A gibbet was set up in the middle of the historical town. From LearnThat.org.
The gibbet is a balance with a man at one end and the whole world at the other. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Fate. Book VII] Reference
The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall which was used as the servants 'hall, and which the nuns called the buttery. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
The nation's gibbet is their proper destiny. From Wordnik.com. [The Punishment of Treason] Reference
A similar phrase is used in place of "gibbet" on Good Friday. From Wordnik.com. [National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe -] Reference
The whipping-post and then the gibbet will be their certain fate. ". From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
I'd say at least 99\% of the congregation will get what "gibbet" means. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall which was used as the servants’ hall, and which the nuns called the buttery. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
During a press briefing later in the day, Serratelli was asked if deletion of the term "gibbet" ought to be read as a choice in favor of a text that's more understandable. From Wordnik.com. [National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe -] Reference
"gibbet," forcing the vote to a mail ballot of those prelates absent, at which point the Florida prelate, the translation body ICEL each took their case to the remaining voters. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers in the Loggia] Reference
But it is no gibbet now allures the morbid multitude. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
Fire and gibbet had been mercilessly employed to destroy it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The gibbet and the fearful "estrapade" had not deterred them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
North Road, still marks the spot where the original gibbet stood. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
What would this collop dropt from the gibbet, this crows-meat, be at?. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
So noted an outlaw merits no common gibbet; a new one is most fitting. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
The counsel pleased him, and he commanded a high gibbet to be prepared. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
On the following morning the condemned quitted his prison for the gibbet. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
When one is hanged on a gibbet, he must be taken down the same day and buried. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
At the end of the 15th century, the formidable gibbet was already very much dilapidated. From Wordnik.com. [Acting the Swan to Overcome the Duck] Reference
And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and the going down of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 06: Josue The Challoner Revision] Reference
The profession of a gentleman in a round wig is determined by a gibbet chalked upon his coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
The old woman was so crazed with her secret that she would have spoken in the shadow of the gibbet. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Esther's petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the gibbet he had prepared for Mardochai. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
Esther is graciously received: she inviteth the king and Aman to dinner, Aman prepareth a gibbet for Mardochai. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Passing round a point, going out of the harbour, I observed a gibbet with part of a human skeleton hanging on it. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
If we cut our own Throats, in our own wise Judgments, would you have them make a Law to gibbet us for it after we are dead?. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
He had his recreation in such a spectacle, as men can find their pleasure in the death-struggle of a malefacter on the gibbet. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
I have given Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
Upon this the judge ordered a gibbet to be erected, and sent criers all over the city to proclaim that they were about to hang a. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
Northampton, Bedford, were chiefly traversed; and some two or three hundred persons appear to have been sent to the gibbet or the stake by his active exertions. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
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