Mrs. Jewkes has thought fit to give me an airing, for three or four hours, this afternoon; and I am a good deal better and should be much more so, if I knew for what I am reserved.
Two were sentenced to transportation for life; one to transportation for ten years; and the remainder to be imprisoned for one year, and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction, one month in solitary confinement.
Oliver Mankell, sentenced by Colonel Gregory to three months' hard labour, has been in Canterstone Jail two days.
After committing him for three months' hard labour, the Colonel added-- "During your sojourn within the walls of a prison you will have an opportunity of retrieving your reputation.
A Czech named Jarý, who was condemned to twelve years' hard labour, came out with consumption contracted through the rigour of his imprisonment.
The latter was discharged for want of proofs, but the editor Spatny was sentenced to fourteen years' hard labour.
The site secured under the provisions of the 'Hard Labour Bill' was for some reason rejected; and Bentham was almost in despair.
Buffaloes six years old are considered in the prime of life for beginning work, and will continue at hard labour, when well pastured and bathed, for another six years.
I order you to the same term of hard labour at the Royal Gaol with the [98] others.
Aksenov was sentenced to be beaten with the knout, and to be sent to hard labour.
He sighed, and said: "For my sins have I passed twenty-six years at hard labour.
Or, again, to get three months' hard labour is more pleasantly described as getting thirteen clean shirts, one being served out in prison each week.
In Russia, where capital punishment for common-law offences was abolished more than a century ago, murderers are condemned tohard labour for a period of years, after which they are settled in Siberia.
Manduca speaks of a man, advanced in years, who had just completed a long term of hard labour, and finding himself without means of subsistence, killed without any cause an old friend of his childhood.
Hard labour," Mr. Horsley remarks, "is such that no prisoner could get a living outside if he did not work harder.
It recommended day cells or rooms for regular labour, which should be compulsory upon all transports and prisoners sentenced to hard labour, the work being constant and suitable, with certain hours of relaxation and for food and exercise.
Accordingly due provision was made for the enforcement of hard labour on all prisoners sentenced to it, and for the employment of all others.
He was, however, again arrested for picking a pocket in Drury Lane Theatre, and sentenced to three years' hard labour on board the hulks in the Thames.
David James Dignum was convicted in 1777 of pretending to sell places under Government, and sentenced to hard labour on the Thames.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard labour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
