It was the cruel resolution of his jailors to take the boy from his father on the very morning [December 11] when Louis was to undergo an interrogatory before the Convention.
The next day the jailors entered her cell, and ordered her to bare her feet, and follow them.
The Grand Inquisitor rang a bell; the jailors entered, and Amine was led back to her dungeon.
Amine and the others condemned being arrayed in these dresses, remained in the chambers, for some hours before it was time for the procession to commence, for they had been all summoned up by the jailors at about two o'clock in the morning.
In vain did jailors and soldiers try to deceive his tiny companion; she would not obey their voices, and refused the tempting bait from their hand.
Neither of the prisoners was entrusted with knives and forks, but the jailors cut up their food and carried it to their mouths.
And therefore are they not of like fashion as those the other jailors use, but yet of like effect, and as painful in feeling as those.
Heavily fettered, Mr. Judson crawled to the prison door, but after they had spoken a few words the jailors roughly drove her away.
By paying the jailors a sum of money she managed to get him removed to an open shed in the prison enclosure.
Schehl's companions died and were thrown through the window into the court yard, after the jailors had taken from the corpses whatever they could use.
Now the jailors were called and had to deliver everything which they had taken from their prisoners; unfortunately, Schehl's clarinette was not among the articles that were returned.
In a few minutes, John Richardson, the police officer from Scotland, made his appearance, accompanied by the two jailors and turnkey; a terrific sight to Haggart!
The immediate interference of thejailors prevented a continuance of this disgraceful scene, and the wretched convicts were once again removed to separate apartments.
He was accompanied by the Earl of Pembroke, and Cholmondeley who was muffled in the jailors cloak.
But when any of the jailorsbeheld her, they fled, supposing her a supernatural being.
The jailors declared that they were worn to death with the continual turning of the keys; yet they did their work very willingly--from no great feeling of compassion, perhaps, but for the golden rewards which were sure to follow.
They were quickly removed by two under-jailors and their chief.
But for his chains the chief would certainly have given his jailors some trouble.
A few hours after Amine had been in the dungeon, the jailors entered: without speaking to her they let down her soft silky hair, and cut it close off.
The jailors declared, indeed, that these were the only cells, but a careful search showed a door in the rock.
On arriving at the governor's room, Captain Percival was placed in an easy chair, and the jailors left.
You know what these jailors are: they are the creatures of the worst men of Francesco's government.
The jailors declared that these had never been used in their time, and, they believed, never before.
You had better accompany me round, sir," Frank said, "and see that thejailors open all the doors and give me every facility.
Four of the jailors now entered; one of them carried a stretcher, another had a bottle of excellent wine and four large glasses, which he filled and handed to the prisoners.
At last, however, the daylight began to dawn, and he heard his jailors mewing and purring together as if in council, and then all was silent all around the pen.
Those orders, however, were not attended to, and the brutal jailors amused themselves with the sufferings of the martyrs, and fed them with food which the soldiers rejected.
Later in the day, he dropped into the frame of mind in which he was after his sentence, and willingly acknowledged to his jailors that he was guilty, though beyond that he declined to satisfy their curiosity.
Some, whose curiosity was aroused by the unusual pallor of the prisoner, wished to follow, but the jailors closed the great doors of the courtyard.
On reaching the pavement he recoiled with a convulsive movement: the jailors pulled him forward.
They turned their prisons into minsters, and the coarse pagan jailors and German guards were amazed when they heard those abodes of misery ringing with sweet voices and the holy melodies of unknown songs.
The jailors noticed the tumult of joy which hailed his presence, and saw that he was some great leader among the Christians.
One morning he was awoke by sounds as of thunder, in spite of a tiny ray of sunlight filtering through his loophole; hearing the jailors in the corridors near, he understood the mystery.
From words now and then dropped by hisjailors he could guess at the fluctuations of his fate.
The jailors gave him water, but whole months passed without anyone entering his cell.
The jailors put him at the farthest corner of their ample premises.
The jailors hated this smooth fellow, this disturber of their peace.
The jailors refused her every thing; and it was only when Petit fell dangerously ill that the latter favour was granted him.
The jailors conveyed his request to their master; the noise of the bolts was soon heard, and a turnkey, stepping into the midst of the disconsolate band, pronounced a cruel no!
No distinction of rank was made by the jailors on the Jersey, but the prisoners themselves agreed to allow the officers to occupy the extreme afterpart of the ship, between decks, called the gun-room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jailors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
