"Gallows-tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spot where the two prisoners lie; and taking hold, raise them to an erect attitude. Then, half carrying, half dragging, bring them under the branches designed for their gallows-tree. ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid
... girl, that Egil said, When to the gallows he was led, That the king's thralls far more than he Deserved to hang on gallows-tree. It might be so; but, death in view, A man should to himself be true,— End a stout life by death as stout, Showing no fear; or care, ...
— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson
... monster. Given the slow passing of uneventful time, and it becomes hard and harder to consider him as a social menace. When the man is of the Jim Galloway type, his plans large, his patience long, he may even pass out from the shadow of a gallows-tree and return to occupy his former place in the quiet community life, while his neighbors are prone ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... you are to-night! were you in yon gloomy and thick edifice (pointing to the prison which frowned in perspective before them), with irons on your hands, and with the prospect through its narrow-grated loopholes, of the gallows-tree, at every turning before you, it might be matter of wonder even to yourself that you should have needed any advice by which to avoid ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms |
