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Definition of Gibbets
1. gibbet [v] - See also: gibbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbets
Literary usage of Gibbets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... which was wounded in the cause of freedom and virtue, and bury it with the
honors of war, and afterwards hang the remainder of your body in gibbets. ..."
2. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, William Maltby (1856)
"Speaking of something which he would not do on any inducement, he exclaimed
vehemently, " I had rather be hanged upon twenty gibbets." —" Don't you think, ..."
3. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"... Monks, Nuns, Synods, Councils, Anathemas, Dungeons, gibbets, Flames, and Death,
all for the glory of a God of mercy, and the honour of his holy name. ..."
4. Wigwam and War-path by Alfred Benjamin Meacham (1875)
"THE TWO gibbets. A GLOOMY picture fills the eye from the height of the bluff
whence we took our first view of the Lava Beds,, Jan. ..."
5. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... who gave orders for them all to be hung on gibbets. After this the king
possessed his kingdom in peace all the rest of his life, devoting himself wholly ..."
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