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"They have all died on the scaffold," he said with a hoarse, rasping voice.
The ray of light fell below the scaffold, slanting to the ground.
The models of these scaffolds were deposited in the hall of the wardens.
He repeated this statement both on the fatal hurdle and on the scaffold.
Lastly, a scaffolding was erected over the front, which represented a stuccoed house.
Then he saw the reason for this; one tower was swathed in scaffolding.
I have improvised a scaffolding, and am now going to work on my outlines.
The guillotine, painted red, was placed upon a scaffold, of about five feet high.
He does not see the scaffold, nor feel about his throat the deadly noose.
Life is precious, but death, even death on the scaffold, is preferable to dishonor.
Once he thought of committing suicide, and thus avoiding the ignominy of the scaffold.
From the scaffold I will expose the snare in which I have been taken.
At his order, the rolling scaffolding was swiftly detached and driven away.
Yet from it is made scaffolding, upon which stand a multitude of Chinese workmen.
"If I confide to you a secret which would place me on the scaffold?"
In the middle of the town, the scaffold was raised for this butchery.
He might walk to the scaffold with a step that was outwardly firm.
Lowell's antithesis about "Truth forever on the scaffold; wrong forever on the throne."
That's Jim Barnes, sir, the best workman that ever went on a scaffold.
The coachman halted at the foot of the scaffold, and the king dismounted.
It was like a reprieve to a man on the very steps of the scaffold!
He died upon the scaffold unrepentant, maintaining that the prize was worth it.
This formed an oblong square, in the center of which stood the scaffold.
Six of these were reprieved, and the others suffered death on the scaffold.
Two scaffolds are erected, two women mount thereon: Madame Roland and Marie Antoinette.
"Yes; we will not budge before the scaffold," added Calabash, with savage pride.
Epigrams delivered at the foot of the scaffold have always been carefully prepared beforehand.
Whatever he might have said of the scaffold, this was very imprudent of him.
Contrary to usage, a Protestant preacher was brought to attend him on the scaffold.
The artist in the meanwhile stood outside on his scaffold in a pensive manner.
It hung down at his side like a great big felon from the scaffold.
Not the first time in history will a scaffold become the pedestal of honor.
He crawled about the scaffolding, stick in hand, a crumpled hat upon his head.
In a moment this mass of woodwork and scaffolding began to blaze like straw.
Behold, there was a burial scaffold, with the blankets all ragged and dangling.
You have the lash, hard labor in the mines; you have scaffolds, you have executioners.
Their blood reddens the scaffold, and their ashes are thrown to the wind.
Enough has been wrenched out of him to send poor Lady Lisle to the scaffold.
The crowd gathered round the scaffold, listening to the words of the mendicant.
He cut young saplings, trimmed them, and tied them together into a tall scaffold.
Here they found a scaffold erected, and a considerable concourse of persons expecting them.
He was wrenching with all his might at a section of the scaffold platform.
To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
He was dragged by cords down from the scaffold, and tied on a bier.
The first one to mount the scaffold, he showed himself calm, resolute and unmoved.
Some scaffolding, set up for repairs, had been given them for arrears of pay.
Murder and the scaffold will probably be the net result of your officious zeal.
The little maid lifted her head and looked steadfastly at the scaffold there erected.
Scaffolding is only required for the workmen to close the opening at the top.
The murderer upon the scaffold smilingly exhorts the multitude to meet him in heaven.
Lady Jane Grey, when on the scaffold, yielded nothing in manliness to the others.
All this scaffolding rested on three great boughs which sprang from the trunk.
And Raphael, quick at repartee, retorted "And you, like an executioner going to the scaffold."
And therefore you place your benefactors in an asylum, and your noblemen on the scaffold.
At the scaffold a priest, whom he knew personally, once more exhorted him to confess.
The scaffold was again requisitioned, and he was strung up again by fingers and queue.
I might be but piling up the scaffold from which I was to be hurled!
All the scaffolding he had built up had brought him only to this snare.
One after another they mounted the fatal scaffold and were led to the guillotine.
Cotton takes pains to call pulpits "scaffolds," to show that they had no sacredness.
It is the box out of which Raleigh took a pinch of snuff on the scaffold.
On the summit of the Hill appeared the scaffold and the gallows already noticed.
I ascended the scaffolding, and the boards shook, creaked under my feet like teeth.
And the carriage rolled on, bearing its occupants to a dungeon and the scaffold.
A forest of cypress looks like a scaffolding of deep green verdure suspended in the air.
It was difficult even to see through the forest of bayonets which surrounded the scaffold.
The men gave our names, went to the scaffold expecting a reprieve, and were hanged.
The people listened with breathless interest to the harangue he made them from the scaffold.
Situations which require long drill columns or special scaffolds greatly accentuate the loss of time.
The outside scaffolds allow room for two rows of oars, beside that of the hull.
Even the reprieve, sometimes granted on the scaffold, is no compensation for terrors so intense.
A goblet of sack was brought him, and he made his way to the scaffold.
The eventful day at length dawned when the scaffold was to be brought into requisition.
These imbeciles are to suffer on the scaffold the penalty of this great national crime.
He also was the first French engineer to erect bridges of great span without scaffolding.
Of these, twenty-seven, and of the common people an immense number, expired on the scaffold.
He stepped, looking like a thief, from the scaffold which he had mounted so serenely.
The expense of the scaffold, and of making the designs, was very inconsiderable indeed.
When man's foot trembles on the scaffold, woman stands there serene, unwavering, and self-sustained.
This favorite of the people was attended to the scaffold with a plentiful effusion of tears.
New scaffolds, gallows, and stakes were erected everywhere, ready for those devoted to destruction.
When he first came on the scaffold, he seemed exceedingly terrified at the approach of death.
Two executioners, one holding the axe, stood upon the scaffold on one side of the block.
He had not then betrayed, and brought to the scaffold, and slandered his benefactor.
Why is a man going to be married like a felon being conducted to the scaffold?
The structure was a rude scaffold and the vigilantes had already hanged two bandits.
When she came home she was amazed to find huge scaffolds built all around the house.
By a strange concurrence of circumstances, his own regiment mounted guard round the scaffold.
From sumptuous debating hall to Dominican prison and scaffold was but a short step.
Half an hour later, Robert, who expected to suffer death on the scaffold, was liberated.
Like many another "well-meaning English official" of the period, his life ended upon the scaffold.
His friends and his defenders were meanwhile dying for his cause on scaffold or gallows.
Probably no man ever journeyed to the scaffold under such circumstances of pomp and splendor.
The Revolution culminated in the crisis of 1793, which sent the King to the scaffold.
Before that day, men struck a gong from a scaffold whenever there was a fire.
And, as the crypt will be empty, the whole scaffolding will come to the ground.
The ballad is an exaggeration, two only of the sons having suffered on the scaffold.
The boundary wall had still to be surmounted, but the scaffold pole was too short.
The hangman is already plaiting his rope and the carpenters hammering at a high scaffold.
The duke lost his life on the scaffold for imputed treason soon after John's accession.