A week after his first arrest Carcel was examined.
But he spent three weeks within the walls and we have to thank his indomitable spirit for a glimpse into the gloomy recesses of the Carcel de la Corte, the chief prison, at that time, of the capital of Spain.
Borrow when in the "Carcel de la Corte" renewed his acquaintance with one, Balseiro, whom he had met in a low tavern frequented by thieves and bull fighters on a previous visit to Madrid.
The former was a kind of habeas corpus, under which a person had to be produced before it, either to be liberated on bail or to be confined in the carcel de manifestados--a special prison over which even the king had no jurisdiction.
He had caught the jail fever, which had long raged in the Carcelde la Corte, where I was imprisoned.
About six months after this event, I was imprisoned in the Carcel de la Corte, at Madrid, and there I found Aurora, who was in durance for defrauding the widow.
The Carcel de la Corte, where I now was, though the principal prison of Madrid, is one which certainly in no respect does credit to the capital of Spain.
The alguazils conducted me across the Plaza Mayor to the Carcel de la Corte, or prison of the court, as it is called.
The alguazils conducted me across the Plaza Mayor to the Carcel de la Corte, or prison of the court, as it is called.
And, were it not for Caciquismo, all evil-doers would be speedily apprehended by the Guardia Civil, tried under the alcaldes, and incarcerated in the Carcelde la Corte or the Presidio of Ceuta.
A Spanish criminal may be captured, tried before a magistrate and all; but if he be one in good standing with the caciques, never is he sent to the Carcel de la Corte or Ceuta.
It was commonly coupled with imprisonment--the "carcel y abito" usually went together and commutation covered both.
These appear to be similar to the carcel de familiares and, in all of them, confinement was held not to inflict the indelible stain of the secret prison.
Even the prison, subsequently guarded so jealously, was not as yet known as the carceles secretas, but as a carcel publica.
He adds that, when astrologers spontaneously denounce themselves, they are not thrown into the secret prison but into the carcel de familiares or are given their own houses or the city as a prison.
However, during the last five or six weeks of that term of court I would be pretty sure to find on my desk every two or three days, on opening court in the morning, a notice like this: Carcel Provincial de Samar, I.
Retiring to the dining-saloon, which is brilliantly illuminated with carcel lamps, I commenced this journal.
These saloons, brilliantly lighted with carcel lamps, look far more gorgeous and imposing by night than by day.
Whilst Borrow was in theCarcel de la Corte, a grave complication had arisen in connection with the misguided Lieutenant Graydon.
At the Carcel de la Corte he found the notorious and immense Gitana, Aurora, who had fallen into the hands of the Busne for defrauding a rather foolish widow.
It is by no means certain that Borrow was anxious to leave the Carcel de la Corte, even with the apologies of Spain in his pocket.
As the carcel hour consumes 42 grammes, it consequently amounts to 0.
As the hectowatt, the mean price of which is 15 centimes, gives approximately 3 carcels, the price of the carcel will, consequently, be 5 centimes.
The carcelis consequently obtained with 13 watts and its net cost is 0.
This represents the light produced for one hour by 10 wax candles, or, better still, it is the illuminating power given by the combustion of 42 grammes of pure colza oil for one hour in what is called a carcel lamp.
Under such conditions, the carcel would cost no more than 0.
As the price of a cubic meter is 30 centimes, the carcel will cost 0.
The first Spanish book with woodcuts of any artistic merit with which I am acquainted is an edition of Diego de San Pedro's Carcel d'Amor, printed at Barcelona in 1493.
Another edition of the Carcel d'Amor, with the same woodcuts, was printed at Burgos in 1496 by Fadrique Aleman.
She is in the Carcelde la Corte--to-morrow they take 'er to the Audiencia about that assassination.
Judge: "Did not the Englishman pay for your lodging in the Carcel de la Corte?
Simultaneously with this there came a change in the name, and the carcel perpetua was known as the casa de la peniténcia or de la misericórdia.
Carcel in 1800, is still to some extent used in France.
Argand's original burner is the parent form of innumerable modifications, all more or less complex, such as the Carcel and the moderator.
A little later Carcel still further improved the Quinquet lamp by adapting a clock movement that forced the oil to rise to the wick, so that it was no longer necessary to have the burner and the reservoir separated by a tube.
If I had Rojas for a chief instead of Alvarez, I'd arrest Mendoza with my own hand, and I wouldn't be afraid to take him to the carcel through the streets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carcel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
