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• Men spoke to him of the mild beams of Christian charity, and where they pointed he saw only the yellow glare of the stake; they talked of the gentle solace of Christian faith, and he heard only the shrieks of the thousands and tens of thousands whom faithful Christian persecutors had racked, strangled, gibbeted, burned, broken on the wheel. Voltaire
• He was tried in a kangaroo court and hanged, his corpse left to rot on the gibbet for four years.
• Thus she made as much leeway as headway, could get along very nearly as fast with the wind ahead as when it was apoop, and was particularly great in a calm; in consequence of which singular advantages she made out to accomplish her voyage in a very few months, and came to anchor at the mouth of the Hudson a little to the east of Gibbet Island. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
• The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall which was used as the servants 'hall, and which the nuns called the buttery. Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette
• Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't. But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet.
• She looked at me then and cried, ‘My, you really are a flibbertigibbet!’
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• I can have anyone who doubts my word hauled up again, and this time we'll tie the rope to the crosspiece of the gibbet. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
• I., nor that in a remote branch of my family there exists a claimant to an earldom, nor that an uncle of mine used to own a dog that was descended from the dog that was in the Ark; and at the same time I was never able to persuade myself to call a gibbet by its right name when accounting for other ancestors of mine, but always spoke of it as the Christian Science
• I then introduced them to the gibbet on Heavy-tree Heath; and from that, with a circumbendibus, I fairly lodged them in the horse-pond at the bottom of the garden. Act the Fifth