Whilst endeavouring to obtain an interview with the viceroy's sister, Dona Isabella, he is discovered, apprehended, and thrown into one of the subterranean dungeons which extend under a considerable portion of the viceregal palace.
When Louis IX, commonly called Saint Louis, rebuilt his palace in the thirteenth century he constructed also his dungeons hard by.
The cells anddungeons of the Conciergerie, some of which might be seen and inspected as late as 1835, were horrible beyond belief.
The Greater and Lesser Chatelets were equally unhealthy and of dimensions too limited for their population, the walls too high, the dungeons too deep down in the bowels of the earth.
Speaking generally, all these towers were of four stories, with an underground basement each containing a number of dens and dungeons of the most gloomy and horrible character.
At length, after struggling bravely for nearly nine years he was removed from the lower dungeons to an upper floor and was permitted to exercise occasionally in the open air till death came, with its irresistible order of release.
The origin of its dungeons and oubliettes is lost in antiquity.
The "Bishops' Prison" is still shown at Loches, a different receptacle from the cages anddungeons occupied by Cardinal La Balue and the Bishop of Verdun.
Just below it are the round towers of the Martelet, dating from Louis XI, who placed within them the terrible dungeons he invariably kept filled.
Certain of these dungeons were close to the royal kitchens and were long preserved.
I have heard of a secret way from the level of the water into the cellars or dungeons of the house; but whether this be true I do not rightly know.
There is no lock upon the door from the underground passage to the moat; for what man would be so bold as find his way into the Castle by the grim dungeons which hold such terrible secrets?
I believe the time will come when we shall know too much to raise criminals--know too much to crowd those that labor into the dens and dungeons that we call tenements, while the idle live in palaces.
It is an effort to save and keep in repair the dungeons of the Inquisition for the sake of the beauty of the vines that have overrun them.
Then I will recover him," said Don Quixote, "even if he be shut up with him in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell.
They were torn from their families and thrown into dungeons where they were kept in terrific suspense for four months.
She groped her way into the glooms of prison dungeons to convey solace to the prisoner.
The dungeons in which Mathieu Dimonet still pined away, contained several other prisoners, Denis Peloquin of Blois, Louis de Marsac, gentleman of the Bourbonnais, and one of his cousins.
Accused by a Genevan refugee before the Inquisition of Lyons, as the author of these writings, Servetus was arrested, cast into the dungeons of Vienne, and condemned by Catholic judges to be burnt, from which he only escaped by flight.
Peter Berger of Bar-sur-Seine, burgess of Geneva, was seized at Lyons three days after the scholars of Lausanne, whom he rejoined in the dungeons and preceded to martyrdom.
It was in the gloomy dungeons of this castle that King John starved to death twenty-two prisoners of war, many of whom were among the first nobility of Poictu, victims to the cruelty of a barbarous sceptered tyrant!
The dark ages were still a matter of actuality in the dark dungeons of Constantinople in 1918.
They were worse in this room than in any other place I have seen in Turkey, not excepting the lowest dungeons of the military prison, where they breed by the billion.
But to the men, who starved in dungeons of the interior, they came as a very present help in time of need.
And it was but shortly after that Captain Chaloner's ship on its way to Virginia was seized by the Spaniards in the West Indies, and the crew sent to languish in the dungeons of Seville or condemned to the galleys.
Each return of the fleet from Porto Bello or Vera Cruz brought with it English prisoners from Cartagena and other Spanish fortresses, who were lodged in the dungeons of Seville and often condemned to the galleys or to the quicksilver mines.
What cleaves in twain the despot's chain, and makes his gyves and dungeons vain?
He was never tired though, when he could snatch a rare holiday from his professional labours, of exploring the dungeons and chimney recesses and awful holes and crannies.
There are dungeons beneath the level of the roadway; over the archway is the large room where the sessions used to be held, with other rooms on either side.
He saw leaving the dungeons the 'victims of arbitrary power, saved at last from rack and torture and from living tombs.
In 1789, these dungeons on the ground floor of the fortress, with windows looking on the moats, were no longer reserved, as under Louis XV.
At the time of Necker's first ministry, the use of these dungeons had been abolished altogether.
The non-existence of these dungeons and holes with skeletons was too great a shock to settled beliefs.
For thirty-five years I meditated in dungeons on the audacity and insolence of despots; with loud cries I was calling down vengeance, when France in indignation rose up as one man in one sublime movement and levelled despotism with the dust.
Mr Bull, the surgeon, stated that he was by contract excused from attending in the dungeonsany prisoners that should have the gaol-fever.
Hearing that a St. James was in the dungeons of the Tombs, a convicted forger, he at once knew that it must be his brother.
Do you realize that you are making our home dark and gloomy as the dungeons of the Inquisition?
It was a good five years since he had looked upon its dungeons and its lace-work.
The dark slave-dungeons open, and hath borne Their inmates into day: But our poor slave in vain Turns to the Christian shrine his aching eyes; Its rites will only swell his market price, And rivet on his chain.
In another of the dungeons was a second figure, of a man in chains, standing upright, but fettered so cruelly that, if it had been a living human being, the agony occasioned by the bonds would have been excruciating.
Our guides (an officer and a soldier) afterwards conducted us down several flights of steps into the dungeons of the Spielberg, and, with a lighted torch, led the way through those infamous abodes of the cruelty of years gone by.
The great chapel was garnished with the fetters taken from the dungeons of Malaga, in which the Moors confined their Christian captives.
He saw thousands of men, under the orders of priests, building dungeonsfor their fellow-men.
They squeezed the heads of some with knotted cords till they pierced their brains, while they threw others into dungeons swarming with serpents, snakes, and toads.
The massive gates of the gloomy inquisition dungeons are open.
They man their very dungeons for their masters, Lest godlike Liberty, the common foe, Should enter in, and they be judged hereafter Accomplices of freedom!
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