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Definition of scaffold:

  • (noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
  • (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
  • (verb) provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"

Sentence Examples:

It came to a halt at the foot of the scaffold; Marie Antoinette dismounted, and then walked slowly and with erect head up the steps.

Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.

Again the hero bares his breast to death; again the patriot falls, and again the scaffold, stained with noble blood, becomes a shrine.

Sometimes there were upwards of a hundred coaches, besides wagons, scaffolds, and other contrivances by which a sight of him could be obtained.

A soliloquy of Danton on the scaffold, written at the age of sixteen, shows how early began his fascination for the French Revolution.

His appearance on the scaffold was the signal for three prolonged shouts from an innumerable populace, the brutal effusion of one common sentiment.

Other scaffolds of at least four or five stories, and painted almost all with the same fanciful brilliancy, formed the other three sides.

A dozen still remained on the ground when we reached there, huddled together about the scaffold with their backs to the bitter wind.

After this Philip descended from the scaffold on which he had harangued, and returned to his house, where he remained the whole day.

In an opposite corner, behind a scaffolding, I found another treasure; a tiny thatched hut upon a standard, evidently designed to be borne in processions.

The noise of the workmen's hammers as they made the scaffold fast was almost drowned by the roar of the quickly gathering crowd.

They seemed prodigious wealth in those hands, and he felt somewhat as a condemned man might feel who bequeaths his jewels on the scaffold.

For there are shadowy scaffolds, and invisible executioners, sitting at our own boards and eating of our own bread, discernible only in a glass.

He admonished his hearers to be patient, but to be firm; cleave to what they believed to be right, even though it led to the scaffold.

Finding them intractable, he professed humility, and craved merely a species of scaffolding to buttress up one of the walls of the old manse.

He at length, to the infinite amusement and astonishment of the workmen, reached the summit of the scaffolding, one hundred and twenty feet high.

His own words, spoken just before his death on the scaffold many years later, will best vindicate him from such an accusation.

While I worked, he sat, hunched in a princely brocade chair, in elegant clothes, sometimes asleep in spite of my assistants, ladders, and scaffolding.

Though obsequious, he was the farthest possible from a coward, and he accepted death on the scaffold with the serene composure of a martyr.

The poor girl moved to the stand, pale and trembling, as if she was stepping upon the scaffold, and saw her executioners around her.

Do not therefore flatter yourself that were she to consent, and I were to set you free, the scaffold would become my bridal bed.

While being taken in the cart to his execution, he looked with perfect equanimity upon the thousands of spectators who thronged round the scaffold.

The judge who orders a criminal to be set in the pillory, dishonors him more than if he had condemned him to the scaffold.

And when my beloved one went to the scaffold it burned into me a white-hot scar of fearlessness and severity I shall never lose.

A torchlight procession was formed, and the scaffold and images taken down, and borne on men's shoulders along Broadway towards the Battery.

One man died while being taken upon the scaffold; his sides were cut through to the entrails, and even a part of them protruded.

As he was carried to the scaffold, some low people hired by his enemies cruelly insulted him, to whom he gave cool and effectual answers.

Four o'clock struck, and the prisoners whose punishment had been commuted to banishment appeared upon the platform, and ranged themselves round the scaffold.

He saw the wolves hurrying away through the snow and underbrush, many of them, and he saw the scaffold down on the ground.

When the body has been disposed of either in a grave or on a scaffold, they embark in the canoe and sit listening for omens.

The hunchback slid down from the little scaffolding he had constructed to enable him to survey the large area covered by the frescoes.

"Our object is to create an order of things establishing a universal inclination toward the good, and to have factions immediately hurled upon the scaffold."

"And now will you hand me over to my bitterest foes, to the derisive laughter of the conqueror, to a miserable death on the scaffold?"

The very criminal, upon whose ears fall the deep tones of the funeral knell, hopes for a reprieve even at the foot of the scaffold.

The poor martyrs were tortured with horrible contrivances even at the scaffold, that their dying cries might cause merriment for their fiendish foes.

Both these men were robbers, and of low birth, yet one perished on an ignoble scaffold, and the other died emperor of the world.

Think of me, and do not forget that to die the victim of tyrants and the martyrs of liberty sheds luster on the scaffold.

Whilst military requisition and the closing of the schools suppressed the pupils, massacres, banishment, imprisonment, destitution and the scaffold suppressed the teachers.

He had nothing to hope for in the future on this side of the grave, nothing in the present but an ignominious death on the scaffold.

In front of the scaffold was the provost of the court, mounted on horseback, and bearing the red wand of office in his hand.

The widow, glancing towards Nicholas, said to her daughter, with an air of unutterable contempt: "That coward there will dishonor us on the scaffold!"

For the moment, what is woven is not the real cocoon, but a general scaffolding which will facilitate the construction of the separate shells.

This lasted as long as he could see light, through the two reception stories, in the midst of the whirling by of the scaffolding.

Are we to have no cause like that for which our English republican ancestors died so gladly on the field, with such dignity on the scaffold?

Both of them were afterward to lay down their lives on the scaffold, but then they were in the heyday of power and magnificence.

It must be depressing for him to have only a wall between himself and the prisoners, and to see the scaffold from his windows.

We left Kim on the scaffolding, energetically troweling a water-based cement substitute onto the wall, scraping it off and moving to a new spot.

Despatched from the scaffold, and sealed by his blood, he knew that its magic words would spread by contagion the Red Thought.

Now and then they fall off from the scaffold and pretend to feel the effects of poison, and cure themselves by their incantations.

All other changes that Joe could see were the normal ones due to the taking down of scaffolding and the fastening up of rocket tubes.

If they would only take the building away and leave us a beautiful scaffolding, it would in most cases be a gain to the loveliness of earth.

The workmen were preparing to cast the head, when a fire broke out in the scaffolding and again destroyed the temple, and also the image.

This foolish revolt led to the death of innocent Lady Jane Grey, and brought sixty brave gentlemen to the scaffold and the gallows.

I was astonished that there was no scaffold erected for them to sit on, and wondered how the poor fellows could stand it.

She was banished from her kingdom, was in great danger of losing her life at sea, and saw her royal spouse expire on a scaffold.

There was no scaffold, with its final stupendous moment, and incentive to heroism; there was nothing but an ignoble end in commonplace neglect.

As he stooped to duck under the first tier of the scaffolding a bright light flashed on above him, and an alarm bell started clanging.

It will involve no sanguinary measures, and can be put into operation without recourse either to the scaffold or the gallows, or to imprisonment for life.

Be careful in walking near a scaffold, for one falling brick or stone might usher you into the great eternity for which you have no preparation.

And those who had stayed to watch the scaffold disappeared before the gendarmes escorting the men who had come to take away the body.

All these were provided for him by his friends, and a pretty cassock put on upon him, upon the scaffold, wherein he was hanged.

She knew the voice well, arose, unsteadily, to her feet, and staggered, in a blind way, across the scaffold, with her arms held out.

The night of his condemnation he was deprived of rest by the knocking of the workmen, who were commencing the scaffold for his execution.

This singular epitaph points out the last resting place of Henry Marten, one of the judges who condemned King Charles I. to the scaffold.

Suddenly the entrance of the debtor's door was darkened by a human form: the executioner hastily ascended the steps, and appeared upon the scaffold.

I believe her to have been one of the greatest sufferers by the fall of that great Imperial scaffolding which brought us all to the ground.

John Lax, clothed in red, big and burly, his red face glowing, stood on the scaffold beside the block, leaning on the dreadful axe.

She is an idealist working in the school of realism; she climbs, on scaffolding of minute prosaic observation, to heights which' are emotional and often lyrical.

They wrapped it tenderly in the skins of wild animals and laid it away on a scaffold of poles high above the reach of prowling wolves.

A sheriff struggled with Sir Harry Vane on the scaffold, rummaging his pockets, and taking from him a paper which he attempted to read.

There were almost interminable rows of scaffolding on the river's edge and upon the high bank where hung the salmon drying in the sun.

A large concourse of people was assembled, listening to a preacher, who was delivering his exhortations from a temporary scaffold erected for that purpose.

Others that he had written to the King offering to do anything, even to throw over the Protestant cause, to save his head from the scaffold.

Be they cypress, laurel or lilies, scaffold or open country, combat or cruel martyrdom, it is all the same, when for country and home's redress.

A second had followed the first, and a third and fourth, until the flimsy scaffold had gone down under their weight and movement.

The people erected scaffolds in the forum and circus, and all other parts of the city where they could best behold the pomp.

When they saw him standing on the scaffold, a shudder ran through the crowd; the women cried aloud, the men clenched their fists.

A short but impressive prayer was then offered by the minister, at the conclusion of which the condemned man, unaccompanied, mounted the scaffold.

He realized, though, that if he tried to fight his way out of the piazza, the little man on the scaffold would certainly notice him.

He fought pitched battles against the royal troops and was blessed as a savior, but died on the scaffold as a traitor to his king.

He mounted the scaffold with a brisk step and closely examined the guillotine, asking whether it worked as easily and promptly as had been asserted.

I myself have stood on the scaffold and seen a man reprieved, set free; a man to whom I had already given the last absolution.

Well, a day or two afterwards a poor workman was killed, in falling from the scaffolding of a house, that was being built close by.

Other fields were to run red with patriot blood, other monarchs to expire on the scaffold, before the solution of the deadly struggle should appear.

I had hardly sat down on the staircase when, to my surprise, a workman came out of the yard from his work on the scaffold.

This republican language falling from the lips of a pretty French woman, for whom the scaffold was prepared, was a miracle of the revolution.

And to a stop she comes, just where the sloping path passes out at the upper end of the defile, entering among the scaffolds.

Till he mounted the scaffold, having first 'taken tobacco,' the kingdom resounded with legends, doubtful enough, of his devotion to this his familiar genius.

These scaffolds are constructed by placing three upright posts in the ground in the shape of a parallelogram, and connecting them by lateral bars.

Scaffolds are erected for sun-drying the flesh and skins; and vessels and other utensils brought upon the ground to render the fat into oil.

As he stood on the scaffold calmly awaiting his death, the boy, for he was little more, had flung his gauntlet amongst the crowd.

On one side of the scaffold there are steps for ascending it, and generally there is a track at the side for drawing up the sleds.

Let it not be supposed that social order will depart with the scaffold; the social building will not fall from wanting this hideous keystone.

This republican language falling from the lips of a pretty French woman, for whom the scaffold was prepared, was a miracle of the revolution.

The captain sent some men to open the way with their halberds and in that manner they reached the knights standing around the scaffold.

These Indians being in all things most superstitious, attach a kind of sacredness to these scaffolds and all the materials used or about the dead.

The prisoner was carried to the galleys instead of the scaffold, and exhibited to visitors as a contemptible curiosity rather than as a dangerous criminal.

He mounted the scaffold about a quarter before three with his usual steadiness, and soon after making a signal with his handkerchief, was swung off.

On their own heads be it who sentence an innocent man to death; better such, even on a scaffold, than a life of ignominy and vain regret.

At a signal from one of the registrars, the two penitents, holding Joan under the arms, help her to ascend the stairs of the scaffold.