gallows tree

I'd think bad to have you stifled on the gallows tree.

Nothing would please me more than to see the three of you in gaol for life, or dancing on the gallows tree!

And died upon a gallows tree, near to the bridge of Toome.

If we had remained standing by the gallows tree, we would have been lost.

We will end up onthe gallows tree, if they lay their hands upon us."

"Only the bishop may determine what fruit the gallows tree shall bear.

We're on another planet-and yet our Gazelle must be standing right where the gallows tree was.

Way up high upon yon gallows tree, the crows will pick your bones.

This was traditionally the gallows tree for the barony.

High upon the gallows tree swung the noble-hearted three.

To the right of the road, the black silhouette of a gallows tree loomed in the dark.

He'd hung Irishmen like apples from the gallows tree.

They recognized the gallows tree in the distance and in front of it a familiar figure-Josua.

There, where the gallows tree had stood, was now only a harshly bright ray of energy standing perpendicular to the rocky ground.

Strangely enough this gallows has no connection with the Border raiders, many of whom met their death "high on the gallows tree".

He had seen his dead father dance as they cut him down from the gallows tree, his face purple, his tongue distended.

Voices from the Gallows Trees.

According to the farmer at Evelix the Gallows Tree stood until recently in a niche in a wall nearby.

Tushielaw Tower gallows Tree, parish of Ettrick in the Scottish borders.

He fingered the splinter from the gallows tree with sick bewilderment Cuthbert lay beside him with his face made impassive.

He searched them long with his grey Haldane eyes, memorizing every banner, every detail of the awful fruit of the gallows trees.

- in cringe-inducing dialect: "Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o'all / For the priests and the gallows tree?

An old beech tree is still known as a 'Gallows Tree' and grows in an exposed position near Monikie in Angus.

"The Gallows Tree" (Bert Jansch)

And the men sing, On Mountjoy one Monday morning High upon the gallows tree, Kevin Barry gave his young life For the cause of liberty.