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Перевод: gallows
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Тезаурус:
- Now, as never before, I need to concentrate all my will and energy, all my talent and intellect, upon words on a page more important even than some petition for clemency composed under the shadow of the gallows.
- One member of the 4-Skins, protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day, told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos, slapstick and deadpan gallows humour.
- Reg Seekings felt that they were being treated like condemned men going to the gallows, but he did manage to buy a tin of Craven A cigarettes.
- The Portuguese had built a public gallows adjacent to the shrine's tank, which itself survived until 1805.
- They took it to the Gallows Hill, Cumnock, intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district.
- This was often to be a disturbing element in many of the subsequent trials when children's uncorroborated evidence sent many to prison and to the gallows.
- After a sumptuous repast he asked the Mayor whether the gallows was prepared.
- When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows,
- Rumi wrote, "The gallows (on which we are killed) is the buraq on which we ride to heaven."
- Gallows were specially erected, and used only once.
- "And as the poor rebel goes to the gallows," Myles commented bitterly, "the Church looks idly on."
- The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital, with Pip tending him to the last.
- Corpses hung from gallows, heads were spiked on railings.
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