For which offence he straight was thrown Into a dungeon dark and deep; Where, when he thought his wrongs upon, 190 He bitterly did wail and weep: Yet like a knight of courage stout, At length his way he digged out.
She waited for that day, as the prisoner does for the hour of his release; but like him she knew that a premature attempt to escape from her dungeon would bring her only ruin and death, and not freedom.
I shall no more tremble before this malicious enemy, who goes about among my people with his hypocritical tongue, while I, tortured with pain, sit in the dungeon of my sickroom.
The pit and the dungeon were the best schools at which Joseph ever graduated.
Burning of Bibles As Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes under King Zedekiah showed their contempt for God by burning the writings of Jeremiah, and confining the prophet in a dungeon (Jer.
Then was the narrow door of his dungeon opened, and he was removed to a more cheerful place--to a place where the blessed air and light were freely admitted, and where the voices of human beings were around him.
But he would hush it with the thought, that he could not be happier were he at liberty than in his dungeon cell.
And as for the nurse, the Queen said she must be locked up in the dungeon at once for telling lies.
As he was looking out of one of the windows of the castle he distinctly heard Vox Angelica's sigh coming from the lake, and he at once understood that she was imprisoned in some dungeon underneath the lake.
Are you brought out of the dark dungeon of this world into Christ?
Edwin now for the first time proposed removing his friend from the dungeon to the haunted chamber, which no one dared to approach, and which we before mentioned as having an entrance from the South tower.
Their parents, too, might shut them in a dungeonfor their disobedience.
Werner was taken back to his dungeon where he awaited sentence, but no sentence was announced to him–whatever judgment was passed he was never told what it was.
But after a few weeks waiting he was taken from the dungeon and lodged in the Stadtvogtei without an explanation being given to him in any way.
He imagined himself condemned to the dungeon or sent back to the trenches where three of his brothers had been killed.
He was nine years of age when His father, to Whom even then He was devotedly attached, was thrown into the dungeon in Ṭihrán.
The dungeon was wrapped in thick darkness, and Our fellow-prisoners numbered nearly a hundred and fifty souls: thieves, assassins and highwaymen.
As to the dungeon in which this Wronged One and other similarly wronged were confined, a dark and narrow pit were preferable.
A man who tries to worship God without turning to His Manifestation is like a man in a dungeon trying through his imagination to revel in the glories of the sunshine.
That gracious, ill-starred creature shut in a dungeon as a criminal, and given up to fearful torments!
Without further explanation, I was thrown into a dungeon belonging to the governor of the mines, who stood by with insulting joy to see me chained to a large stone in my horrid prison.
The door of my dungeonwas then locked and barred, and I was left alone in perfect darkness.
Some rain had fallen, and the sun had not been long set without doors; but for the last hour and a half the dungeon had been dark, and illuminated only by a single taper.
The interior of the dungeon was as dark as pitch,--so dark, that there was not even that greyish appearance which obscurity frequently wears to eyes accustomed to it.
I know that the master of this house is of dark complexion; for I have caught a glimpse of him when he has visited my dungeon below.
During her incarceration I never spoke to her save through the trap of her dungeon door; and since she has been an inmate of the house I have not visited her.
In three minutes more the little party entered the dungeon which had so lately been the prison-house of Old Death: and there what a dreadful spectacle met their eyes!
Each dungeon was plainly but comfortably furnished; and every evening they were supplied with a sufficiency of food for four-and-twenty hours.
With these words, he stood back from the door, which Wilton opened; and the two inmates of the dungeon received supplies of wholesome food and moral or instructive books.
Here he soon made himself acquainted with the passages and entrances of the stronghold, more especially with the geography of the dungeon tower.
By little and little the prisoner had discovered that no amount of outcry or disturbance in the dungeon could be heard without; of this he had satisfied himself by a series of experiments.
The weather was very hot; even in a dungeon its inmate could tell that the summer sun was glowing bright and fierce without.
And Chastelâr in his dungeon was preparing for death by reflection on the pitiless beauty of her in whose face he would never look again.
My heart is a dungeon of darkness, Where I shut them from breaking a rule; My frown is sufficient correction, My love is the law of the school.
So Belehwan the froward abode king in his father's room and his affairs prospered, what while the young Melik Shah lay in the underground dungeon four full-told years, till his charms faded and his favour changed.
So Belehwan granted them this and imprisoned the boy in an underground dungeon and straitened him.
So he bade bring him forth of the underground dungeon and caused him draw near to him and saw his case.
At last, one day, I heard commotion at my dungeon door; it opened, and Gabord entered and closed it after him.
The Colonel's tragic harangue was not without its effect in these dungeon passages, and the old gentleman seemed to enjoy the shiver which he saw involuntarily agitate me.
I put my feet forward cautiously, step by step, my hand on the wall; and moved around my dungeon till I came to the door again.
He came to the deepest and darkest dungeon of all, and there he opened the door, and went in and hid himself.
The king's son was playing all alone in his dungeon with the mice who brought him food from the palace larder, when the queen and her son were thrown down to him fast bound, as though he were as dangerous as a den of lions.
Now a dungeon is a hard thing to get out of, but it is easy enough to get into.
I had got out of the dungeonby using the key of Promise; but the weather was foul, and the giants caught me at that spot.
He claimed that by my repeated failures he had the right to possession of my soul, and he said he was going to carry me to his dungeon and club me to death, just as he almost did Bunyan's pilgrim, Christian.
But while these insidious attacks were very hard to ward off, I had definitely promised Immanuel down in the dungeon that if he would get me out I would never be caught in company with Giant Discourager again.
But I was in Giant Despair's dungeontwo weeks at that.
He was about to regain his dungeon when he suddenly paused: "The deuce!
During two days which passed like two centuries, Fandor had been held prisoner in his dungeon where death awaited him.
The great dreamer soon escaped from Doubting Castle to the Delectable Mountains; but for the poet, the dungeon bars remained unloosed until the final summons came to the everlasting hills.
On this information, De Jeane came and told me to get up and walk to the dungeon from whence I came.
I will soon alter your tone; here take the damn'd rebel to the dungeon again, and let him pray to God to have mercy on his soul, for I will soon fix his body between heaven and earth and every scoundrel like him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dungeon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dungeon; hole; keep; prison; tower
