At present it will be my duty to put you under a sentry's charge; and that it may be done in a way the least offensive to yourself, your prison, for the night at least, shall be this cabin.

"You would be ruined for life, and he would get seven years' penal servitude; and that is a sentence few gentlemen survive in the present day when prisons are slaughter-houses.

Its prison had become its tomb.

The prison was a real prison, indeed, but the turnkey sought to alleviate the prisoner's misery by every means in her power.

The prison was becoming a less startling image of desolate dreariness to him.

The Washington prison is a large three-story stone building, the front part of the lower story of which is occupied by the guard-room, or jail-office, and by the kitchen and sleeping apartments for the keepers.

Fie on thee, thou scurvy knave, That hast nought, and yet goes brave: A prison be thy deathbed, Or be hang'd all save the head.

The "new prison" is the Carcel, or jail, at the northern end of the Prado, near the fortress of La Punta.

The prison or worse was the doom of all truth-seekers in Campanella's age.

A PRISON Is the grave of the living, where they are shut up from the world and their friends; and the worms that gnaw upon them their own thoughts and the jailor.

Rather stop my breath, Strangle me with these cords; prison to me Is twenty deaths, I will have liberty.

Prison is not a good place, and it is not pleasant to have your pea-soup and your coffee, one after the other, in the same tin dipper; but they were soldiers, and they agreed that it would be absurd to make a grievance of things like that.

Those prisons under the leads where the heat was slow torturethis was the meaning of the masked gondoliers!

Ah, your prison and guillotine are able financiers: they raise, feed, and clothe an army, in less time than you can procure a tardy vote from the most complaisant House of Commons!Your, &c. March 17, 1794.

" The prison is the real maker of democracy.