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Hangman in sentence

16 examples of Hangman in a sentence

There is a little nudity and some erections, but no single element could possibly save this from the hangman's noose.
This is a well-worn story about a man who marries to escape the hangman's noose, then sets about "taming" his reluctant bride.
Engaging, riveting tale of captured US army turncoat who has to prove his innocence to avoid the hangman.
Will she cheat the hangman?
And, in the end, Ben Wade, who, himself, or through his gang, has dispatched everybody who matters to their eternal rewards, is so impressed with the truth and courage of the opposition, that he voluntarily gets on the train to go back to the Yuma Prison for his third time and, most likely, to a date with the hangman.
They are invaded by the police, a retired hangman, an escaped prisoner, a band of crooks and several dead bodies, all looking for something, either the crook or the loot hidden somewhere in the house.
Soon Bugs is in stripes, but it's the guard who will find prison life to be hell when Bugs Bunny is around to trick him into a cell, the hangman's noose, an electric chair and even into the warden's office, where Bugs will put a severe strain on the relationship between boss and underling.
They could replace the whole court with a single hangman."
"That is true," said the majordomo; "let your worship consider what is to be done with these men.""What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred reals at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor prisoners; and you who have neither profession nor property, and hang about the island in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and some time of the day to-morrow quit the island under sentence of banishment for ten years, and under pain of completing it in another life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or I'll make him feel my hand."
If not, I will apply to the chancellor, I will apply to the king, I will apply to the hangman, I will move the courts against you, I will denounce you as branded, I will bring you to trial; and if you are acquitted, well, by the faith of a gentleman, I will kill you at the corner of some wall, as I would a mad dog.’""I like the means well enough," said d’Artagnan, "but where and how to meet with her?""Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man.
"What--not in Iceland?""They are neither in Iceland nor anywhere else.""Why is that?""Because Arne Saknussemm was persecuted for heresy, and in 1573 his books were burned by the hands of the common hangman."
"Joe Berks," said Jackson, "I'd save the hangman the job of breaking your neck if His Royal Highness wasn't in the room."
A ladder had, in fact, been raised up against the permanent gibbet, and the hangman's assistant was busying himself with adjusting the chains which had been rusted by the rain.
Spin, spin, my distaff, spin her rope for the hangman, who is whistling in the meadow.
"Yes, there is!" retorted the hangman, "and you know it well.
Oh! the hangman lackeys! the wretched, blackguard assassins!