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They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habit; most of them telling me, “they died in poverty and disgrace, and the rest on a scaffold or a gibbet.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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There was a gibbet in the courtyard, black and foreboding, but unoccupied.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality, as a prime dainty; and that, in his time, the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the Emperor, was sold to his imperial majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court in joints from the gibbet, at four hundred crowns.
Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal (1729)
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