Sentence examples for mounted the scaffold from inspiring English sources

A peer might be executed for treason, but he was still a peer as he mounted the scaffold.

The former Queen had been denied a priest of her choice (one of the dissidents who had refused to swear an oath of loyalty to the Revolution), so she mounted the scaffold alone and apologized to Sanson for stepping on his toe.

On Dec. 26, 38 Dakota Sioux were led to the scaffold; they sang their death songs as they walked, and when they had mounted the scaffold and the hoods were drawn down over their faces, they continued to sing and sway, and clasp one another's manacled hands.

Sheppard handed "a paper to someone as he mounted the scaffold", perhaps as a symbolic endorsement of the account in the "Narrative".

He mounted the scaffold and addressed the audience, telling them that he knew he had broken the law, but that morally, and in the eyes of his religion, he had committed no offence.

They mount the scaffold, and the music quietly ends.

Lucky Ted has yet another chance to mount the scaffold before election day with the execution of Kevin Keith on September 15.

They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold . . . is incomparably the best for keeping a whole people in slavery.

Arrested, tried and trundled to their doom in batches - often within a single day - they might watch their entire family being dispatched before mounting the scaffold themselves, soaked in arterial blood.

Even the very smallest roles were played brilliantly, such as this final episode's executioner, established by Philippe Spall, within the space of a few minutes and fewer lines, as a man with professional pride and no little compassion; the person you would want on your side if you ever had to mount the scaffold to clear the way for Jane Seymour.

Thomas was the first to mount the scaffold.