"Theaters were in the disreputable part of town, with pimps and gallows and bear-baiting, " she said.
The rope is not a normal gallows rope but the stem of an opium poppy.
The skies are gray, and a wrought-iron tipple sits at the mouth of the mine like a gallows.
Khan Academy has been put on the pedestal and has been sent to the proverbial gallows.
The last British hangings took place in 1964, although the gallows at most prisons have been redundant for much longer.
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When he first returned to the data centre on Tuesday last week he was struck by his colleagues' gallows humour.
Strong words from a guy who has a lot of pricey booze to choose from when going to the gallows.
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Minutes later it collided head-on with a Ford Escort being driven by a local man at Stone Gallows on the A38.
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The venue has seen up-and-coming local talent and bigger bands such as Gallows, King Creosote and Rebel Lion Sound System perform.
It has the only working gallows in the country and it is thought more than 100 men were executed in the dockyard.
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It seems that only once under our government's aegis did someone go to the gallows for espousing unsavory views (Julius Streicher, 1946).
Then, an offensive joke can be seen as an ideological manifesto, gallows humor can be seen as a serious support for sexual assault.
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No one likes to keep track of their time, particularly not professionals and there is a bit of gallows humor thrown around law firms.
One example of a shovel-ready project is the Gallows Road-Lee Highway intersection in the notoriously traffic-clogged suburbs of Northern Virginia outside Washington, D.
The songs are more upbeat and more produced than his previous work, though his homey narratives and disarming gallows humor are as present as ever.
" To make shooting that part of the finale a little easier, his co-star David Morrissey kept him in stitches beforehand with some "gallows humor.
"According to the records when they were cut down from the gallows sometimes... the body was taken to Gloucester Infirmary and used for anatomical dissection, " he added.
Sometimes it was dark humor, even gallows humor in the face of impending disaster, but the laughter was always close to the surface, ready to explode at any moment.
He avoided the gallows by spilling the beans on the eve of his scheduled execution about the activities of the notorious death squads operated by apartheid security forces, our reporter says.
The normalization of prison rape like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized.
More important, for a man gambling his reputation on resurrecting a series that never really penetrated the popular consciousness, he appeared surprisingly relaxed, allowing only a trace of gallows humor to color his sunny disposition.
Though all industrialized societies started sending more people to prison and fewer to the gallows in the eighteenth century, it was in Enlightenment-inspired America that the taste for long-term, profoundly depersonalized punishment became most aggravated.
When the money is stolen by a neighbor (David Morse), a vengeful Selma quickly conquers her shyness with the help of a gun, and from there it is a short step to the courtroom and the gallows.
But, he said, there had been "far too many killings" recently where it was impossible not to wonder if the threat of an "early dawn walk to the gallows" would have changed the actions of the perpetrator.
The issue flares into mainstream debate only when prominent killers such as Ajmal Kasab, the surviving attacker among a group of Islamists who carried out a massacre in Mumbai in November 2008 appear to be heading to the gallows.
Gangel's auction has a third part, a general consignment sale that includes a revolver once owned by Western legend Wyatt Earp, and the rifle Virginia Governor Henry Alexander Wise used to send famed abolitionist John Brown to the gallows in 1859.
He lasted 15 unconvincing deliveries and departed to a routine edge which was smartly snaffled at first slip by Tendulkar, leaving Chris Tremlett to hit successive boundaries and last man Monty Panesar to provide some gallows humour for those that remained by blocking out the final over of the day.
Until a few weeks ago it was a foregone conclusion that Turkey's parliament, dominated as it is by the right, would have Mr Ocalan sent to the gallows, even though Turkey has in fact observed a de facto moratorium on executions since 1984 in order to improve its chances of joining the European Union.
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