5.The smuggling of salt and tobacco sends every year several hundred people to the galleys, besides a very considerable number whom it sends to the gibbet.
6.The wheel, the gibbet, the strappado, kept good guard around the place of refuge, and lay in watch incessantly for their prey, like sharks around a vessel.
7.Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead color.
8.Dom Nicolas winked both his big eyes, and seemed to choke upon his Adam's apple. Montfaucon, the great grisly Paris gibbet, stood hard by the St. Denis Road, and the pleasantry touched him on the raw.
Dom Nicolas 眨着他的大眼睛,似乎被喉结噎住了。 Montfaucon,可怕的巴黎绞刑架,坚定地站在圣丹尼斯路旁,愉快地触动了他的心。机翻
9.She gave a ponderous shrug. " Emm wants Edmure's head off. For once, he may be right. Ser Ryman has made us a laughingstock with that gibbet of his. You need to show Ser Brynden that your threats have teeth" .
10.As to the rest, I had never once heard of them. 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" .