438 examples of jailer in sentences

I noticed a change in my jailer's behaviour at this time.

Then the idea of an escape occurred to me, and as I had some proficiency in carpentry, I decided to obtain tools by proposing to make some chairs for the jailer.

In despair he went to the prison, and asked humbly for a night's lodging, but the jailer told him that was impossible unless he got arrested first.

This man one day overcame his jailer, locked him in his cell, ran into the hall above, and threw himself from a window into the lake, struck a rock, and was killed instantly.

" S.B. Murphy, jailer, Irvington, Ga.

" S.B. Tuston, jailer, Adams county, Mi.

" William Baker, jailer, Shelby county, Ala., in the "Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser," Oct. 5, 1838.

"Absconded, a colored boy, named Peter, lame in the right leg." N.M.C. Robinson, jailer, Columbus, Georgia, in the "Columbus (Ga.)

" J.A. Brown, jailer, Orangeburg, South Carolina, in the "Charleston Mercury," July 18, 1838.

" S.B. Turton, jailer, Adams Co. Miss.

" S.B. Turton, jailer Adams Co. Miss.

It was M. Dedet, the chief jailer.

The jailer snapped his teeth and narrowed his brows in a hard stare.

"You'll have to excuse me," said the jailer gruffly, seeing that she did not take his hint.

Adam, a bailiff, a jailer.

and that in this desert, where he had neither persecutor nor jailer to fear, he would find a prison, a dungeon!

She felt abandoned, forsaken, not pausing to reflect that now she had only what she had demanded of her late companion,guardian, she now hastily called him, and not jailer.

Are you to be my new jailer?

You declare yourself to be my new jailer.

What can you possibly think yourself to be, but my new jailer?" "I'm not so sure.

I assert nothingexcept that I'm going to be not your Jailer, but your keeper.

You had then chosen a new jailer.

But as soon as I left, I began to think it over, and I resolved to follow after you, not as a jailer but as a friend.

I fancy that will suit Washington as well as to detain Captain Carlisle as my jailer any longer.

Are you not my jailer?'

438 examples of  jailer  in sentences