hangman's rope

Many a man would think it better than the hangman's rope.

Perhaps all his wealth had gone into buying a prison cell rather than a hangman's rope.

The moment when he realized that Sleepy had been paying out the hangman's rope while seeing what she could learn.

'Which will soon enough feel the hangman's rope about them!'

All were the same to executioner's axe or hangman's rope.

Because of the hangman's rope over one shoulder, the saint's expression often seemed puzzling.

Thirdly, they run no risk of the hangman's rope.

That like as not their future together would be shortened by a guilty verdict and a hangman's rope.

A hangman's rope would do that as well.

"Is that the hangman's rope in the picture there?

He was a gentle, polite, elderly person with no more warmth in him than a hangman's rope.

As he stood there on the beach looking down at my body he must almost have felt the hangman's rope round his neck.

Around her waist she wore a very odd belt, for all the world like a hangman's rope, but made of silk.

"I hope that something goes wrong with the hangman's rope and that you take a long, long time to die."

During the execution, the hangman's rope broke and Kidd was hanged on the second attempt.

The advance of the berg was as inevitable as the hangman's rope after the final breakfast.

"Whatever Caleb can do to them, the long wait of the last night, the eight o'clock walk in the morning to the hangman's rope, is worse."

The hangman's rope will be your medication.

Better than the hangman's rope.

My chief annoyance was the way its collar tie tugged like a hangman's rope at my throat.

This was the broadcast which was, as a matter of legal technicality, to put the hangman's rope round Joyce's neck.

All that knew McMurdo agreed that he'd end his days on a hangman's rope.

Brother Francis didn't think of the burlap hood and the hangman's rope; one of his chums did.

And what the hangman's rope is in our day, all that the cross was in our Lord's day.

They're likely to stick in your throat and choke you as surely as will a hangman's rope one day.'