Hagbard was condemned, and a gallows-tree planted to receive him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

And his limbs are black'ning in the blast, nail'd to the gallows-tree!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Moreover, she wanted no gallows-tree intermingled with the annals of her family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

When cut down, the body was interred, like that of a felon, at the foot of the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Where high upon a gallows-tree a yelling wretch is seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sack of Baltimore] Reference

They will seek him everywhere but under the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Wrath] Reference

I have passed the very spot where the gallows-tree is going up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood] Reference

"Personally, I could eat under any tree -- under a gallows-tree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Mice] Reference

He is found guilty and sentenced to be hung upon the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Coward and rebel as you are, the gallows-tree is far too good for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Wrath] Reference

To fate-doomed Sinner born and bred for dangling from the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

"Take the rascal down and bind him fast to the gallows-tree against our return.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood] Reference

The obelisk of stone, with its long record, occupying the place where stood the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure] Reference

Hanover that had harried their country and hanged their relatives on the murderous gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America] Reference

Then, half carrying, half dragging, bring them under the branches designed for their gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Ranche] Reference

I sat on the gallows-tree, all alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Man] Reference

To the fatal gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects] Reference

Ah! it is the gallows-tree!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference

Her mother at the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

And on the gloomy gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference

What meaneth that gallows-tree?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

Her mother on the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

Yon Oak will be the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

On gallows-tree or bloody plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848] Reference

And there a mirrored gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference

To save him from the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference

‘The gallows-tree to hang him on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruel Brother] Reference

Have they cut down the gallows-tree?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

‘The gallows-tree to hang him on.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference

When he hung on the awful gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference

'Better for me a friendly gallows-tree!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference

On the gallows-tree for the sins of man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems] Reference

Fixed in this mound Alcæus 'gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Rank scurvy knaves, ripe fruit for gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyndham Towers] Reference

Beneath the gallows-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference