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Example sentences for "perpetual prison"

  • Robert's commission was withdrawn, and he expiated his insane cruelties in perpetual prison.

  • John Northampton, late mayor of London, was committed to perpetual prison, and his goods confiscated.

  • And he that should fail in this either is condemned to live in perpetual prison or to abjure the land.

  • In 1501, at Barcelona, when Florencia, daughter of Manuel de Puigmija, was condemned to perpetual prison, it is said that her property was spared in view of her tender age.

  • He could learn nothing of those whom he held dear, nor could they conjecture his fate until, after perhaps the lapse of years, he appeared in an auto de fe as one destined to the stake or to the galleys or to perpetual prison.

  • Persisting in his errors, he was again tried in Treviso, obliged to abjure de vehementi and sentenced to perpetual prison, while a book which he had written was publicly burnt.

  • He was sentenced to perpetual prison, without hope of release, and to a series of arduous spiritual penances, while Fra Benigno escaped with seven years of imprisonment.

  • The unfortunate Mari Sanz, who had caused the explosion, expiated her imprudence by appearing with a gag and a sentence to perpetual prison, two hundred lashes in Llerena and two hundred more at la Fuente del Maestre, her place of residence.

  • According to a contemporary, by the fourth of November they had burnt two hundred and ninety-eight persons and had condemned seventy-nine to perpetual prison.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aesthetic value; animal origin; answered the young lady; balsam boughs; bound train; civilized people; great mind; hand combat; late friend; left the; man should; oblique direction; perpetual covenant; perpetual curate; perpetual exile; perpetual peace; perpetual prison; perpetual youth; present position; publication office; put himself; sell their; sensible woman; should also; side quadrant; the fat