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Letter "G" » gallows
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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Keywords:
chastity,
corpse,
deform,
deformed,
deforms,
distressing,
emasculated,
engaged,
gallows,
impotent,
in a sense,
missionary,
offers,
sentiments,
sodomy,
spectacle,
vow
«Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.»
«Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.»
«When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with them / that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance / that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains / how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. / I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.»
Author: Charles Lamb
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Critic,
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bargains,
blest,
blind alley,
courses,
disgrace,
etc.,
gallows,
rarity,
swarm,
swarms,
vicious
«In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.»
«Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.»
«The gallows in my garden, people say, / Is new and neat and adequately tall.»
«The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows»