Hath this gallows-bird aught remaining wherewith to buy slave-girls? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Quoth Zurayk, who returned at the sound, Thy perfidy hath come to light, O gallows-bird! ❋ Unknown (2006)
What's this to you, you gallows-bird, you crow's meat? ❋ Unknown (2007)
“He is a gallows-bird that will get on in the world,” said Etienne, careless whether the wily schemer overheard the remark or not, as he shut the door of the box. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“What a gallows-bird!” said Pere Canquoelle to his neighbor Monsieur Pillerault. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Why, thou gallows-bird — thou jail-rat — thou friend of the hangman and his customers!” replied Foster, “hast thou the assurance to expect countenance from any one whose neck is beyond the compass of a Tyburn tippet?” ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Dick Malone, my gallows-bird, I arrest you in the name of the law." ❋ Prentiss Ingraham (N/A)
"You're to sell, you mean, you gallows-bird," returned Jasper. ❋ Charles Garvice (N/A)
"It's true," said he, "I am gallows-bird enough myself, but then I'm open, and no man can say I'm a-fear'd; but Johnny, Johnny, who" ---- ❋ Various (N/A)
At last he began to abuse Johnny for being, as he said, such a sneaking, cowardly fellow -- such a treacherous, false-hearted gallows-bird. ❋ Various (N/A)
Maestro Agostino retorted: You gallows-bird! dont you know that I know it for most certain? ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
Maestro Agostino retorted: You gallows-bird! dont you know that I know it for most certain? ❋ Unknown (1909)
Then said he to the Slave: Take away yonder gallows-bird and lay him in a closet. ❋ Unknown (1909)
"I cannot upon my honour vex the Prince again because a gallows-bird has prated in his cups." ❋ Unknown (1906)
For this was Dominus Gillian, whose name had been first a byword and then a terror, and even now was a power to conjure with; Dom Gillian, renegade and hero, gallows-bird and world-builder, but ever and in all things a man, as all other men will bear witness. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
And now to the gallows-bird who was still corporal of our troop: it was not long before Raffles was to have his wish and the traitor's wicket. ❋ Unknown (1901)
One day Georges picked a quarrel with the biggest, and they fought, and as Georges got the better of it, the other, to revenge himself, called him the son of a gallows-bird. ❋ Eug��ne Brieux (1895)
"Down here in [Macomb], Alabama, we knowed that nigra-boy [Tom Robinson] was a gallows bird 'fore the trial even got started."
(Two lawyers at lunch)
Lawyer #1: Let's see, we have Alan Lee Davis for kidnapping and murder first degree, [LaShawndra] Simmons for distributing crack rock, and BraNell Wallace for grand theft of some rims, apparently.
Lawyer #2: We shouldn't take Davis. Let's be honest--he's a gallows bird. Folks hate him and the DA has an open-and-shut case. ❋ Carl Willis (2004)
