Up the Canongate comes the rumbling of a tumbril, like the French Revolution. |
Then she was put into the tumbril, and was started on her way to the scaffold. |
Last time I fell in a shower-room I bled like a tumbril dandy and the hotel longed to be rid of me. |
He saw Jeanne, and only Jeanne, standing on the tumbril and being led to the guillotine. |
While terrified soldiers sought refuge inside the ministry, a tumbril was found. |
It finishes, discreetly, as she is forced to leave Versailles, long before we hear the faintest rumble of a tumbril. |