Hangman Sentence Examples

James caused it to be burned by the common hangman, and forbade its perusal under the 'severest penalties, complaining bitterly at the same time to Philip III.

A fifth, Louis Lingg, cheated the hangman by killing himself in prison.

It appeared in 1751, but because of its Jacobite sentiments, it was burnt by the public hangman in Edinburgh.

Albert Pierrepoint was, by far, Britain's most prolific hangman.

The victim was a condemned murderer; the man paid to strangle him was the common hangman.

Neither was he, contrary to widespread belief, Britain's last hangman.

Susannah Wells, who was also vindicated, was less fortunate as she had already been branded by the public hangman.

What did those charged with capital crimes think, as they sought justice from a system which stood them before an experienced amateur hangman?

Daley was hanged by the infamous English hangman, William Marwood on a scaffold erected at the North end of the jail.

The 19 th century hangman William Marwood devised a method called ' the long drop ' that killed prisoners quickly by breaking their necks.

Baby farmer Amelia Dyer is set to face the hangman's noose for the murder of a baby.

It also has a fun section where members can exchange expressions and slang by creating, playing and discussing phrasal Hangman word games.

He had forwarded a petition for reprieve to the council, which Clavering took care should not be presented in time, and which was subsequently burnt by the common hangman on the motion of Francis.

A choice for slightly older children available online is the Internet Safety Hangman game.

Play phonics games similar to Hangman, Jumbles, and Battleship, and in the style of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

The hangman games tend to be easy and get progressively harder, but not on a curve that is impossible.

Offers a section of word games including hangman.

In this computerized version of this classic game, try to figure out the mystery word before the hangman figure is completed.

However, in addition, you will find mazes, word searches, hangman, and even tic tac toe grids.

Below this display, you'll see the sing for the "Hangman's Tree Historic Site.

Under the general law against heresy their books were burnt by the hangman, they were searched for signs of witchcraft, they were imprisoned for five weeks and then sent away.

It could not be proved that he had ordered the printing, and all Frederick could do was to have the pamphlet burnt by the hangman.

On the 18th of this month he moved that the Engagement, with the Solemn League and Covenant, should be burned by the hangman.

His corpse, after suffering every indignity, was quartered by the public hangman, and burnt with dung by the Romanist soldiers.

In his pastoral letter to his clergy urging them to take the oath of allegiance, Burnet grounded the claim of William and Mary on the right of conquest, a view which gave such offence that the pamphlet was burnt by the common hangman three years later.

The Sorbonne condemned the book, the priests persuaded the court that it was full of the most dangerous doctrines, and the author, terrified at the storm he had raised, wrote three separate retractations; yet, in spite of his protestations of orthodoxy, he had to give up his office at the court, and the book was publicly burned by the hangman.

She was then made to climb a ladder draped in black cloth, whilst the hangman climb a ladder draped in black cloth, whilst the hangman climbed a ladder beside her.

They escape the hangman twice only to find themselves in a town under siege.

On the question board at Bawarla, I brought along a test and we played hangman.

I soon learned why Christina (the previous gapper) had left a note saying leave hangman as a last resort.

Johnson did see the hangman on the 15th December 1925.

Baby farmer Amelia Dyer is set to face the hangman 's noose for the murder of a baby.

My wife was as nervous as a hangman's customer.

In Scotland episcopacy was set up, the covenant to which Charles had taken so many solemn oaths burnt by the common hangman, and Argyll brought to the scaffold, while the kingdom was given over to the savage and corrupt administration of Lauderdale.