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Example sentences for "prison cell"

  • And then, as though they were but toys, he threw in air the throne and armor of the puppet king; he broke his sword, and put him in a prison cell.

  • Behold I say, This man whom Herod bound in chains and cast into a prison cell, is God's Elijah come again to earth.

  • At the expiration of a week I returned to my prison cell.

  • After I had met with misfortune and found myself in a prison cell, I was glad that I had learned to rely upon my own efforts.

  • Some of them are physical wrecks, and would have to go to the almshouse to be taken care of in case they should obtain their freedom, yet they would prefer any place to that of a prison cell, deprived of their freedom.

  • She could not advise me to go home if a prison cell awaited me.

  • It seemed to me, after I saw the men casting off the huge hawsers that held the ship to the pier, that those infernal detectives must come on board and hurry me back to a prison cell in the city from which I had fled.

  • I was resolved that Lilian, whatever she might think of me, should never be compelled to look in upon her husband through the bars of a prison cell.

  • It might have looked ghastly to a resident in the country, unused to the light London calls day, but to one immured in a prison cell it was an irradiation of glory.

  • What illness in the frightful solitude of a prison cell is I know.

  • He locked us up in a prison cell, excluded us from light and air, deprived us of all communication with each other, and debarred us from all intercourse with the outside world except during fifteen minutes each day through an iron grating.

  • Dreary indeed was the life in my prison cell, sitting on the three-legged stool picking fibre, or walking up and down the twelve-foot floor.

  • The life of my betrayer, or such a mark of my vengeance as will make her rue the day she sent one of your Order to work out his life, a miserable captive, in a prison cell.

  • I carried it with me into my prison cell, and day by day and year by year I repeated it to myself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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