unhanged

“Come hither, ye unhanged whelp,” said Jekyl, “and tell me if you know the old gentleman that passed down the walk just now — yonder he is, still in sight.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

“Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile.

Westward Ho! 2007

Whereas, by a little charity and mutual forbearance, things are made to go on pleasantly enough: we may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged — but do we wish to hang him therefore?

Vanity Fair 2006

Even the sight of a gibbet, if it assured him that one robber was safely disposed of by justice, never failed to remind him how many remained still unhanged.

Rob Roy 2005

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old: God help the while!

The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

Seleukos, who had kept the doctor unhanged lest the King should change his mind, dared not ask, and hanged him.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

He averred that the town was much mistaken in imagining that the king's proclamation had effectually crushed their fraternity, into which opinion they perhaps might be drawn by seeing so many of them perish in so short a time; which, he said, did not lessen their society, but would, notwithstanding that, put all that remained of them upon bolder exploits than ever, to show that they were yet unhanged.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

"_May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring, meet here again_."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829 Various

"May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again."

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Beware of the landlord -- he's a colonel of the rebels, and a bloodier-minded villain is not unhanged.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various