gallows

The street frightened her, since it led either to the gallows or to the river.

The fear of death paralysed her efforts to escape the gallows. It seemed to her she had been staggering in that street for hours.

The memory of the early romance with the young butcher survived, tenacious, like the image of a glimpsed ideal in that heart quailing before the fear of the gallows and full of revolt against death.

"No; I didn't know," he declared, with a sort of flabby stupidity, whose comical aspect was lost upon a woman haunted by the fear of the gallows, "but I do now.

"On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air.

"He knows nothing," said Defarge; "at least nothing more than would easily elevate himself to a gallows of the same height.

If I sought to enter by the house, my own servants would consign me to the gallows. I saw I must employ another hand, and thought of Lanyon.

It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.

His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was himself regarded.