scape-gallows

'Oh, it must have been published in an insignificant sheet printed in some obscure corner of the state; perhaps by a gang of' squatters, 'in the Dismal Swamp, universally regarded as a pest, and edited by some scape-gallows, who is detested by the whole community.'

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

'Oh, it must have been published in an insignificant sheet printed in some obscure corner of the state; perhaps by a gang of' squatters, 'in the Dismal Swamp, universally regarded as a pest, and edited by some scape-gallows, who is detested by the whole community.'

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Many years ago, I stepped into a court-house, in a small town in Tennessee, and immediately after I had seated myself, a lawyer arose, and made a very vehement speech in favor of some scape-gallows who was arraigned before the court.

A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward

She's had trouble enough without adding on this young 'scape-gallows.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

Page 72 of the scape-gallows loafers, who constitute the dignified patrol of the neighborhood.

Jamie Parker, the Fugitive Emily Catharine Pierson 1851

And remember this, 'scape-gallows,' said Ralph, menacing him with his hand, 'that if we meet again, and you so much as notice me by one begging gesture, you shall see the inside of a jail once more, and tighten this hold upon me in intervals of the hard labour that vagabonds are put to.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

Perhaps the reader will say, 'Oh, it must have been published in an insignificant sheet printed in some obscure corner of the state; perhaps by a gang of' squatters, 'in the Dismal Swamp, universally regarded as a pest, and edited by some scape-gallows, who is detested by the whole community.

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

_scape-gallows_ has been so bitter against Whig and Know Nothing

Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841

Tweed: thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms: thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution: thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice: thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory: thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity: thou butcher, imbruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography: thou arch-heretic in pronunciation: thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis: thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences: thou squeaking dissonance of cadence: thou pimp of gender: thou Lion Herald to silly etymology: thou antipode of grammar: thou executioner of construction: thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded: thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax: thou scavenger of mood and tense: thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou _ignis fatuus_, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance: thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense: thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom: thou persecutor of syllabication: thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777