At the end of the 15th century, the formidable gibbet was already very much dilapidated.

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There was Japan, swinging from its gibbet off the China coast, barely living proof of what can happen when the endaka is done.

CNN: Sign-off 1998

In "Pride and Prejudice, " after teenage Lydia Bennet runs off with the ne'er-do-well Wickham and risks her family's reputation, the heroine, Elizabeth, maintains a sarcastic yet ultimately generous tone with her flibberty-gibbet younger sister.

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