gibbet

How To Use gibbet In A Sentence

• 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. Rob Roy
• For all the seniors out there that find Elizabeth Taylor still relevant, a flibbertigibbet is basically a chatty gossip. Elizabeth Taylor urges primary voters to back Clinton
• I will not offer any criticism of the sentiments or idiom of this stanza, for what irked me was the word ‘flippertigibbets,’ which seemed an unnecessary orthographical variation intended only to catch attention it did not deserve.
• It was the custom then to hang a convicted man on the spot where he committed the crime, and then display the corpse on a gibbet beside the public highway.
• “The gibbet is a balance with a man at one end and the whole world at the other. IV. Fate. Book VII
• Hence a whole chapter of sights and customs striking to the mind, from the pyramids of Egypt to the gibbets and dule trees of mediaeval Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
• Bound hand and foot, under an escort of thirty men, the next morning we set off to cross the deserts and prairies of Senora, to gain the Mexican capital, where we well knew that a gibbet was to be our fate. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
• She is a young flibbertigibbet who inherits her sister's three children after a car accident.
• Back in the 1960s, when I was but a young flibbertigibbet, there was consternation when The Sunday Times introduced the concept of including a magazine with the newspaper.
• As the three heretics walked to the gibbet, some young boys plunged sharp sticks through the cracks in the walkway.