gallows.
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Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.
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Go follow the blood-stained track of this great Moloch, crested with fiery plume and direful hate, into the courtrooms, the jails, penitentiaries, and gallowses.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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Ultimately he was tried, convicted and swung from a gallows, the last person hanged in Alberta.
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Rudge is hanged, Barnaby is reprieved from the gallows at the last moment, and Chester is killed by Haredale in a duel.
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You have heard of gallows humour?
Times, Sunday Times
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This adapted version of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary contains words like brute, gallows, damn, wrath, and X.
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I like that about football, the gallows humour kicks in.
The Sun
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Reporting from the nearby town of Harrisburg, Ira D. Rosen captured the bizarre combination of altruism and gallows humor the disaster prompted in the community.
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Too many details of inflection were lost to the gallows glare of the snare drum but the waltz had infectious buoyancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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KIND gallows of Crieff, [Footnote: See Note 16.] where his father died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's not shot, or slashed, in a creagh. '
Waverley — Volume 1
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Do allthose gallows quips translate into comedy gold?
Dick Wolf: Laughs & Order? | EW.com
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Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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The good thing about gallows humour is no matter how bad things get you can always find some wag ready to crack a joke.
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He answered, “Hearken to my answer; that I lie not aught: and may the high gallows and all things of grame have me, if I lie one word!”
The Story of the Volsungs
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Only our brand of gallows humor saves us from utter despair.
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He then loosened my gallowses (braces), and buckled them tightly above my hips.
The Story of a Bad Boy
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The young man once saved an Aboriginal fairground attendant from the gallows.
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The solitary confinement cells and gallows are particularly chilling.
The Sun
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The trip from the condemned cell to the gallows was very short and there was no speech to which the condemned man had to listen whilst standing on the trap.
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But even if he saves her from the gallows she will still have a lengthy prison term before her.
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We made the typical jokes about whether we would be there at the same time the next week - gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was never likely to denounce the Downing Street snake-pit and order its inmates to the gallows.
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In doing that, he was helping to build the gallows from which he would be hanged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the poet hath undertaken, for their being kicked three or four times a-week about the stage to the gallows, infamously rogued and rascalled, to try what he can do towards making the charter forfeitable, by some extravagancy and disorder of the people, which the authority of the best governed cities have not been able to prevent, sometimes under far less provocations.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
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Amnesty says the death penalty is not a deterrent to the drug trade as runners, rather than the kingpins, are most at risk of facing the gallows.
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Lying is the first step to the gallows.
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Their rights were shown by the gallows erected at the gates of the town and by the belfry, whose bell called the burgesses to arms when the city was threatened by the enemy.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
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Well, that's going too far - but it is certainly Swiftian satire, black humour or gallows humour.
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When it plays the good guy and saves people from the gallows it is seen as colonial.
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Whether it was the voice and countenance of Mr. Tyson, or the terror of the word gallows, that affected the miscreant, his arm suddenly fell, and he stood as if struck dumb with amazement.
A Visit to the United States in 1841
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I am wondering if a world crime tribunal sends him to the gallows, will this brave heart face the noose barefaced with the Bible in hand and with TV cameras catching his every expression beaming it live into many homes – I am sure some may definitely quip, what a beautiful sight that would be!
What a beautiful sight that would be!
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Daan stairs aw flew withaat stoppin 'to festen mi gallowses or put mi booits on, an as sooin as aw went aght th' lads set up a shaat an th 'cock flew into a chamber winder at t'other side o' th 'yard.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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What jury would be willing to send a man to the gallows on the evidence of a gob of sweat smeared on a piece of metal?
FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
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“Henceforth, my friend,” said he, “moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and above all take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.”
The Alhambra
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He talks freely and very colourfully about facing the gallows, his life in jail and the fortunate turn of events that enabled him to transform his life.
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The solitary confinement cells and gallows are particularly chilling.
The Sun
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It taught me tolerance and survival skills; the value of good headphones and gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The good thing about gallows humour is no matter how bad things get you can always find some wag ready to crack a joke.
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His trial ended in conviction, and he was sentenced to hang, but Boyington heatedly maintained his innocence to the very gallows.
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A gallows was erected in front of the city gates.
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I lay 'em by me while I put him on de altar, I jes made him wrop he arms roun 'a little locus'-tree, an' I fasten he wris'es wid he own gallowses, 'cuz I didn' warn 'was'e dem hick'ries; an' all de time I bindin 'him I tellin' him 'bout he sins.
P'laski's Tunament 1891
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[U3] der engineer Don Jaime, employed in continuing the communication to the gallows battery, and fix hundred on that battery, and ftrengthening the ground of the mortar battery*
The ancient and modern history of Gibraltar. With an accurate journal of the siege of that ...
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I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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The Scots word for braces, straps supporting trousers from the shoulders, is sometimes spelt ‘galluses’ and is a corruption of the term ‘gallows’, the apparatus for capital punishment by hanging.
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On the same basis, skiers should be warned that those plank things on their feet could cause them to slide downhill rather rapidly and hangmen that their gallows were a bit unsafe because of that ruddy great trapdoor.
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From one of the holes for the fishplate bolts there dangled a rotten cord, and on the sand beneath this improvised yet apparently effective gallows lay a human skull and bones, quite white and beautifully polished by the action of sun and wind.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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For if there were such a thing as hanging royalty, here was a man to the gallows born.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen.
The Perfect Gentleman
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The public were waiting to see the hated hangman swing from his own gallows.
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Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.
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Parceque librum non a rendu "is the kind of macaronic French and Latin which schoolboys are accustomed to write under a sketch of the borrower expiating his offences on the gallows.
Lost Leaders
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The Germans call it gallows-humour; the French, 1'humour noir.
The Irish Mind
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Inappropriateness of mood quality (laughing in a sad situation) is not a pathognomonic sign and may reflect normal anxiety (e.g., gallows humor), as well as serious illness.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.
Erema
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Clearly there was a permanent gallows in St. Andrew.
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The solitary confinement cells and gallows are particularly chilling.
The Sun
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English Heritage said Gallows Tamkin is suffering from structural settlement and English Heritage has advised the council on the appropriate steps to take.
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On the same basis, skiers should be warned that those plank things on their feet could cause them to slide downhill rather rapidly and hangmen that their gallows were a bit unsafe because of that ruddy great trapdoor.
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In doing that, he was helping to build the gallows from which he would be hanged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn Gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so.
Past and Present
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Lying is the first step to the gallows.
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Scores of gallows were erected in the city and public hangings became common place.
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Mully's revised sentence was to stand on the gallows for an hour with a rope around his neck, receive 39 lashes, have an unoffending ear cut off and, much less painfully, be banished from Connecticut.
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Gallows Point is called, by which a long stretch would be saved, and we were cracking on cheerily, my mind full of my recent promotion, when, scur, scur, scur, we stuck fast on the bank.
Tom Cringle's Log
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They died in agonies on the gallows, where they were sometimes left for the birds to peck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hey, c'mon; we need a little gallows humor to break the mood around here," he said.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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you'll rue it, rue it, rue it!" and he went into a coil of lawyer's threats against the invaders, talking of brander-irons and gallows, hame-sucken and housebreaking.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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After that, the SS officers set up gallows and had hangings during each roll call.
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If he has a measure of our sympathy in his feud with the younger Doria, that is only because Gianettino is portrayed as a vulgar brute deserving of nothing but the gallows.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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Hey, c'mon; we need a little gallows humor to break the mood around here," he said.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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Each duchy was to have only one gallows, and that was to be under the control of the ruling house.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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They died in agonies on the gallows, where they were sometimes left for the birds to peck.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mayor of a North Dakota tourist town wants to erect a gallows on his front lawn to bring in more visitors.
Times, Sunday Times
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A convent (with flash webpage) was founded close by the site of the old gallows, and a small group of snooker-playing nuns still pray for the souls of the dead.
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On his final night out, gallows humour reigned supreme.
The Sun
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Does she remember that you once went back to 1795 to save her from the gallows?
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The gallows with its black outline, like a half-completed cross, sank back behind the hedge and was lost to view.
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For this ‘crime,’ which no one understands but Selma and the audience, American justice will sentence her to the gallows.
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Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn - gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.
Past and Present
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I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!
Cymbeline
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How about Deacon Brodie's, a pub that honours a man who was hanged on a gallows of his own design?
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He was sentenced to hang but cheated the gallows.
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That sounds heavy: in fact, this play abounds in mischievous gallows humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tonight he is forced to head into the English countryside to save a man from the gallows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too many details of inflection were lost to the gallows glare of the snare drum but the waltz had infectious buoyancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was to be several more weeks before the rest of the 6th "Foot Division" — with a touch of bitter gallows humor, the men had so dubbed their panzer division on account of its total lack of tanks — received travel orders to move west.
Panzer Aces
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The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.
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_crashing-chetes_ = the teeth; _nubbing-chete_ = the gallows, and so forth.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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Once placed on the drop of the gallows Baird addressed the silent crowd.
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Alongside the gallows is a box of miniature nooses tagged with inmate ID numbers; these were the personal collection of an employee who participated in 150 executions between 1924 and 1954.
Next, The Death Penalty Wing
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On execution days at Northampton, numbers of sufferers used to congregate round the gallows, in order to receive the "dead-stroke," as it is termed.
Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850
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But, even if the play is based on too many draconian données, it has its own chill gallows humour.
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The serial singleteer will boast many skills: mixology, gallows humour and sniffing out a loon at ten paces among them.
Times, Sunday Times
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It grew from the humane desire of judges to alleviate the severity of the law in an age when many crimes were still classified as felonies, for which the punishment was death by the gallows.
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He found it remarkable that such a statement could be a credible account of his words, and began moving heaven and earth to save him from the gallows.
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Was this a massive bribe to save Will from a charge of infanticide and possibly the gallows?
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Either way, his fate was sealed: he was executed a few weeks later, his body left hanging from the gallows as a grim warning of the fate of traitors.
