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Example sentences for "hard labor"

  • About 1807 he was sentenced to twenty years of hard labor, but he managed to escape during a journey of the chain-gang from Paris to Toulon, and he returned to Paris.

  • Chaussard the elder was condemned to twenty years' hard labor, was sent to the galleys, and later was pardoned by the Emperor.

  • DURUT (Jean-Francois), a criminal whom Prudence Servien helped convict to hard labor by her testimony in the Court of Assizes.

  • He was sent for trial and condemned to hard labor, I believe.

  • Whenever fines are not paid, the convicted party should be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor at the rate of one-half day for each dollar of the fine imposed; and a sentence at hard labor should be the first option of the court!

  • In 1884 the case of Jasper Yarbrough and others who had been sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary in Georgia for preventing a colored man from voting for a member of Congress, was brought to the U.

  • Failing, he may be sent to prison or penitentiary for not less than six months' hard labor, or until he gives such bond, but none of this is obligatory on the court.

  • The penalty is, for the first offense imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary not more than fifteen years, and for each subsequent offense not more than thirty years.

  • I went back to jail and two days afterwards was brought up for sentence which was--"ten years at hard labor in the State prison at Trenton.

  • Anything light; I am not used to hard labor," I replied.

  • Then again, the First Hall-man could have taken it all away from him by threatening to dismiss him and fire him back to hard labor in the prison-yard.

  • Then next morning we would be put to hard labor in the prison-yard.

  • I had to stay in with the "push," or do hard labor on bread and water; and to stay in with the push I had to make good with my pal.

  • It was up to us to keep order; if we didn't, we'd be fired back to hard labor, most probably with a taste of the dungeon thrown in.

  • The punishment is confinement at hard labor not to exceed five years.

  • Describe the effect produced by his "Hard Labor" and "An Eccentric Master.

  • The evidence was conclusive, the man pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to nine months at hard labor.

  • On this new evidence the prisoner was sentenced to twelve months at hard labor.

  • The story told by Radisch is peculiarly a sad one, as the money lost by him in the crash of the Fireproofing company represented the savings of a lifetime of hard labor.

  • It was proclaimed by the agent that the maker of this poison would be imprisoned for six months, at hard labor, in the guard-house.

  • Hard labor added to this sentence, it is hoped, may at length have the effect of breaking up this absurd superstition.

  • A mule 36 years of age was as strong, enduring, and performed as hard labor, as any one in the caravan.

  • Old horses, or such as are put to hard labor, will do much better if their food be given in the form easiest of digestion.

  • When put to hard labor, grain ought always to accompany hay in some form.

  • For a moment or two, after she spread it out upon the table, she looked at the many pieces to be wrought up into a well-finished whole, and thought of the hours of hard labor it would require to accomplish the task.

  • Much ingenuity is shown in their construction, being so adjusted as to be sent up or down by a person on either floor, or by one on the platform, who, going or stopping at will, thus saves an immense amount of hard labor.


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