http://airwolf.lmtonline.com/news/archive/070...DALLAS (AP) - The body of
thrice-hanged Texas
outlaw Bloody Bill Longley, whose burial site has
long been missing, could be unearthed in central
Texas this week. [...] Officials quickly hoisted Longley and launched
him into eternity - or myth -
making it the third time
he danced on air. Applause broke out among the
more than 4,000 spectators
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=danc....
dance on air, Slang. to be hanged.
http://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/2004_04_01_archi...We ended up in the Last Drop, so named because it’s the inn opposite where many a vagabond
danced on air on the end of hemp rope, usually before a cheering crowd.
Next door is another gallows related pub called Maggie Dickson’s, named for that lady who was hung but didn’t die and was released, although she was forever known afterwards as Half-hangit Maggie.
http://ebooks.du.ac.in/edu-resources/Resource...To all this Martin gave no heed at all. He covered his eyes with his hands and uttering a prolonged groan, cried thickly --
apparently to Phil -- "
And did you ever see a man dance on air! Ah, a hanging is a sight to catch the breath in your throat and
make an emptiness in a man's belly!"
http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=%22danced...Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases - Page 224
by Walter N. Trenerry - 1985 - 252 pages
...
he mounted the gallows saying coldly, “I bid you all good evening,” and danced
on air In the presence of some four hundred spectators. ...
http://animatematters.blogspot.com/2006_12_01...He made the leap and
danced on airWith all the grace of Robespierre.
He crossed the Styx; the farm is bought;
And all his railing's come to naught.
Yes, as a pendulum he swings,
While all the happy birdies sing.
The poor ol' Butcher of Baghdad
Has quite become a hanging chad.
some more google hits:
Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger - Chapter VI
They took a savage pleasure in telling me how I should come to dance on air at Cuckold's Haven, or, in other words, to the gallows, if I went on as I had ...
www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/youth/youngadult/MartinHydeTheDukesMessenger/chap6.html - 31k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Senate RPC: Declaration's Heroic Signers
There may have been some gallows humor in Congress on August 2. ... the different ways in which they might "dance on air" if British troops strung them up. ...
www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1998/founders.htm
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2,420 for "am Galgen baumeln"
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22am+Gal...Man sollte seinen Feinden vergeben, aber erst, wenn sie am Galgen baumeln. ...
p092.ezboard.com/fnewsquadfrm9.showMessage?topicID=819.topic
Da man nicht am Galgen baumeln wollte entschied man sich logischerweise für den Gebietsherrn zu arbeiten. Auch die Wilderer wurden immer gerissener und ...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnkleidung
Der irakische Präsident macht ebenfalls keinen Hehl daraus, dass er den früheren Diktator so schnell wie möglich am Galgen baumeln sehen möchte, ...
www.i-jeriko.de/category/gesellschaft-und-politik/
Als der damalige nigerianische Diktator Sunny Abacha den Schriftsteller Ken Saro-Wiwa im Jahre 1995 am Galgen baumeln liess, da reagierte Nelson Mandela, ...
oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/3615225/
... ohne einen zu verlieren, seine Tochter zur Frau bekommen werde; wenn aber am Abend ein einziges Stück fehle, müsse der Hasenhirte am Galgen baumeln. ...
www.sagen.at/texte/maerchen/maerchen_oesterreich/vorarlberg/hasenhueter.htm
Sie rauben, sengen, morden und betrügen im Namen der Gerechtigkeit, bis sie schließlich auf dem Marktplatz am Galgen baumeln. Die Revue beinhaltet auch den ...
derstandard.at/PDA/?id=2805561
In Littners Typoskript fand er den Bericht, wie dieser auf dem Marktplatz in Zbarac einen gelynchten Gendarmen namens Jetzt am Galgen baumeln sah. ...
www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/rezensionen/nl24/atze.htm
