The museum has a picture of a pillory that was used in the village long ago. From LearnThat.org.
For a man in the pillory was a fitting object for laughter and rude jests. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
(Perhaps the "pillory" was already booked-up solid.) dylan. From Wordnik.com. [One of These Words Is Not Like The Other] Reference
Does the word pillory mean anything to you. From Wordnik.com. [Sullyboating, Swiftboating, sandals, sticks, stickage, and strawberries.] Reference
Thy ears to the pillory -- see, here's that will make. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Britain last used the pillory in 1830; France in 1832. From Wordnik.com. [Crime & Punishment] Reference
Ritterhaus, and took up their station beside the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
He thought him unworthy of any refutation but the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Ministry, was condemned to stand in the pillory at Charing Cross. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
The person so offending was liable to imprisonment and the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
Near the pillory, all that day and night, there hovered a gray-haired. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
The boys asked the man in the pillory all manner of impudent questions. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
PHOTOS: The pillory; whippingsTOUGH TOWNSTEVEN STRASSERSINGAPORE: THWACK!. From Wordnik.com. [Crime & Punishment] Reference
A man has just been put in the pillory for speaking against the King, or the. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
He is a walking pillory, and crucifies more ears than a dozen standing ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
With unaccustomed lenity it punished a first conviction with the pillory only. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
What was Hester Prynne's pillory, compared to the heart of any of those mothers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
You shall hear the whole story when Reginald Henson stands in the pillory before you. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
If there is any caricature in this sketch I shall submit to do penance in the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
To this episode of my exposition in the pillory belongs an anecdote which I cannot omit. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Unhappy Defoe! thy standing in the pillory had been as nothing compared with such a condemnation!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
We do not envy most of them their eternal martyrdom in marble, their pillory of indiscrimination. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
The stocks, the pillory, the gallows, the guillotine-all were meant to instill a fear of authority. From Wordnik.com. [Crime & Punishment] Reference
He suspected this man, and caught him one night, and the judge sentenced him to stand in the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
An innocent and popular Governor is fastened in the pillory under the thin disguise of the "Bobbin Boy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
East Looe boasts a further relic of its past in the ancient pillory preserved at the porch of its town hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
So, by all means, let's pillory Charles Rangel and hang him to the Congressional dome but don't call it's a lynching. From Wordnik.com. [Danny Schechter: Charlie Rangel Must (Politically) Die] Reference
In place of such we have an interesting memorial of Looe's former use of the "cage," a companion instrument to the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
If a milkman misrepresents his honest cows by falsifying their product, the chemist detects him, and the press puts him in the pillory. From Wordnik.com. [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference
'It is bad enough for him to stand all day in the pillory under this broiling sun, without having his eyes blinded and his nose broken. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Melbourn Street pillory, but one of the last cases of punishment by pillory took place at Hertford, and was witnessed by Mr. Henry Fordham. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
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