Hanged

Examples

• You have done your best to get an innocent man hanged. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Generosity be hanged! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If those who had bad fathers and mothers were bad themselves, they were hanged for that. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think, if they bring me out to be hanged to-morrow, as is much to be doubted they may, I will try its weight upon the finisher of the sentence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Hanged if I do! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The rest be hanged, for I don't know what they're in the world for. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Hanged, you know, said Mr. Brooke, with a quiet nod. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We saved our recommendation, honest fellow,' said Eugene, 'for the next candidate--the one who will offer himself when you are transported or hanged. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Let the public be hanged! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The disclosure of that secret might, in past years, have hanged him--might now transport him for life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Be hanged if I know why, said the captain. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Yes, he hanged himself during the night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I'm hanged if I understand you! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I'm hanged if I'll stand your airs of superiority and infernal pity and patronage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I'm hanged if she will! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Seems be hanged, Dobbin, his junior interrupted him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And many men have been wrongfully hanged. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I would rather be hanged in my own way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I'm hanged if I will! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They say you will be hanged, in spite of all your brother Wellesley can say in your defence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Whether I was at all in danger of being hanged? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There's been overmuch coming back of late years, and I should of a certainty be hanged if took. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I learned afterward that he got seven years in prison, while the horse-thief was hanged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So I went into the harbor of Sebastopol with fear and trembling--full of a vague, horrible apprehension that I was going to be found out and hanged. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Thinks more interest's wanted--get man hanged presentime--than get man place ten thousand a year. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You'll every one of you be hanged at the next assizes, if you don't mind, said Fred, who afterwards laughed heartily as he remembered his own phrases. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Born to be hanged, more like, said Maurice viciously, hardly able to conceal his dislike of this heartless, cowardly, beautiful animal before him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Some say it's the end of the world, and be hanged if I don't think it looks like it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hanged if I know, the Captain said; his principal turned very red. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Editor: Rodney