Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs? Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Comman...der, there is no civilization. Shears: That's just my point. Here, there is no civilization. Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to sa...ve the trouble of preparing a drop for him. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off?" He was told to jump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind)... To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon where we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing ...anyone who comes between them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »