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Example sentences for "prison life"

  • To the Editor of the BLADE: Last evening I saw a copy of your paper, in which was a chapter or two of a prison life of a soldier during the late war.

  • Now, with months of the wear and tear of prison life, sleeping on the sand, working in tunnels, digging wells, etc.

  • Many years of continued evangelistic work in the penitentiaries and prisons of America have given her a wide range of experiences of prison life, a description of which cannot fail to be of intense interest to every reader.

  • I had not been here a year until I realized what eighteen years of prison life meant--the deprivation of all earthly pleasures, and the wasting away of youthful hopes and ambitions in vain regret.

  • When first I came here I did not think of what was in store for me--eighteen years of prison life.

  • I have written him a long letter reviewing the principal incidents of my prison life.

  • Baltimore, especially, and New York did much toward relieving the burdens of prison life.

  • The prison fare is the most difficult, as well as unpleasant, part of prison life of which to treat.

  • Then follows a recital of the dreary and monotonous routine of prison life, together with a vivid account of the scenes enumerated, the escape, and the final entry into the Federal lines.

  • My health for the most part has been very poor, which I attribute to the inactivity of prison life.

  • As this is to be a history of prison life, it is not my purpose to write a history of my regiment but a short sketch is proper in order to give the reader a fair understanding of my capture.

  • Prison life, on the solitary plan, is not conducive to colloquial glibness, nor is Peter Floome habitually garrulous.

  • The chaplain gave a slight sketch of Neilson's prison life, winding up with some words of exhortation for the benefit of the convicts.

  • Peter, having had a good twenty years' stretch of prison life, his experience undoubtedly counted.

  • This money represented a sacrifice the outside world can hardly compute, for it was spared from the small sums they had on deposit, which could furnish them with little comforts or necessities during the long years of prison life.

  • These cleaners eat up everything; indeed, so fat do they often become that it is a kind of unwritten rule that when they have increased a stone in weight they revert to prison life.

  • The tread-wheel occupies a prominent position in prison life.

  • They stand in the most intimate relation to the deleteriousness of prison life, and are therefore influenced to the greatest extent by change of environment.

  • Siefert considers the above-mentioned disease processes as entirely dependent upon and provoked by prison life, in individuals with a tendency to mental deterioration.

  • For the first time my courage failed me, and my heart grew faint as I thought that I must pass through what they had already seen of prison life.

  • The razor and spoon I carried all through my prison life, and have them yet.

  • I had bloated so that I was the picture of health, and no matter what account I gave of prison life my face contradicted it, so I said little.

  • The account of prison life is taken from an imperfect diary, kept by the writer while a prisoner of war.

  • Improvement in Prison Life=] We have by no means told all the horrors of prison life at that period, but will desist from giving any more of its painful details.

  • No account of prison life in Danville would be complete without it.

  • We essayed to disarm suspicion by an air of quiet acquiescence in the lazy routine of prison life, or absorption in the simplest and most innocent occupations whenever any Confederate might be looking on.

  • His former term of five years had made him proficient in all the dodges of prison life, and he felt justified in his own mind in using all his craft in order to put in his seven years as easily as possible.

  • I was well treated all the way over, but every night my prayer was that we might run on an iceberg or go down, so that my wife might be spared long years of agony and me from the misery and degradation of prison life.

  • Decent living was driving the corruption engendered by prison life out of my system.

  • Prison life is a queer and twisted one, and a law to itself.

  • Herr is bringing out a book on prison life which is abundantly capable of two effects, namely: Enlisting the attention of readers, like a romance, and benefitting the class of whom he writes.

  • But the Jefferson county jail has marked a departure from the routine of prison life in the establishment of a library station for its inmates.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blood twelve; chronic cases; golden star; heard afterwards; her only; lofty mountains; named from; natural affection; prison camp; prison cell; prison discipline; prison life; prison reform; prison strong; prison walls; prisoners captured; prisoners taken; prisoners were; retain their; simple and; then once; till about; unless they; when exposed; will continue; you forget