tumbril

How To Use tumbril In A Sentence

• Well, the "tumbril," as we called it, arrived each day for nearly a week, and we drove off gaily to the appointed spot and saturated ourselves in the characteristics of the land we were shortly to attack. Bullets & Billets
• Anyway, as the tumbril bearing Grant came into view, and we got shots of toothless crones in the crowd getting on with their knitting – or their modern equivalent, West Ham fans looking glum – the Hammers' latest signing, Wayne Bridge, was demonstrating that even a magic Chris Waddle cheque book might not provide an automatic solution to the club's troubles. Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
• Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner Darren Bent won't chicken out when Aston Villa are in peri-peril | Martin Kelner
• At the farm sales, it was impossible not to rescue machines with names like the Nicolson swathe-turner and such things as enormous hay rakes originally designed to be drawn by horses, wooden bullock carts, or the kind of miniature tipping trailer known as a tumbril, one of the most useful things any farm could possess. Wildwood
• Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages.
• They make great speeches as they ride the tumbril to the guillotine. Astrology and Income Tax Evasion
• But ABC's "The Whole Truth," which, by all accounts, is next in line to be tossed on the tumbril, added nearly 860,000 viewers. "Hawaii Five-O" most DVR'd new show, early stats show
• Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps.
• Walking to the turbolift, and riding it up to the bridge, he almost felt that he was riding the tumbril toward the guillotine. Star Trek The Next Generation®
• Connected to the terrible lucidity of the condemned man in the tumbril is the unearthly lucidity of the pre-epileptic aura, bliss without time or space, eternity in an instant.