They might burn with fever or waste their feeble strength in dysentery, it made no difference to their brutal jailers.

I was to be shut up with him for a year, and he was not likely to prove a cheerful jailer.

of account for whiskey, covering extra demijohn to corrupt jailer.

It was very well for her to declare, with her arms round his neck, that even should he be dragged away to prison, she would still be his true wife, and that she would wait,in sorrow indeed and mourning, but still with patience,till the cruel jailers and the harsh laws had restored him to her.

"At the end of this corridor there is a doorthe jailer's door.

But these prisoners, on their release, marching through the streets caught sight of two of their erstwhile jailers walking in freedom and security and going about then daily avocations as if there was no war.

Here comes an expert rover of the forest who will be your immediate jailer.

We talked with the old schoolmistress in Cunliffe Street till it was "high twelve" at noon, and then the kind jailer of learning's little prison-house let all her fretful captives go.

Having denuded himself of his weapons, John also passed on, but not before he had shaken his fist ominously in the face of the little jailer.

The staff en masse wrote to the mistaken jailer, and at last we saw the prisoners return safe and sound, parodying in our presence with words and pencils the famous prisons of Silvio Pellico." [Footnote 1: Correa, op.

"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.

When a sufficient interval had elapsed for the stalwart jailer to have eaten his prisoner, had he been so minded, the Recorder, looking up from behind the Times, which he appeared to be reading, asked in a very stern voice why the prisoner was not "put up.

And on a luckless day it thus befell About their surly jailer's wonted hour To bring them food, he enter'd not their cell, But bolted fast their prison's outer door.