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Перевод: gibbet
[существительное] виселица ; повешение; укосина ; стрела крана; [глагол] вешать; казнить; выставлять на позор; выставлять на посмешище
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- He decided to write home asking his mother how everything was back at Gibbet Hall and if she could come to visit him, or even better take him away.
- Endill looked back at Gibbet Hall.
- Thinking of Gibbet Hall he began to feel sad and lonely.
- The house was called Gibbet Hall; not because this was the name the Swift family had chosen but because a long time ago enemy prisoners had been tied to the tree outside the front gate and threatened with hanging.
- That was a truth which John Walford's gibbet continued to proclaim a short distance from the Stowey road, and which Coleridge's own opium-addicted future would bitterly confirm.
- The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor.
- COMBE GIBBET.
- Gibbet Hall was the size of a matchbox compared to this.
- Combe Gibbet (not the original) can be seen today, elevated above the sparse countryside.
- The only thing to do now was finish the plane and get back to Gibbet Hall as quickly as he could.
- It was turning out to be a day unlike any other he had spent at Gibbet Hall.
- The shadow of the gibbet is a constant presence in The Beggar's Opera.
- When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall.
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