Unhanged

“Come hither, ye unhanged whelp,” said Jekyl, “and tell me if you know the old gentleman that passed down the walk just now — yonder he is, still in sight.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Whereas, by a little charity and mutual forbearance, things are made to go on pleasantly enough: we may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged — but do we wish to hang him therefore? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even the sight of a gibbet, if it assured him that one robber was safely disposed of by justice, never failed to remind him how many remained still unhanged. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old: God help the while! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Seleukos, who had kept the doctor unhanged lest the King should change his mind, dared not ask, and hanged him. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

He averred that the town was much mistaken in imagining that the king's proclamation had effectually crushed their fraternity, into which opinion they perhaps might be drawn by seeing so many of them perish in so short a time; which, he said, did not lessen their society, but would, notwithstanding that, put all that remained of them upon bolder exploits than ever, to show that they were yet unhanged. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)

"_May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring, meet here again_." ❋ Various (N/A)

"May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Mr. Foote offers no satisfactory explanation of his own course in taking part in the Rebel government, which was founded upon a principle always abhorrent to him, and opposed to all his ideas of good faith and good policy; but he gives us to understand that he was for a long time about the only honest man unhanged in the Confederacy. ❋ Various (N/A)

Beware of the landlord -- he's a colonel of the rebels, and a bloodier-minded villain is not unhanged. ❋ Various (N/A)

QUOTATION: There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. ❋ Unknown (1919)

"These are fine words to come from the dirtiest knave unhanged in England." ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

But for all that, I hang to a somewhat battered optimism, and one of the chief causes of that optimism is the fact that Huneker, after all these years, yet remains unhanged. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Ah, go thy ways, tall Jack; there live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Shall this hangman hang for hanging as in duty bound, whiles other hangmen, unhanged, hang still? ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

"Now a plague on thy kingdom and thee for an unhanged, thieving rogue --" ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

JOCELYN: Yet duty it is -- wherefore, an there be any justice in the good greenwood, this hangman unhanged must go. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

Moreover, if ye hang this hangman, unhanged hangmen shall hang still, and since ye may not all hangmen hang, wherefore should this hangman hang? ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

"The world seems full of unhanged villains!" said I, through shut teeth. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)