Ursula unfortunately met the tumbril of victims among whom was. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner. From Wordnik.com. [Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner] Reference
He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
They make great speeches as they ride the tumbril to the guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [Astrology and Income Tax Evasion] Reference
"Ask not for whom the tumbril calls," I remarked, turning to Raymond. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Then came the tumbril, a high four-wheeled cart drawn by two plow horses. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
He had the look of a man in a tumbril on his way to the guillotine, slack with despair. From Wordnik.com. [Northlight]
Drusilla endured the measures with all the delight of a French aristocrat out for a ride in a tumbril. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Robespierre fell, and Simon, the Barbarous, accompanied him in the same tumbril to the guillotine, and shared his fate. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
But ABC's "The Whole Truth," which, by all accounts, is next in line to be tossed on the tumbril, added nearly 860,000 viewers. From Wordnik.com. ["Hawaii Five-O" most DVR'd new show, early stats show] Reference
Take, for instance, the following piece of purple prose, full of sentences just begging to hop into the tumbril and ride to the guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The screen goes wavy] Reference
The first tumbril exploded, blowing the driver to fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
The bodies of the victims were placed in a tumbril lighted by torches. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
It was like riding in a tumbril driven at top-speed over the Giant's Causeway. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
But the sound grows, as though some great tumbril were rolling towards the cell. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
When they reached the Place de Greve, the tumbril stopped at a little distance from the scaffold. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
With a tumbril rumble in their ears, the children dancing ahead, they started for Palace Gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
But, slowly as it moved, the tumbril steadily advanced, and at last reached the place of Notre-Dame. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
The archers drove back the crowding people, and the tumbril went up to the steps, and there stopped. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
If it is the guillotine I shall go gaily, like one of your ancestors in those tumbril days of France. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
There is something very typical of an English revolution in having the tumbril without the guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of England] Reference
At five o'clock that same afternoon he stepped from the tumbril under the gaunt shadow of the guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
But he sent her to the scaffold; and on November 9, 1793, the tumbril came to convey her to the guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Hector all huddled up in a rickety tumbril, being dragged through the streets of Paris on the road to death. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
They prepare the last epigram in the tumbril; they drown themselves with enthusiasm about the alliance with Russia. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
Gamelin found difficulty in mounting the tumbril; he had lost a great deal of blood and his wounds pained him cruelly. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
"Look, Citoyenne," he said, and he pointed out the first tumbril, which was coming round the corner of the Rue St. Honore. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
When the tumbril exploded, the Prussians could be heard to cheer, and they turned to and fired every iron spout they owned. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
Captain Peel, who was standing by, said, "Thank you, Mr Vaughan; perhaps you will now be so good as to blow up the tumbril.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign] Reference
Clothed in but a single garment, he was made to mount a tumbril, and was carried to the doors of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
The man who touched the back of the tumbril is Desgrais, who arrested me at Liege, and treated me so badly all along the road. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
To the Place de la Revolution rolls the tumbril of the King of Terror, -- St. Just, Dumas, Couthon, his companions to the grave!. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
'Twas his lot to be close to the brave but imprudent Braddock when he fell, and assisted to place him in a tumbril, or little cart. From Wordnik.com. [From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services] Reference
The horse tugged at the tumbril, and Sir Risdon went thoughtfully along the field, toward a clump of trees lying in a hollow, while Master. From Wordnik.com. [Cutlass and Cudgel] Reference
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