"Gallows-tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... light on one Dangling in mockery Of what he spent his substance on Blindly and uselessly! . . . "He might," they'll say, "Have built, some way. A cheaper gallows-tree!" ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
... natural cruelty. Inability to devise a satisfactory system of secondary punishments, and a genuine conviction that ninety-nine out of every hundred culprits were incorrigible, caused him to maintain that the gallows-tree was the most efficacious as well as the cheapest instrument that could be invented for protecting society against malefactors. Another of his stern dicta was, that previous good character was a reason ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson |
