I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses! ❋ Unknown (2004)
She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O! there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen. ❋ Ralph Bergengren (1909)
Go follow the blood-stained track of this great Moloch, crested with fiery plume and direful hate, into the courtrooms, the jails, penitentiaries, and gallowses. ❋ Unknown (1898)
I lay 'em by me while I put him on de altar, I jes made him wrop he arms roun 'a little locus'-tree, an' I fasten he wris'es wid he own gallowses, 'cuz I didn' warn 'was'e dem hick'ries; an' all de time I bindin 'him I tellin' him 'bout he sins. ❋ Thomas Nelson Page (1887)
Daan stairs aw flew withaat stoppin 'to festen mi gallowses or put mi booits on, an as sooin as aw went aght th' lads set up a shaat an th 'cock flew into a chamber winder at t'other side o' th 'yard. ❋ John Hartley (1877)
He then loosened my gallowses (braces), and buckled them tightly above my hips. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)
The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses." ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
In the country, trees, loaded with flowers and breathing perfumes, served as gallowses, as if to put in broad contrast the goodness of God and the vileness of man. ❋ Unknown (1863)
Of what use so many victims, so many tortures, so many gallowses, so many drownings, so many raging hounds? ❋ Unknown (1863)
The plural of gallows is gallowses; but bellows is both a singular and plural noun ❋ Unknown (1861)
But think wut a help they'd ha 'ben on their gallowses! ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
'O _there_ were desolation of gallowses and gaolers. ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)
When she was gone he began to ponder over several subjects connected with the principal characters of this narrative until he became drowsy, during which period halters, gibbets, gallowses, hangmen, and judges jumbled each other alternately through his fancy, until he fell fast asleep in his easy-chair. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
Originally an Irish dray-man, he rose, by his command of bad language, to almost dictatorial authority in the State; throned it there for six months or so, his mouth full of oaths, gallowses, and conflagrations; was first snuffed out last winter by Mr. Coleman, backed by his San Francisco Vigilantes and three gatling guns; completed his own ruin by throwing in his lot with the grotesque Green-backer party; and had at last to be rescued by his old enemies, the police, out of the hands of his rebellious followers. ❋ Unknown (1892)
