11 Metaphors for imprisonments

Some weeks after, the claimant of the crown was really arrested; but exile, and not imprisonment was his doom.

The imprisonment and threatened execution of his cousins, Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici, was a flagrant mistake.

Charlie Jamieson had about decided that his imprisonment was the result of a conspiracy in which Farmer Weeks, from Bessie's home town, Hedgeville, was mixed up with a Mr. Holmes, a rich merchant of the city.

She has not only open hostility to fear, but treachery, which is far worse; and she declares that "a perpetual imprisonment in a solitary tower on the sea-shore would be a less cruel fate than that which she daily endures from the wickedness of her enemies and the weakness of her friends.

Your friend, who called for me, told me that you were a prisoner, and that your imprisonment was the consequence of the wager which it fell to me to decide.

Six months imprisonment, and a fine of one thousand dollars was the legal penalty for aiding him.

For I was not altogether without hopes that my imprisonment might be an awakening to the saints in this country, therefore I could not tell well which to choose; only I in that manner did commit the thing to God.

He said, 'you are not safe a moment; there is no hope but in flight; avoid the main road, and get to the colony if you can; if you succeed, go to A. Steward; he is an upright man and will never betray you for money,' And here I am: if I am arrested, six months imprisonment, three hundred dollars fine, and the forfeiture of my father's valuable and favorite horses, will be my portion.

He concluded that solitary imprisonment for years, in a gloomy dungeon, must be a terrible punishment indeed.

Imprisonment in a public jail was rare, the custom of bail being in general use.

Of two things one: either secret imprisonment is an indispensable and good thing; or, it is odious.

11 Metaphors for  imprisonments