In consequence of the great provocation which had been received by Walker, strenuous efforts were made to induce the Home Secretary to commute the death sentence to one of penal servitude, but without avail.
He spent a good deal of his time in writing a statement of his views upon the present system of penal servitude, for the information of the Home Office.
The Baron was a Senator of the Kingdom, said the mason, and could therefore of course send him to penal servitude in the galleys for life, if he pleased.
He had been a convict, and had served a term of several years in penal servitude.
William Habron alone was convicted, and sentenced to penal servitude.
Vivian was one James Barnet, otherwise George Percy, otherwise George Guelph, a notorious convict, only recently released after a term of ten years' penal servitude.
The real offenders were in due course put upon their trial at Newcastle, before Mr. Baron Pollock, were found guilty, and sentenced each to five years' penal servitude.
Afterwards I committed other crimes, and was at last copt and sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
He has got a sentence of twenty-one years' penal servitude, and is as innocent of the crime as the child unborn.
And in the end the criminal was, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, condemned to penal servitude in the second class for a term of eight years only.
I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?
Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the "Dead House," and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion.
The perfected system of penal servitude now in force was of slow growth, and at the beginning many places were utilised that could voice no protest.
Send the husband and wife to penal servitude if you disapprove of their conduct and want to punish them; but do not send them back to perpetual wedlock.
One young fellow who has served a well-earned and richly merited sentence of five years' penal servitude, quite overpowered me with his good intentions and professions of rectitude.
It can turn men and women into pillars of moral death, for even the influence of a long term of penal servitude, withering as it is, cannot for one moment be compared with the corrupting effect of common lodging-house life.
There was no doubt about his guilt, and a sentence of five years' penal servitude followed.
But all my acquaintances are not heroes, for I am sorry to say that my old friend Downy has served his term of penal servitude, and is at liberty once more to beg or steal.
For in England, fortunately, conspiracy against the life, property, or character of any person or persons is a felony, punishable by penal servitude.
He was obliged to say that he would, but it did seem to him that Scarrowby was a sort of penal servitude to which he was about to be sent with his own concurrence.
The choice was between five hundred pounds a year in any of the capitals of Europe, and that without a debt,--or penal servitude.
I believe I could send you to penal servitude, Captain Hotspur.
I have always maintained that were I sentenced to a term of penal servitude I would infinitely sooner serve it in (some parts of) Siberia than in England.
The majority were men of education, but dangerous conspirators, condemned to long terms of penal servitude.
The criminal colonists are allotted a plot of ground in this district after a term of penal servitude, and I have never beheld, even in Sakhalin, such a band of murderous-looking ruffians as were assembled here.
If you are banished to a settlement, or even sent to penal servitude, would it be worse than being shut up in this ward?
He will no doubt be convicted and sent to penal servitude.
If I go to penal servitude it will only give my wife an opportunity of marrying again and deceiving a second husband.
You for a holy life of self-renouncement, or your husband to drag out his miserable days in penal servitude.
Are you conscious that you are rendering yourself liable to penal servitude?
Thus, with a well-merited sentence of three years' penal servitude, ended a trial of which the vulgarity of detail was only equalled by the audacity of defense.
Then followed another trial for obtaining money and jewels by false pretences, and again the sentence was five years' penal servitude.
They had no chance at their trial, and they were sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and lodged in a horrible prison at Constantinople to serve their time.
She was white to the lips and shaking with fear when she stood up to receive sentence of five years' penal servitude, and she could not leave the dock without the aid of the wardresses.
And above all, your spirit is cowed and prostrate from years in prison; you have known the long, sterile bitterness of penal servitude, and you have no stomach for a fight.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penal servitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
