To execute by hanging on a gibbet.
That gibbet is always good to look at.
We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it.
We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet.
On the other side stood a gibbet, a decaying corpse dangling from it by a worn hemp rope.
He was probably put on a crude wooden gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position.
When you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace.
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.
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.
