gallowses

She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!

Cymbeline 2004

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O! there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses.

Act V. Scene IV. Cymbeline 1914

Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen.

The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

Go follow the blood-stained track of this great Moloch, crested with fiery plume and direful hate, into the courtrooms, the jails, penitentiaries, and gallowses.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

I lay 'em by me while I put him on de altar, I jes made him wrop he arms roun 'a little locus'-tree, an' I fasten he wris'es wid he own gallowses, 'cuz I didn' warn 'was'e dem hick'ries; an' all de time I bindin 'him I tellin' him 'bout he sins.

P'laski's Tunament 1891 Thomas Nelson Page 1887

Daan stairs aw flew withaat stoppin 'to festen mi gallowses or put mi booits on, an as sooin as aw went aght th' lads set up a shaat an th 'cock flew into a chamber winder at t'other side o' th 'yard.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

He then loosened my gallowses (braces), and buckled them tightly above my hips.

The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses."

Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Edward Eggleston 1869

When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866