gallows bird ,

But the two gallows birds are not in France.

Memories well and good, but not under that bankrupt gallows bird."

Or even for that gallows bird servant of yours.

If there are horse thieves and gallows birds, I want to know of them.'

It keeps the gallows birds happy.

'Come down at once, you gallows bird,' he cried.

"And how would you like it if the noble don would hang you now right next to that gallows bird?"

There are no gallows birds.

She again predicted he would hang from the bridge but gave him to the Black Gallows Bird to learn the trade.

Then the boy ran back and picked up the kid, and took it to the Black Gallows Bird.

The Ballad of the Gallows Bird (published 1960)

'Good-morning to you,' said the woman as she reached the place where the Black Gallows Bird lived when he was not away on his business.

There had been no horse thieves, no gallows birds, no traitors, no real scamps of any kind.

The life of the people was just for us to look at, not to take part in, unless you were a Godforsaken gallows bird like Porta.

No horse thieves, no gallows birds, but there had been others she could not have guessed and in whom she could take no pride.

Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned.

The Gallows Bird by Camilla Läckberg (from Swedish) (2011)

'You shall not,' cried the Black Gallows Bird; 'they will hear you.' '

And his darling admirer Megan Breen could flash her razzle- dazzle smile as she watched him swing in the wind like a gallows bird.

Simon leaped back, his heart tipping in his chest; he flung out his hands, fingers spread wide as though to block out the sight of this bizarre gallows bird.

The Black Gallows Bird, who was more accustomed to the business, tucked himself up on the hay and went to sleep, telling the boy to wake him when the merry-makers had departed.

But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick, for the Black Gallows Bird was dead, as the Shifty Lad intended he should be.

The Gallows Bird (Swedish: Olycksfågeln) is a 2006 novel by Camilla Läckberg, translated by Steven T. Murray in 2011.

For a while we ceased to be the gallows birds we normally were, and Porta did not even lard his talk with words descriptive of the human sexual organs, as he usually did.

A few weeks after that the Black Gallows Bird had news of a wedding that was to be held near the town; and the bridegroom had many friends and everybody sent him a present.