hanging matter

'And dead or no, either way this is a hanging matter, as well you know.

He could never save her now; putting on an enemy uniform was a hanging matter.

While nearly all of us agree that cheating is wrong, few believe it is a hanging matter.

That, no doubt, now, is some amateur in hanging matters."

In plain fact, it was a hanging matter, and Stephen literally had a rope round his brother's neck.

All these are hanging matters, I warn you.

It's a hanging matter to damage London Bridge, or to destroy any tree not one's own.

Yet it was not a hanging matter.

And then they took us, and nobody could prevent without turning it into a hanging matter, and God knows we never wanted that.

To a pragmatist, such as I proudly claim to be, It was difficult to see why this issue should become a hanging matter.

'It was a hanging matter if we'd got him.'

It's a hanging matter this time."

This is a hanging matter."

No one stayed to talk at the window, no doubt a hanging matter; but they talked to their relief, as if they meant to be heard.

This money is no good to you as it is and is a hanging matter if it is found."

A Hanging Matter (1994)

"They're hanging matters, Beth."

This was a hanging matter, and Mohammed had resigned without ceremony from the Imperial Army and reached the Portuguese border by a series of forced marches.

I have not read for a long time and I make it out badly, but I shall manage to make it out, as it's a hanging matter.

It is also the setting for David Donachie's book A Hanging Matter (ISBN 0-330-32862-X), a murder and nautical mystery.

From many descriptions of larceny the law expressly took away the benefit of clergy: to steal a horse, or a HAWK, or woollen cloth from the weaver, was a hanging matter.

As Keyser's troopers dismounted and drew their sabres, Tom went on, "But, Stephanus, you warn those ruffians of yours to leave my serving girls alone, otherwise it will really be a hanging matter."

In such a case better to accept whatever penalties the Church might impose, however harsh, for theft and deceit, rather than fall into the hands of the secular law,my law,' said Hugh firmly, 'where murder is a hanging matter.

Now, when she got her wits back, and remembered, she would be torn in two between terror for his life, since this killing was indeed a hanging matter, and hope for his escape, since thus far he was still at liberty.