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They dared to act, where others were condemned to suffer in silence or run the risk of the scaffold.
Other scaffolds of at least four or five stories, and painted almost all alike, formed the other three sides.
Every experiment has its origin in hypothesis; without the scaffolding of hypothesis, the house of science could never arise.
It would be justice, and yet it would grind her heart to know of his dying on the scaffold.
Many a man of splendid ability and earnestness never shakes off his intellectual scaffolding in the upward building.
Reining up his foaming horse at the foot of the scaffold, he extended a paper to the chief of police.
He felt like one granted a day's respite as he stands on the scaffold with the rope round his neck.
Then he, too, stood on the scaffolding among the other prisoners, who never ceased singing their death song.
Then I started back, for outside was the scaffold built level with the floor, and rush-covered like it!
The hall is to be furnished with scaffolds to sit on, for Ladies to behold the sports, on each side.
And it is said that there is not one link wanting in the chain that binds me to the scaffold.
Now the cart moved a little nearer to the scaffold, and William was raised up to be ready for execution.
The blind at the lick was a scaffold built up in a tree twenty or thirty feet from the ground.
Charles the Wicked rose, and approached the window that opened upon the square where the scaffold was erected.
A scaffolding might be raised to the summit of the cliff; or a tunnel might be pierced through its depth.
All the men in the country went to work cutting down the forest and putting up the scaffold.
To win him she had steeped her hands in human blood and risked the dangers of the scaffold.
In still another, several stood on a scaffold, plastering a house, while three others were at work constructing a door.
It cannot be too often repeated that the true guide of mankind is the moral scaffolding erected by his ancestors.
Helen who performed the same office for Lady Jane, and who attended that unfortunate princess on the scaffold.
Rover, always presuming that she was guilty, had simply condemned her lover to a death on the scaffold.
My secret society work was done, and yet I lingered there, at the very steps of the scaffold.
Then they set up a scaffold on four posts, wrapped the body in a robe, and placed it on top.
"Sure, and you can't miss it, for carpenters are repairing the front, which is all covered with scaffolding."
And as he came down I saw him holding a knife and trying to cut his name on the scaffolding.
The king scratched his head, the guards were ready to seize him; the scaffold was waiting for him.
We had to build a scaffold around the tree, up even with the top of the knot to stand upon.
He gripped Prosper by the head, thrusting one thumb into his eye, and pushing him backward on the scaffolding.
"There is a man," said I, when I saw him, "who will sit upon a throne or kneel upon a scaffold."
Should the body by any means fall to the ground, it is never touched or replaced on the scaffold.
Then from the scaffold the ladder is built and, if the tower roof is very high, ladder upon ladder.
Other accounts state that it was painted by Guido from memory after he had seen her on the scaffold.
I used to think disgrace, and death on the scaffold, the most frightful prospect that a man can contemplate.
In one word, let us mark out the place for these traitors, and let that place be the scaffold.
When the scaffolding was at last removed, the artist thought for a time he had done his last work.
Many a man and woman have gone to the scaffold with hearts less heavy and more hopeful than theirs.
In the solitude of a prison cell and under the shadow of the scaffold she told her own story.
Some scaffolding was torn down and a couple of timbers badly sprung, but the total damage was really slight.
The prisoner promptly ascended the scaffold, the sentence was read, and prayer was offered by the chaplain.
Of course, Tess saw that she was to stand quite securely upon the very top step of the scaffolding.
The uproar ceased and the crowd in intense expectation looked toward the scaffold for the new performer to appear.
Fate seemed to be leading her towards that catastrophe as a person condemned to death is pushed on to the scaffold.
He went up on to the scaffold of blood and sorrow where his friend, Heinrich, had taken his farewell.
"Do some stupid thing, then they will build a scaffold in the new market, and you will be hanged."
These unwelcome children fill the jails and prisons, the asylums and hospitals, and they crowd the scaffolds.
The poor old man, more dead than alive, was conducted upon the scaffold and placed beneath the fatal ax.
I conversed with him, I prayed with him in prison, kissed him, and bade him farewell on the scaffold!
Up on the great scaffolding hands had seized the wrists of the pendant man and lifted him to safety.
Gradually as day dawned the scene became more animated, and battalions of police marched down and surrounded the scaffold.
The outer has been called the scaffolding, by means of which the inner and more solid covering is constructed.
I take no pride in having followed his advice save in so far as it saved the boy from the scaffold.
We were just congratulating her on the subject when she was sent for again, and led to the scaffold.
Sitting in a circle, they plant their sticks in the ground before them, and then dance around the scaffolds.
"It seems to me that it would be quite fitting to end my career upon the scaffold, a sacrifice to liberty."
A few minutes before twelve o'clock she was led forth by the Lieutenant of the Tower to the scaffold.
Every year added its tale to the long list of victims who had met their end upon the scaffold.
It is rather improbable that structures retained so definitely should be mere scaffolding left over from a previous stage of usefulness.
Perhaps they may have courage enough to die as soldiers, fighting openly, rather than come to an end on the scaffold.
He looked across at the opposite houses to see that they were in scaffolding and that they were plastered with bills.
Even a dream must have its scaffolding,' he added, feeling their shudder and leading it towards fun and beauty.
Proud and calm, he thus marched to the scaffold; the executioner wept on placing the rope round his neck.
He raised a flanker behind the stables, and erected scaffolds inside the castle for the garrison to fight from.
Three days from the time of signing the bill, arrangements were made for conducting the prisoner to the scaffold.
The lords and ladies were accommodated on scaffolds round the walls, and the lesser personages in galleries above them.
I would ascend the steps of the scaffold, I would smile and humbly beg permission to say a word.
When he beheld the officer enter with the guard, he thought it was to conduct him to the scaffold.
To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment in failing to secure the object of your affection.
He moved toward the edge of his narrow scaffolding, endeavored to stretch forth his arms, and blessed her again aloud.
Gabriel and eight other men crept inside the scaffolding, raising the cloth with which its sides were covered.
Peter is brought into the space between the scaffolds, and Mary and some others make a long voyage in it.
There were many dogs walking or lying around loose, while others were tied to the posts that supported the scaffolds.
They were brought upon the scaffold, about half an hour after seven, and turned off about a quarter past eight.
On a bright day like this can your pupils climb the scaffolding on that dome at will without being stopped?
On the inside of the houses the inmates had built on boxes a scaffold on which they placed the furniture.
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
When arrived at the scaffold, he gazed around him, and a sort of shiver of impatience ran through the crowd.
Her mother, her grandmother, and her sister had, with many friends and relatives, been led to the scaffold.
I mourned the friends who had died on the scaffold; but I was to see those again who still lived.
The nobles will be mad, and I already begin to shudder at the idea of the jail and the scaffold.
Our keepers gave us a good room, and an excellent breakfast was ready for us in a house contiguous to the scaffold.
I am walking along the streets, and in doing so pass a scaffolding where some new buildings are being erected.
And dare not trust to a correspondence the utterance of those sympathies which have brought so many to the scaffold!
They want to draw upon my head the fury of the Jacobins, and have me packed off to the scaffold.
Scaffolds were erected in the rear of the works and almost every Friday there were numerous executions along the lines.
She had a feeling as if they had all gathered together in order to accompany a criminal to the scaffold.
With this material I covered a portion of the scaffold, making quite a good shelter between myself and the sky.
They supply us, as it were, with scaffolding, which the mind can make use of in building up its conceptions.
Everything being thus arranged, the barons rode out from the city towards the scaffold, accompanied by Don Alonzo.
The morning on which he was led to the scaffold, he was first conducted to the cell of Anne Bonny.
Waiting to hear no more, Joe ran along the scaffolding and then leaped through a window of the unfinished building.
The scaffolding was taken down, and then they all stood round, gazing with round eyes and open mouths.
Wonderful to relate, the undertaker did not bury the body, but put it on a scaffold in true native style.
Before, she could be condemned to perish on the scaffold for treason, not as a citizen, but as a subject.
You keep trying to live in a scaffold, which not all you could do to all eternity would make a house of.
On June 5, their heads were struck off upon a scaffold erected in the great square before their place of confinement.
If I were a bricklayer I would devote practically my whole morning inspecting the scaffolding on which I was to work.
Surrounding the base of the ship was an aluminum scaffold with a ladder over a hundred feet high anchored to it.
We followed the soldiers till we came to some scaffolding erected for building a house, several ropes were hanging about it.
His only comfort lay in the scaffolding which was building around it, and which seemed to promise better things.
After a building was completed, he did not think it added either to its beauty or convenience, to retain the scaffolding.