The jailers crossed their staffs two paces in front of her.
Though it was the hardest thing he had ever done, Jacques refrained from looking until the woman and her two jailers had nearly reached the platform steps.
Ann remained seated, and rose only after thejailers nudged her with their curved staffs.
A friar moved up to take his place, and the jailers dropped their staffs.
During the night before his death, Maximilian asked his jailers for a pair of scissors.
Allow me to choose the time of my visits here, and forgive the poor jailers whom I have outwitted.
Even the jailers pitied this quietly endured, silent suffering, and remarked to each other that the prisoner seemed ill.
The Prison Fairy wept over the pallid face so bitterly that the jailers crept noiselessly out of the cell, that they might not see her grief.
The jailers timidly approached him with their petition for pardon.
From his jailers he accepted scornfully his daily rations of fish, ignoring the food while any one was by, but tearing it and gorging it savagely when left alone.
Cautiously he began to ask what means I should have taken, supposing my jailershad locked me up, in order to set the dungeon doors open and effect my flight.
Then I received food, and I requested my jailers to give me some of my books to read.
Still, uncanny or not, whatever might be the mystery of her jailers, they remained her jailers and nothing less.
This plain statement of the case from one of her jailers made her situation seem worse than ever.
The aspect of her two jailers seemed to her to be repellent in the extreme.
One of the cardinals visited the prison of the Bishop of Albi, where he found the jailers well spoken of, but was shocked with the condition of the prisoners.
The cardinals were moved to dismiss all the jailers and attendants except the chief, and to put the prison under the control of the Bishop of Carcassonne.
The count inquired whether any of the ancient jailerswere still there; but they had all been pensioned, or had passed on to some other employment.
It would require years to do again what I have done here, and the results would be instantly destroyed if our jailers knew we had communicated with each other.
He would have been discovered by the beating of his heart, if by any mischance the jailers had entered at that moment.
Yes; for my jailers might miss it to-morrow morning, and you do not want light for your conversation with Pompadour.
The jailers were the creatures of Danton and Robespierre, and any attempt to bribe them would have been dangerous in the extreme.
But I have already sounded him, and he said that there were so many guards and jailers that he feared that it would be impossible.
The jailers began hurrying them out of the building.
These were jailers waiting to bring in their prisoners.
About nine o'clock on the following morning one of the jailers came to summon Margaret and her father to be led before the court.
Their jailers only mocked them and would do nothing.
A cry of terror ran through the lines and the jailers hastened to bring the columns to the pontoons.
The jailers were sleeping in the corners, and the other prisoners, as it was Sunday, were amusing themselves with the rat, which ran from board to board, performing the most difficult tricks.
The convicts returned to their work, but soon after the weather became so bad that the jailers stopped work and formed the prisoners in columns to return them to the pontoons.
He was dragged by the jailers to the churchyard of the Castle d'If, and there buried.
The prisoners, the jailers and spectators laughed at its antics.
The streets were already thronged with a fierce and sanguinary mob, whose shouts of triumph were so vociferous that she asked one of her jailers whether they would tear her to pieces.
Her jailers had the barbarity to place their prisoner in an iron cage, in which she was fastened with iron rings and chains, one at the neck, another at the hands, and a third confining the feet.
Loiseleur and Massieu urged her to abjure; the former promising that if she consented she would, after abjuring, be taken from her English jailers and placed in keeping of the clergy.
Her jailers were more alarmed about her condition than she was herself, for were she to die a natural death, half the moral effect her enemies counted on obtaining by giving her the death of a sorceress and heretic would be lost.
She managed to squeeze herself between two beams of wood placed across an opening in her prison, and was on the point of leaving her dungeon tower when one of the jailers caught sight of her, and she was retaken.
He caused Perkin Warbeck to be given access to the Earl of Warwick in the Tower, and some of the jailerswere told to suggest an attempt at escape.
The jailers, and the friends and servants of the jailers of the Holy Father, boast very much of the ample liberty he enjoys, which he can use during his imprisonment for the regulation of the church and for performing his office as Pope.
His jailers as yet do not do him all the wrong they would wish, but are not able to do him.
The exodus was planned well, and carried out so discreetly, the nuns going in threes and fours at a time, that not a shadow of suspicion dawned on the employees--their jailers as they now considered them.
Seeing that his time had come, and that the government was determined to punish him with severity, Bruneau became alarmed, and offered his new jailers ten thousand francs to set him at liberty.
The attempted rising was crushed, the careless jailers were dismissed, the prisoner was placed in solitary and comfortless confinement, and the keeper of the seals commenced serious proceedings in order to bring him to trial.
One of these ladies saw Miss Cavell in prison a few days before the end, but by that time the secrecy and isolation from all advice had accomplished all that her jailers desired.
There was no time to ferret out any real damning testimony, and so thejailers of the English nurse fell back upon the method of attempting to convict her out of her own mouth.
All at once the jailers entered, and began calling the roll, which already had been done three times that day.
The stupefied jailers related how they had discovered her singing the praises of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jailers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
