gallows-foot

He galloped the stolen horse over highway and common, and from one county into another, but showed Retribution ever galloping after, seizing the malefactor in the country fair, carrying him before the justice, and never unlocking his manacles till he dropped them at the gallows-foot.

The Virginians 2006

"And every murderer has a mother who stands at the gallows-foot, extolling his kindness to his relatives!" yelled another.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

"And every murderer has a mother who stands at the gallows-foot, extolling his kindness to his relatives!" yelled another.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

O 'my conscience, I fancy you could beg that fellow at the gallows-foot!

The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar

It seems like it; and yet it's hard lines to think a fellow must grow up and get on the cross in spite of himself, and come to the gallows-foot at last, whether he likes it or not.

Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

So they bore Attaf away and led him to the gallows-foot whither he was followed by a world of folk in number as the dust; and, as they set him under the tree

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Armstrong, Mr. Collier, and other stout nonjuring clergymen, who absolved them at the gallows-foot.

The History of Henry Esmond 1852

I swore to her, if ever it crossed my path, to hunt it down; never to let it rest; to pursue it with the bitterest and most unrelenting animosity; to vent upon it the hatred that I deeply felt, and to spit upon the empty vaunt of that insulting will by draggin it, if I could, to the very gallows-foot.

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

She produced the little halfpenny tract, which to this day is sold at the gallows-foot upon the death of every offender.

Catherine: a story 1839

I swore to her, if ever it crossed my path, to hunt it down; never to let it rest; to pursue it with the bitterest and most unrelenting animosity; to vent upon it the hatred that I deeply felt, and to spit upon the empty vaunt of that insulting will by dragging it, if I could, to the very gallows-foot.

Oliver Twist 1838