Meaning of send to the scaffold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To sentence to be hanged.
2. To cause someone to be condemned to be hanged.

Examples

“The unfortunate widow of Louis XVI. was the first who was sent to the scaffold by the sanguinary tribunal of the revolution.”

“Three men were sent to the scaffold—the Brothers Stanbourn (although a great fight was put up by Richard Stanbourn's counsel) for the slaying of William Jones and (in the case of Joseph Stanbourn) of Arthur Marsh.”

“He had seen often the traces of dust on the judge's knees after he had prayed for the souls of the men he had sent to the scaffold.”

“On the other hand, how could the peerage — which had been the support of the now subverted throne, and which, perhaps, had secretly shared its hopes and its delirium — how could it escape public disgrace, if, too obedient to popular malice, a malice which had been accumulating since 1815, it sent to the scaffold the king's ministers, deputies, peers of France, men of their own rank and standard?”

“I understand, of course, why you are anxious to get this thing without disagreeable consequences to yourself. You regard it as one of the links in a chain that may some day send you to the scaffold.”

“The Drummonds were an old family who had provided Scotland with two Queens, and had always strongly supported the Stuarts, a loyalty that had sent some of its members into exile and others to the scaffold.”

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