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pillory
1. In the statute of Tumbrel and Pillory, enacted nearly about the same time, the price of ale is regulated according to every sixpence rise in the price of barley, from two shillings, to four shillings the quarter
2. In the center of the throng, a young man stood locked into a pillory, wrists and neck bound by heavy timbers
3. He tried to throw back his head and laugh, but the pillory restricted the movement
4. For serious offences, use is made of the pillory as well as of
5. “First: Mr Tulip has been with more women than you've had hot dinners, and second, it'll be you that stands before the pillory stocks and it'll be Tulip and I raising bets for the first to knock out one of your beady little eyes
6. So, why did they have a fortuneteller at the Royal Oaks Renaissance Faire and not a pillory?
7. Too bad this town square didn’t have stocks and pillory
8. It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent; also, for the whipping-post, another dear old institution, very humanising and softening to behold in action; also, for extensive transactions in blood-money, another fragment of ancestral wisdom, systematically leading to the most frightful mercenary crimes that could be
9. The lights were nearly all extinguished in the passages, the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning's interest of gallows, pillory, whipping-post, and branding-iron, should repeople it
10. pillory, carting, and the whole process of that nature
11. (Bloom with asses' ears seats himself in the pillory with crossed arms, his feet protruding
12. drowned corpse of his son, approaches the pillory
13. For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church
14. Wrestling-matches, in the different fashions of Cornwall and Devonshire, were seen here and there about the market-place; in one corner, there was a friendly bout at quarterstaff; and—what attracted most interest of all—on the platform of the pillory, already so noted in our pages, two masters of defence were commencing an exhibition with the buckler and broadsword
15. As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory
16. Meanwhile Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!
17. The other replied that, for aught they could see, the men were quiet, and sober, and intended nobody any harm; and that there were many that traded in their fair that were more worthy to be put into the cage, yea, and pillory too, than were the men they had abused
18. close acquaintance with the pillory
19. The most curious thing is that their excitement, their exaltation, will last until the pillory
20. In the pillory all his strength fails him, and he begs pardon of the people
21. As for the men, Ptitsin was one of Rogojin’s friends; Ferdishenko was as much at home as a fish in the sea, Gania, not yet recovered from his amazement, appeared to be chained to a pillory
22. And he recalled the pillory, where he had been whipped, and the executioner, and the people all around, and the chains, and the prisoners, and his prison life of the last twenty-six years, and his old age