hanging offence

The Salesman had broken his father's heart, and that was a hanging offence.

Giving information to the enemy is a hanging offence."

It was a hanging offence then and the culprits were understandably nervous.

She regarded divorce as a sadness, not a hanging offence."

One: it's a hanging offence to even think of installing weps on a civilian ship.

For a highlander to be in possession of projectile weapons such as these was a hanging offence.

Not really a hanging offence so far.

You said that exaggerated lisping is a hanging offence and I only do it to get attention.'

It was an envied privilege but a hanging offence to forge or frank falsely.

"It is a hanging offence for a clansman."

Pinching from yer mates is a hanging offence, understood?

Anyway, a man can't really enjoy his declining years if there are a number of hanging offences lurking in his background.

If I'm found wi' Sir Fletcher's property, that's a hanging offence.

Hanging offence to lose your rifle."

Four years away, and now a husband and father, and he had committed a hanging offence in his first moments in Eldacre.

"It ain't a hanging offence," Craster blustered.

'And I've been pulling off hanging offences while you've been sulking in your room, drinking away your skills.'

That's a hanging offence.'

Stealing infected goods was a hanging offence, and a "foul" hangman was employed for the purpose of executing offenders on the muir.

Having been sentenced to death in the mid-Morrissey period for the hanging offence of reinventing laddishness (see The Farm, Flowered Up), they bowl on stage like men released from the Tower.

Mr Major said that Mr Mates's decision to give fugitive millionaire Asil Nadir a watch inscribed, 'Don't let the buggers get you down,' was 'not a hanging offence.'

(The letter complained about Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" and its drawing upon life with Marilyn Monroe: "What he has done with such vulgarity to Marilyn Monroe should be a hanging offence.

When I needed to be shown the routines at the line-dancing class - as I was travelling alone I hoped it would be a good way to meet people - I felt I had committed a hanging offence.

But it was not that which made me doubtful about my first impression: after all, sodomy is a hanging offence with us and a matter of burning alive with some others, whereas it is a joke in this country, as it was in ancient Greece.