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Example sentences for "close prisoner"

  • There for months he was kept a close prisoner, loaded with chains.

  • The Princess Elizabeth may remain a close prisoner in her own apartments.

  • Since that time Courtenay had been a close prisoner in the Tower.

  • During all this time, Jane was kept a close prisoner in the Brick Tower, and neither allowed to hold any intercourse with her husband, nor to correspond with him.

  • The Monarchy has been overthrown; Sonia is a close prisoner in the Castle at Blaenau, and her fate hangs in the balance.

  • But as far as the Commissioner is able to learn, the lady is to all intents and purposes being held a close prisoner.

  • Egelwin, the good Bishop of Durham, being found in the Camp, was sent a close prisoner to Abingdon, where he died shortly after of a broken heart.

  • Having no money to pay for his ransom, and his brother having none to give or lend him, Geoffroy was sent into the fens and kept there as a close prisoner.

  • So poor Sir Thomas Overbury is kept a close prisoner?

  • I am about to place you in the service of poor Sir Thomas Overbury, who is a close prisoner in the Tower, you know.

  • So I told him that no one should wait upon a close prisoner in my custody but my own servants.

  • Vault; and so without more ado, laid as much iron on me, as there is in some Smiths shops, and confined me close Prisoner to the Dungeon.

  • Upon this sight Fancy me thought suggested to me that her money was as already as surely mine as if I had already confin’d it close Prisoner in my leathern dungeon.

  • Confin’d I was within his house, lockt up close Prisoner in a Chamber, till that he could acquaint my mother with what had past.

  • He was brought many times before archbishop Arundel, and at last committed a close prisoner, where he died, but in what manner cannot now be ascertained.

  • Arrived at court, she was made a close prisoner for a fortnight, without knowing who was her accuser, or seeing any one who could console or advise her.

  • He had sufficient time allowed him to meditate equally upon his own blindness and the foresight of the youth, while his mutineers, for fifteen days kept him a close prisoner on board his own brigantine!

  • For fifteen days was Laudonniere kept a close prisoner by the conspirators on board of one of his own vessels, attended by one of their own number, and denied all intercourse with his friends and people.

  • During the past two months, Mr. Packard had locked her up in her own house, fastened the windows outside, and carried the key to the door, and made her a close prisoner.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brave soldier; close action; close behind; close column; close confinement; close enough; close proximity; close relation; close resemblance; close upon; close vessels; closed door; closed eyes; closely bound; closely connected; closely related; closely resembling; closely veiled; closer union; little child shall lead; must stop; pale blue; still more; stood alone; strong resemblance; table manners