We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it.
He was probably put on a crude wooden gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position.
During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfau? On.
We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet.
Truth to tell, he was afraid of being hanged by the populace for beginning too late, hanged by the Cardinal for being too soon; on either side he beheld an abyss-that is to say, a gibbet.
On the other side stood a gibbet, a decaying corpse dangling from it by a worn hemp rope.
That gibbet is always good to look at.
When you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace.
To execute by hanging on a gibbet.
