When the jailor cried out, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Then the jailor being roused from sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drew his sword, going to destroy himself, supposing the prisoners had escaped.
Then the jailor told these words to Paul, That the magistrates had sent to set them at liberty: now therefore, said he, get ye out, and pursue your journey in peace.
The jailor with a great show of caution got out a bunch of keys and motioned them to follow.
She lowered her voice to a conspiratorial whisper and glanced apprehensively over her shoulder to see if the jailor were listening.
He has a daughter named Phoebe, whose heart and hand is being sought in vain by the grim and repulsive-looking Wilfred Shadbolt, who links the office of head jailor with the "assistant tormentorship.
The bargain is struck, and in a short time a shot is heard, and the jailor re-enters to declare that the escaped prisoner has been shot and drowned in the river.
Coming to "The Yeomen of the Guard" we find that Wilfred Shadbolt, with his anecdotes of the prison cells and the torture chamber, had a prototype in the jailor in "Annie Protheroe.
The consideration is that the jailor must declare that he shot Fairfax with an arquebus at night as he was attempting to swim over the Thames.
The constant vigilance of this antiquated scoundrel, with the superintendence of the officers of the guard, who were always at hand, prevented the jailor from befriending us as much as his heart dictated.
The jailor himself was a kind man, and rather of Union sentiments.
After the jailor had given their food to the inmates of the other rooms, he came back to ours.
Said thejailor to the captain, "Where shall I put him?
The lower story was occupied by the jailorand his family.
One morning our jailor came to our room, and asked us if we knew John Wollam.
They would wait till the jailor or some of the guard had finished reading a paper, and laid it down, and then slyly purloin it.
It was brought in by negroes, thejailor standing at the door.
The coarse food the jailor brought was eaten with such a relish as hunger only can impart.
And even the old jailorwould fret, and predict that evil would result from showing the Yankees so much indulgence.
The next morning, the jailor put me in the room I had formerly occupied, with the remainder of my companions.
The jailor afterward remarked that he might have known there was something the matter by their singing so mournfully.
One of the regular soldiers in the adjoining room overheard the officer of the guard telling the jailor that Colonel Lee had received another letter from the Secretary, ordering our immediate execution.
Thus saying, and after a few other words of little importance, the jailor departed.
The jailor told him the copy of the writ should be forthcoming.
There was no rush, no noise, and not a word was spoken until thejailor opened the door of my cell, and then a man in a black mask quietly said: "We must trouble you to go along with us.
While he spoke the heavy door of the prison opened, and a jailor entered with two large basins of boiled rice.
For a moment the Interpreter's look of surprise increased; then an indescribable smile lit up his swarthy features as he turned to the jailor and spoke a few words.
In order to redress this hardship, I applied to the justices of the county for a salary to the jailor in lieu of his fees.
There was no stir in the house; it seemed as if the jailor had deserted his charge, and left the prison with its wretched inhabitants to the mercy of the conflagration which was spreading towards them.
Mr. Mac-Morlan, and the captain (as the head jailor of a county jail is called in Scotland) would never forgie me.
At this moment the jailor made his appearance with a light.
At day-break his prison-door opens, and the jailor enters, holding in his hand a little slip of paper.
The jailor is empowered, should the slightest provocation be offered, to flog the prisoner, or to load his limbs so heavily with irons, that he scarce can move.
In the wall of the cell was a small aperture, by which the light might be made to stream in upon the prisoner, when the jailor did not wish to enter, simply by placing the lamp in an opposite niche in the passage.
There is no probability we shall dare risk a visit here 'twixt now and the time when we have made ready to carry him to old Mary's cabin, therefore you can count that your duties as jailor will hold you inside that cask until midnight.
How Uncle 'Rasmus may have viewed being left in the cabin to act the double part of jailor and helpless invalid, I know not.
There, one or the other of us must act as jailor all the while, until--I cannot guess when our duties may be ended.
He was confirmed in this belief by seeing his figure through the opening, but when another figure glided in, and the jailor retreated, locking the door behind him, he knew that his prison had received an unexpected guest.
He heard the key twisting in the rusted lock, the door swinging heavily open, and supposed the jailor was examining the cells before retiring to rest.
Full three months having elapsed since Jane's confinement commenced, on the first of November her jailor informed her that her trial would take place in Guildhall on the day but one following.
No answer being returned, the jailor waved his hand, and the levers were again turned.
Lawrence Nightgall, the chief jailor of the Tower.
The jailor started; and his angry ejaculations caused the poor creature to raise her head.
When her jailor visited her, he found her in the deepest affliction.
She had so won upon her jailor by her extraordinary piety, and by her gentleness and resignation, that he could scarcely offer her sufficient attention.
Without giving Cholmondeley time to reflect upon his imprudence, the jailor hurried him away, and he did not pause till he came to the head of the stairs leading to the torture-chamber.
The terror she exhibited at the approach of the jailor proved the dreadful usage she had experienced.
On the fourth day after her confinement, the jailorinformed her there was a person without who had an order from the queen to see her.
To all his menaces, reproaches, and entreaties, thejailor turned a deaf ear.
Without a moment's hesitation she arose, and was about to pass through the door when the jailor Jrerkpnbant ofimna -Jartc a pardon, ou ber map ta OirtaL Loulou.
Her story ended, Dudley declared his intention of seeking out the jailor without delay.
Conceiving from the savage expression of the jailor s countenance that he meditated some further act of cruelty, she uttered a loud shriek, and tried to avoid him.
But he returned no answer; and uttering an angry exclamation at his obstinacy, the jailor ordered him to be taken back to his cell, where he was thrown upon a heap of straw, and left without light or food.
But how slowly and with what a superfluity of precaution his jailor moved!
In his ear his jailor whispered, "That one's for you, sir, and dinna put off your clothes!
Their jailor was courtesy itself; but it was in their prison that they supped--a silent meal, and very plain.
The head jailor now made his appearance with the dresses for those who were in this chamber; these were Samarias, only different from the others, inasmuch as the flames were painted on them upwards instead of down.
The jailor pointed to a small bench, and intimated to Amine that she was to sit down.
Two hours passed away, and the jailor again entered, and summoned her to follow him.
No books or printed papers shall be admitted into any prison for the use of the prisoners, except by permission of the Superintendent, and the jailor shall keep a catalogue of all books and printed papers admitted into the prison.
It shall be the duty of the minister or instructor admitted to visit any prison, to communicate to the jailor any abuse or impropriety in the prison which may come to his knowledge, on pain of being prohibited from visiting the prison.
I did not however by any means apply constantly to the work I had undertaken, and my jailor betrayed various tokens of impatience.
Her jailor officiously followed her from place to place, and observed what she did for the present in silence.
The jailor looked at me with astonishment, and turning upon his heel, exclaimed, "Well done, my cock!
He quickly checked himself, and met his jailor (one of the troopers) with a smiling countenance as he entered and laid a loaf and a jug of water on the table.
The rattle of a musket outside told Jake that his jailor had not come alone.
Many times, after I had traveled forty or fifty miles to see them, I was denied the privilege by the jailor and the guards.
But public opinion was so strongly prejudiced against the Abolitionists that neither the jailor nor the sheriff would permit any of them to communicate with the prisoners.
Foot, lawyers at the time in full practice, they applied to the jailor for admission to consult with the negroes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jailor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
