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That sort of behaviour could get her flogged, or at the vest least locked in a pillory for a while.
The High Bailiff shall make a stool and mend the pillory to punish chiders and scolders by Christmas.
Minor criminals might also be punished in the village or manor by whipping, the stocks, or the pillory.
Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping.
Thomas had come home, to a Bolton where the pillory was still a force, where unrest and distress were still to be overcome.
How much gumption does it take to pillory the malfeasant editors, reporters, and publisher who turned to compost ages ago?
For his temerity he was sentenced to be nailed by his ears to the local pillory and responded by laying a curse on the courtroom and city.
She was sentenced to the pillory and to have the offending tapestry burned before her eyes.
And because the pillory of a bad book is as culturally stimulating as the lauding of a good book.
The punishments for which may be confiscation of the fish, imprisonment, the pillory, and the offender giving up his occupation for a year and a day.
The pillory was a set of stocks that imprisoned head and arms and was used to humiliate petty offenders, who would be insulted and perhaps pelted with mud by passers-by.
The Foes were Dissenters, Protestants who did not belong to the Anglican Church, and Daniel's ironic attack on the church landed him a three-day stretch in the pillory.
David was on very civil terms with his former opponents, being treated by them as Dr. Shebbeare was in the pillory, who was being allowed to wear a fine powdered flowing wig.
But after a poor showing in the elections with women and minorities, they may not want to pillory an otherwise well-qualified black woman.
If somebody has varied substantially from the policy, he basically is placed in a public pillory.
While the mother was put in the pillory to be ridiculed in the public square, the girl was let off by the council with a reprimand.
With the current BSE situation, it is quite out of order to pillory our farmers and young farmers.
In her single-minded effort to pillory De Beers, Roberts makes mistakes of fact and emphasis.
The Greens' idea is to have a black list, but in my view, this is reminiscent of a pillory in the Middle Ages.
The only preserved pillory in Switzerland can be found at the southern corner of the Rathaus, a vestige of the medieval judicial system.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The rabbinate had placed itself in the pillory, and undermined its own authority.
They had the right to erect gallows, pillory and tumbrel for the punishment of malefactors.
When they had agreed, it appeared that one of his ears was nailed at the pillory in Bristol.
As in the English pillory, the name of the man and the nature of his offence are inscribed on the cangue.
Olof and Gert, dressed as penitents, stand in the pillory near the entrance.
He held a sprig of laurel in his hand during the time he was confined in the pillory.
We do not envy most of them their eternal martyrdom in marble, their pillory of indiscrimination.
He informs us that there was a pillory at Wallingford in 1231, and probably earlier.
Of course when they saw me I was not on my pedestal, I was in the pillory.
He was condemned to the pillory by the Star Chamber conclave.
In fact, the Nottingham cuck-stool was similar to a pillory.
He stood two hours in the pillory, and had his forehead branded.
She held out her hands as though she would physically drag her husband from the pillory.
The pillory stood not far away, and the May-pole is also mentioned.
Then he moved in his bonds, and his furious exertions made the ancient wheel of the pillory shriek on its axle.
The Tories were at first delighted, but when they discovered the hoax became correspondingly indignant and Defoe was set in the pillory, and imprisoned.
I am accustomed to stand in the pillory of my own past life.
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