65 examples of lock-up in sentences

The partition-wall should be boarded where the harness goes, with pegs to hang the various pieces of harness on, with saddle-trees to rest the saddles on, a cupboard for the brushes, sponges, and leathers, and a lock-up corn-bin.

We've no handcuffs here, and one of us has to go to the lock-up and the other to Washington street, where there's a woman yelling blue murder; and hurry up, please, sir.

Just as they were turning to go back to the dismal little grocery, which Dotty thought was more like a lock-up than ever, they met Mr. and Mrs. Parlin riding out in a carriage.

"'Where do you sleep?' "'Anywhere; last night in the lock-up, and I thought I'd get in there again, if I did that when you saw me.

They are a mean, malicious, murdering tribe,they are a supercilious, dogmatical, envious, suspicious company,knocking down their fellow-creatures in the name of Virtue for their own gratification,mere Mohawks, kept by family influence out of the lock-up.

I know none of your frequent visitors capacious and assimilative enough of your converse to have reproduced you so honestly, supposing you had left yourself in pledge in his lock-up house.

What do you think of him?" "I think he is worst of the lot," I answered, "and as there are now two votes against him, he must go to the lock-up.

I do not think he should be sent to the lock-up with common criminals.

The necessary security was immediately forthcoming, and Kumodini Babu found himself temporarily a free man, after enduring nearly forty-eight hours of unspeakable misery in the station lock-up.

There he applied for bail, which was of course refused, and he spent the night in the lock-up.

The Lock-up House is a sort of jail, built of stoneabout fifteen feet square, and originally designed as a place of confinement for slaves taken up by the patrol.

He had been talking with their master (the attorney of the plantation) about fixing one, who had offered them the old "lock-up house," if they would put it in order.

At length one of the men said, they did not want the school to be held in the "lock-up house."

Lock-up house at St. John's.

The Lock-up House is a sort of jail, built of stoneabout fifteen feet square, and originally designed as a place of confinement for slaves taken up by the patrol.

We fancied we could see in the marketers, as they walked in and out at the doorless entrance of the Lock-up House, or leaned against the Whipping Post, in careless chat, that harmless defiance which would prompt one to beard the dead lion.

He had been talking with their master (the attorney of the plantation) about fixing one, who had offered them the old "lock-up house," if they would put it in order.

At length one of the men said, they did not want the school to be held in the "lock-up house."

He shall go to the violonto the nearest lock-up.

Yes, he's aged fast, down in the lock-up; goin' fast to the end.

There churches were shut and bayonet-guarded because their ministers would not read the prayers ordered by the "oppressor," and there, for being on the street after nine at night, ladies of society, diners-out, had been taken to the lock-up and the police-court.

Tea was over, and lock-up time long past, when he stood excited, breathless, and without his jacket, at Dr. Rowlands' door.

The absence of the three boys from tea and lock-up had already excited general surmise, and Montagu's appearance, jacketless and wet, at the door of the boarders' room, at once attracted a group round him.

We should readily know it, we were informed, by the lock-up, a place of confinement for misbehavers, and generally the first building in Australian towns.

Near the church is an old cylindrical "lock-up.

65 examples of  lock-up  in sentences