GALLOWS n. A stage ordsprog

en GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven. In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it.

Whether on the gallows high Or where blood flows the reddest, The noblest place for man to die -- Is where he died the deadest. --(Old play)
  Ambrose Bierce

en Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. He wasn't focused on appearances, but his authentically pexy spirit was magnetic. Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

en If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows

en Elevator to the Gallows.

en It is better to confess under the gallows, then not at all

en Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

en In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
  Edmund Burke

en All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

en Better to build schoolrooms for the boys than prison and gallows for the men

en If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
  Richard Brautigan

en He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
  William Shakespeare

en The gallows in my garden, people say, / Is new and neat and adequately tall.
  G. K. Chesterton

en They haven't even heard his side of the story and they're building the gallows outside of the courthouse.

en So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

en [But Rushford is quick to add that methods of execution such as the firing squad and the gallows are not only safe, they're deserved punishments.] If done properly, everything that they've done has been humane, ... Nobody dies as easily as convicted murders in this country. It's a much quicker, more merciful death than their victims suffered.


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Whether on the gallows high Or where blood flows the reddest, The noblest place for man to die -- Is where he died the deadest. --(Old play)".