Such a giveaway could have jump-started tumbrils along the lobbyist corridor of K Street in the capital, hauling real estate lobbyists to a guillotine custom-built for exploiters.
12.
If it wasn't working, the same few users wouldn't be squeaking so loudly and ineffectually, tumbrils would be rolling down RfC street and Jimbo would be heading for the hills.
13.
In the engagement which ensued, the blowing-up of two tumbrils within the oblong into which Baillie had formed his troops, followed by a general stampede of camp-followers through his ranks, produced irretrievable confusion.
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As somebody said it would have been nice to wear in the tumbril on the way to the guillotine . . . . In this Age of Vulgarity marked by such minor matters as war and poverty, it gets harder everyday to scale the heights of true vulgarity.
15.
In the reign of Edward I, when the King was calling on his feudal tenants to show their title to rights which they claimed to exercise, the Prior of Christchurch, Canterbury claimed to be entitled to maintain at Monks Risborough a gallows, a tumbril and a pillory.
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The murmurs of approval across America as the waters descend on the brandy-quaffing millionaires ( yes, even " Titanic " has to admit that a few of the rich creeps did let the women and children go first ) are not quite the sound of revolutionary tumbrils.
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They had been taking a mark ( money ) for offences against the Assize of Bread and Ale, which regulated quantities and prices of these basic commodities; the culprits should have been subjected to the tumbril and pillory, instead of which the monks had been using convictions as a source of profit for their order.
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Common sense says-"'if you object to two words, then damn well say so "'- and don't accuse the other fellow of deliberately violating WP : BLP . Clearly if the problem is two words, be man enough to tell the other editor what your problem is with them, instead of shouting him down as though he were in the tumbril.
