The prisoner was a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years of age.
Acquainted with every trick and stratagem of the prisoner plotting for his freedom, he had left no weak point in their structure.
He was recalling the fact that noprisoner had ever escaped from those cement cells.
He was also glad that he had no other prisoner for company.
In England the old remedy in such a case was pressing to death (the peine forte et dure), but the goods of the prisoner were not forfeited.
The Governor requested the deemsters and the House of Keys to inform him what the laws of the island provided should be done in the case of a prisoner refusing to plead.
William Barnwell was thrown into a dark and loathsome dungeon, from whence the body of many a poor prisoner had been borne after death, produced by torture and starvation.
Take him to the guard-house and treat him as a prisoner of the second class until you hear from me again," said the governor to the guard, speaking in Russian.
It was a strange place, but there was little to do, save when a new batch of prisoners arrived; and as he had already gone through with the prisoner part of the business, the place after all did not seem so strange to him.
Master, this prisoner freely give I thee; And thou that art his mate make boot of this; The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share.
Stay, Whitmore, for thyprisoner is a prince, The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.
Then the arms of the prisoner were crossed over his body, and the ends of those closed sleeves were brought around in back.
The shivering prison-breaker hurried the wretchedprisoner out of cell No.
Taken as a prisoner to Genoa, he was cast into prison, where he remained immured for a year.
Having established friendship with them, we surrendered the other prisoner and sent to the ships for the canoe, which we restored.
Having given his prisoner a good squeeze, which nearly crushed the rough's ribs flat, Long Acre carried the man across the roadway, tossed him over the railings among some shrubs, and walked away.
There was one window in his room, and the prisoner had managed to push open the sash with his knees.
The worst punishment I know how to inflict on anyone this prisoneris about to suffer.
She believed the Boolooroo would surely keep so important a prisoner as Cap'n Bill locked up in his own palace.
And in order that the slicing would be accurate, there was another frame to which the prisoner was tied so that he couldn't wiggle either way.
He found the cord still tied to his big toe and at first imagined his prisoner safe in the dressing room.
When they saw how the Boolooroo's precious prisoner was escaping, they instantly became alert and wide-awake, and every one started in pursuit along the foot of the wall.
After breakfast was over, a procession was formed, headed by the Boolooroo, and they marched the prisoner through the palace until they came to the Room of the Great Knife.
This was sufficient excuse for the Boolooroo, who at once had Tiggle made a prisoner and brought before him.
They soon gave up the chase and returned to the City, while the runaway Majordomo was captured by Captain Coralie and marched away to the tent of Rosalie the Witch, a prisoner of the Pinkies.
Letters were there from persons in every class of life,--a very large number from women, for theprisoner had charms which the fair sex have always found it difficult to resist.
When he told his fellow-prisoner of his adventures and of his honors, how he had lost the place of Grand Master of the Artillery through Louvois, and had only missed being the acknowledged husband of the grand-daughter of Henry IV.
When I am such a prisoner and have so little strength?
You haven't found it easy to be a prisoner in a wheel-chair!
Was there anything in Miss Annister's suggestion that Gordon had made a prisoner of him and tried to extract money in that way?
I should forget not only my gratitude, but my duty to the laws, were I to leave this prisoner in your hands, even by his own consent, without knowing the nature of his crime, in which we may have all been his innocent accessaries.
Frustrated in this attempt, the callous Sioux laid the cold edge on the naked head of his victim, and began to describe the different manners, in which a prisoner might be flayed.
After the battle of Glen-Mama, Maelmordha had hidden himself in a yew-tree, where he was discovered and taken prisoner by Murrough.
Essex then invited Conn O'Donnell to his camp; but, as soon as he secured him, he seized his Castle of Lifford, and sent the unfortunate chieftain a prisoner to Dublin.
In 1466 he led an army of the English of Meath and Leinster against O'Connor Faly, but he was defeated and taken prisoner in the engagement.
In 1231 he was taken prisoner at Meelick, despite the most solemn guarantees, by the very man who had so lately enthroned him.
He was in a dying state; but although his enemies might well have waited for his end, he was taken out of his bed, carried to Dublin, and confined a prisoner in the Castle.
Theobald de Verdun lost both his men and his horses, and Gerald FitzMaurice was taken prisoner the day after the battle, it is said through the treachery of his own followers.
His son, Donough, who has an equal reputation for valour, was made prisoner two years after by the Lord Deputy, and imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Murrough was takenprisoner by his father, and his eyes were put out as a punishment for his rebellion, and to prevent a repetition of his treachery.
Cassander himself feared that they would not; and although he was unwilling to murder her while she was a defenseless prisoner in his hands, he determined that she should die.
The prisoner was not well up in the character he had undertaken to play, and was told that he must go to head-quarters.
I told the Prisoner the next time he went out he should run away, which he did, neither was there any security to be found; then did I bring my action against the Keeper, with my Knights of the Post, and so recovered the money.
Vault; and so without more ado, laid as much iron on me, as there is in some Smiths shops, and confined me close Prisoner to the Dungeon.
Upon this sight Fancy me thought suggested to me that her money was as already as surely mine as if I had already confin’d it close Prisoner in my leathern dungeon.
But they like the rest of the best and fairest promising friends left me, when fortune committed me prisonerto the merciless cruel hands of that accursed Gaoler, Poverty.
In the mean time I had got a Bond of the Prisoner of fourscore pound for the payment of forty, and so went privately and enter’d an action of Debt.
Confin’d I was within his house, lockt up close Prisoner in a Chamber, till that he could acquaint my mother with what had past.
Nowe hee then being prisoner without hope of any liberty, by meanes of the dampishe prison, and his feete clogged with yrons, grewe to bee sicke and feeble.
Her mouth would be securely gagged, like that of the Jew, and she, a helplessprisoner in the hands of Chauvelin's men.
I shall have an interesting prisoner to deliver into your hands," he said with a chuckle, as with unwonted familiarity he took Desgas' arm, and led him towards the door.
The fate of the unfortunate King of France, then a prisoner of his own people, seemed to cast a gloom even over Mr. Jellyband's pleasant countenance.
Perhaps the old prisoner-cook thought he saw in me a fellow-prisoner in some other jail, and he may have been right, for I had been in many others; or perhaps I resembled a son of his.
Every prisoner would be startled by this sudden and unexpected wail, and a dead silence would come, which before was all buzz.
No doubt the governor gave a satisfactory account of the prisoner under his charge.
Gaveston, a foreigner and favorite of the King, and who for some years had made himself obnoxious to the barons and people of England, is made prisoner and beheaded; peace ensues between Edward II and his barons.
His brother, made prisoner at Furnes by the Count d'Artois, had perished in that rude Prince's keeping.
Pope Boniface VIII is surprised at Anagni by William de Nogaret, King Philip's adviser; after being kept for some days a prisoner he is rescued and allowed to return to Rome, where he dies.
But while yet some distance from it, they received information from a prisoner that the ford was guarded by six thousand fighting men, and, though the intelligence was untrue, it deterred him from attempting the passage.
Her only consolation was that she was at first allowed interviews with a priest, who told her that he was a prisoner and attached to Charles VII's cause.
He had claimed one of the burghers as his bondman, refused to grant him his freedom at a less price than three hundred pounds, and sent him a prisoner to the castle of Rochester.
This opinion, quite different from what was expected, was that the prisoner should be summoned, and her act of abjuration be read over to her.
With all his chivalry, Warwick was not the less savagely eager for the death of a woman, and one who was, too, a prisoner of war.
David Bruce invades England; he is vanquished and made prisoner at Neville's Cross.
A Greek prisoner whom they brought with them to Asia informed Suleiman of the abandoned and unprepared state of the place, and offered himself as a guide to surprise the garrison.
I saw in a village being shelled by German guns a prisoner of war just being brought into the French line.
A Frenchman from Normandy writes as follows to his wife: "I must tell you that I am a prisoner of war.
One prisoner taken by the French near Courtrai sobbed for an hour as though his heart were broken, his nerves were so much shaken by what he had been through.
It is the belief of the Czar's force that the war can be easily terminated by making a prisoner of Emperor William.
Whereupon a Tommy, about to run his bayonet through the intruder, burst into roars of laughter, and made him a prisoner instead.
A British prisoner of war named Lonsdale, confined in the Doeberitz Camp, has been condemned by a German court-martial to ten years' imprisonment for striking one of his custodians.
They sailed many weeks, and traded with the Indians; but I knew not what course they took, being kept a close prisoner in my cabin, and expecting nothing less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me.
