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Huge as his figure must once have been, it now seemed, like his gibbeted plates, all battered and chipped and over-written with the marks of time.

From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur

"Try to be like somebody," said the unlucky critic-bookseller to Lamartine; and he has been gibbeted for it, very justly, for the best part of a century.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

A certain Mansell of Otery is gibbeted as a terror to evil doers in a way which would form a sufficient ground for an action for libel in these degenerate days.—Ship,

From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander

Did you not speak of me as the lover of your prayer, and you said that in ecstasy the nuns—and indeed it must be so—exchange a gibbeted saint for some ideal man?

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Buchanan had in this instance the advantage of far better advice, but this silly old man must not be gibbeted and Lincoln left free from criticism for his part in the same transaction.

From Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron