The left hand bastion contains the millhouse, stable, and a room for the van which takes the prisoners to the town hall in the assize time; over these three rooms are the mill chamber and hay-loft.
A captain having to fight his ship even with a few hundreds of prisoners on board would be in no very enviable position.
Such enterprises are merely a roundabout way of presenting the belligerent who retains the command of the sea with as many prisoners of war as survive from the original expedition.
Unfortunately, Garibaldi had no power to keep prisoners of war, even if he wished to do so.
It was when he was summoned, with six fellow-prisoners who had asked for and obtained freedom, to hear, as he feared, his own pardon pronounced.
Some small errors of fact (such as that of stating that all the prisoners were chained, whereas an exception was made of those undergoing life sentences) were magnified by the partisans of Ferdinand II.
I ordered that no prisoners should be taken, but that every person seized with arms in his hand should be immediately put to death, and that the houses from which shots came should be burnt.
In his report, the Archduke Albrecht mentioned that the prisoners said they had not tasted food for twenty-four hours.
The Neapolitan prisoners did more than suffer for freedom; they delivered the name of their country from being a reproach among the nations.
Of prisoners who were not wounded there were none, as they had been sent back scot-free to their general a few days after the 30th of April.
Unlike the thieves and assassins confined in the same fortress, the State prisoners were given no news of their families.
The Spielberg prisoners wore chains, and their food was so bad and scanty that they suffered from continual hunger, with its attendant diseases.
She mentioned Captain Quatrebras and others, and he sent her into Rome on a mission to the Papal commander with a view to exchanging these prisoners for the wounded Giovanni and for his brother's body.
Among the prisoners was the young wife of Captain Silvestro Castiglioni of Modena.
The fate of the other prisoners depended on that of Count Confalonieri.
The prisoners of war were brought before Garibaldi, who praised their valour and sent them under an escort to the Italian frontier.
His case was that of all the political prisoners in the same category with himself.
Their assailants were three times their number, and those who were not killed were carriedprisoners to Rome.
Solitary life-prisoners have been known to resurrect and look upon the sun again.
By so doing we would appear to be theprisoners of the Mormon militia.
If by hypnotism the conscious mind were put to sleep, and the subconscious mind awakened, then was the thing accomplished, then would all the dungeon doors of the brain be thrown wide, then would the prisoners emerge into the sunshine.
The ki-sang invaded us, dragging us about, making prisoners of us, two or three of them to one of us, leading us about like go many dancing boars and putting us through our antics.
The prisoners under this indictment pleaded "Not Guilty; and put themselves upon God and the Country.
Sir Everard Digby and his fellow-prisoners reached Westminster about half-an-hour before the time fixed for the trial, and they were taken to the Star Chamber to await the arrival of their judges.
This Forsett was one of Northampton's spies; a useful and despicable wretch, whom his master employed in overhearing and reporting the private conversations of prisoners with each other.
He had already shown refinement of cruelty in treating the prisonersto a detailed description of the horrors of the death that was awaiting them, and he was now again ready to inflict as much pain as possible.
Sir Everard Digby and his fellow-prisoners knew that they had little mercy to expect at his hands.
Meanwhile examinations were constantly going on, not only of the prisoners in the Tower, but also of other persons, with regard to the Gunpowder Plot, and the correspondence on the subject was very large.
Most of the prisoners have wilfully forsworn that the priests knew anything in particular, and obstinately refuse to be accusers of them, yea, what torture soever they be put to.
To add to the sensations of disgrace, the streets were crowded, and nearly every window in Cheapside was filled with people watching the prisoners passing to their doom.
Fourthly--" but he might have abridged this statement into these few words--We hoped to worm some evidence out of the prisoners against Catholic priests.
As soon as Catesby and Percy had fallen, the attacking party rushed into the court-yard, overpowered the feeble resistance offered to them, and made prisoners of the whole party.
On entering Westminster Hall, the prisoners were made to ascend a scaffold placed in front of the judges.
Onward we kept our course, the speed never lessening, and for fifteen or twenty days, during which we prisoners never saw the captain or his lieutenant, this headlong race continued.
Tolstoy, who retired from the army about the time of his son's birth, had been among the prisoners taken by Napoleon's invading forces in the war of 1812.
But it must not be supposed, prisoners though we were, that we never emerged from the interior of the Nautilus.
She would ask the different prisoners for what crime they were in there.
What," answered the monarch, "would the king of England say, were I to demand the liberation of the prisoners in Newgate?
IN a bill for pulling down the old Newgate in Dublin, and rebuilding it on the same spot, it was enacted, that the prisoners should remain in the old jail till the new one was completed.
While this conversation was going on, the prisoners were being conducted up the ravine toward the camp.
The savages made no attempt to restrain their prisoners from talking, and Frank was glad it was so.
If Dick and Bob had been his prisonershe would, no doubt, have kept them bound hand and foot; but I'm a boy, and he thought he had nothing to fear from me.
The young savage did not appear to be in a mood to discuss the matter, and Archie, with his feelings worked up to the highest pitch of excitement, twisted about uneasily, and waited to see if there were any prisoners brought in.
When the boys had satisfied their appetites, they lay down on the leaves and went to sleep, while Dick set out in search of Archie, leaving Bob to watch the boys and the prisoners during his absence.
And he also states that when at Crefeld allprisoners other than British were turned out.
Sunday on the parish for the maintenance of poor prisoners in the county gaol.
North Riding was made for the relief of poor prisoners of the King's Bench and Marshalsea.
For instance, Mr. Harvey tells us that on their first arrival at Guterslob new prisoners were treated quite formally by their fellow-countrymen: New arrivals were not ignored by the British.
Krassnov's detachment withdrew to Gatchinsk, and when we started out thither the next day, Krassnov's staff were already virtually prisoners of the Cossacks themselves.
Under the old regime the inmates of prisons used to be divided into political prisoners and criminals.
Count Mirbach, then at the head of the German missions at Petrograd, went to Berlin with the assurance that an agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners of war had been satisfactorily reached.
Then, having locked the doors of the jail, leaving the prisoners secure, they made their way silently back to the New Albany station, reaching there in time to catch the train that drew out at 3:30 A.
The prisoners were carried on to Cleveland by another boat, and from there were hurried on by rail to New Albany, where they were placed in jail along with "Sim" and William Reno.
Then suddenly--no one will ever know how it happened--the prisonersmade their escape.
After three hours' deliberation the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and the prisonerswere sentenced to twenty years each in the State prison.
Camp Douglas, Illinois, had the highest death rate of all Civil war prisons--10 per cent of its prisoners died in one month.
The declaration by Union authorities that medicine was a contraband of war and their unwillingness to exchange prisoners contributed to the deplorable prison deaths.
Illustration: On the silent battlefield at Gettysburg, veterans of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia who survived the baptism by fire await their fate as prisoners of war.
By paying him every attention, I hoped to inculcate that national greatness does not include cruelty to prisoners of war.
The cruelty practised towards these prisoners in Peru, is of itself a reason why their tyrants did not venture to encounter the Spanish General Cantarac.
The exchange of prisonerswas uncourteously refused, the Viceroy concluding his reply with an expression of surprise that a British nobleman should command the maritime forces of a Government "unacknowledged by all the Powers of the globe.
The wounded amongst the Esmeralda's crew were sent on shore under a flag of truce, a letter from me to the Viceroy proposing an exchange of prisoners being at the same time transmitted.
Biddle even acquainted the prisoners with the manner in which it had been carried out.
The prisoners were sullen and resentful, perforce submissive, not a little distrustful of their guards, from whom they had deserved no kindness.
Dennis sent Ned Whiddon among them to put a stop to this ruthless butchery; then his intervention was called for at the round tower from which the prisoners had been released.
Leave the knave prisoners to bear him company, sir.
He had been sent, he said, among a gang ofprisoners from St. John d'Ulua to Cartagena and thence to a place on the coast somewhat south of Cartagena, where the governor had a pearl fishery.
Many a time in the succeeding days did Amos relate incidents in the life of the prisoners at Porto Aguila that made Dennis's blood run cold.
He deplored the necessity of thus diminishing his little party, but it was clearly impossible to trust the guardianship of the prisoners to Baltizar alone.
Ned Whiddon, Hugh Curder, and many another hunted them into the four corners of the courtyard; the tables were turned, and the freed prisoners smote and spared not.
Meanwhile the Spaniards who had survived the fight and escaped from their pursuers, had barricaded themselves in the officers' quarters, where they were unmolested while the majority of their late prisoners were on the quay.
Expecting reprisals from Hawkins for the treacherous treatment he had received, the governor had ordered the fort to be strengthened, and dispatched several of his able-bodied prisoners to assist in the work.
On the farther side of the enclosure, in the round tower beneath which the prisoners were confined, another light shone forth; somebody was awake there.
That night we entertained several ex-British soldierprisoners from Waterval.
The revenue agent insists upon staying in the mountains for an indefinite time, and now that two of my men and three of our prisoners are severely wounded and in the hands of your good young Doctor, I am not reluctant to stay.
Then charge the sentries who are guarding our prisoners to be on the alert and serve as camp guards as well.
More probably theprisoners here were Episcopalians of Milton's own time.
Through the oubliette in the floor dead prisoners were doubtless dropped into the Thames, which in former days washed the very walls of Lambeth, and swept under this tower.
The small room at the top of the tower is wainscoted with oak over an inch thick, upon which prisoners chained to its iron rings have carved words in early English and Latin.
Two sets of boys, or sides, strive which can secure most prisoners for the King.
The prisoners made, join the one child, and assist her in the process of catching the others.
He hoped those German prisoners who walked as if they were wound up with a key, noticed all this hurry and bustle.
One by one these prisoners were passed into an inner room where each remained for about five minutes.
The prisoners did not lose any sleep over this enterprise, for both Tom and Archer were young and Archer at least was regarded as an irresponsible soul, whose mission on earth was to cause trifling annoyance and much amusement.
That's the way prisoners always get away--in stories.
Several of them were slightly wounded, but none seriously, for Germany does not bother with prisoners who require much care.
When the hapless prisoners had been examined and searched and relieved of their few possessions, they were marched to the neighboring camp--a civilian camp it was called, although it was hardly limited to that.
In the afternoon this pleasant chatting was made impossible by the numbers of military prisoners who were herded into the rough box car.
If the prisoners wished to dig a drain trench or a refuse pit, they asked for shovels.
He spread his lips, but the big voice squeaked dismally, then, inflating deeply, he spoke so that the prisoners chained in the corral outside heard him plainly.
And now as they rose to their feet the bugle rang out, and the prisoners understood that, having travelled all day, they were fated to travel all night also.
And then, suddenly they halted upon the summit of a sand-hill, and the prisoners could see them outlined plainly against the sky.
So you see that all the King's prisoners do not exceed his knee--which is not because he was so much taller, but so much more powerful.
Tippy Tilly," repeated the negro, sinking his voice as if he wished only the prisoners to hear him.
Laying his carpet upon the ground, he motioned Mansoor to his side, and then gave a circular sweep of his arm to signify that the prisoners should gather round him, and a downward wave which meant that they should be seated.
But the prisoners were astonished to observe that the Arabs pointed at this with an air of the utmost concern, and they halted when they came to the edge of it like men upon the brink of an unfordable river.
The prisoners all acquiesced in the Colonel's plan, with the exception of the old New England lady, who absolutely refused even to show any interest in the Mohammedan creed.
Then again we must not forget that these people have a trick of murdering their prisoners when they see that there is a chance of a rescue.
Do you remember the poor string of prisoners who are being dragged along to the feet of the great king--how dejected they looked among the warriors who led them?
Then the camels began to trot, and the hopes of the prisoners were dulled by the agonies of the terrible jolt.
Officially, the prostitutes are free lodgers in the brothel, but in reality they are often prisoners or slaves.
Thither the prisoners of Boroughbridge were sent for their trial, and there they were hastily condemned by a body of seven earls and numerous barons, presided over by the king himself.
In return Henry promised that no layman should lose his inheritance by reason of his adherence to Louis, and that the baronial prisoners should be released without further payment of ransom.
As Louis traversed the disaffected districts, Wilkin fell upon him near Lewes, and took prisoners two nephews of the Count of Nevers.
The marchers were in arms in the west, and were specially formidable because they detained in their custody the numerous prisoners captured at the sack of Northampton.
So one fine morning they set out to conquer some weaker colony and make slaves of the prisoners of war.
It was a long voyage in a sailing-vessel, and many of the poor little prisoners died on the way.
Those who enjoy going to the circus or menagerie or to any show of wild animals ought to consider how they would like to be shut up as prisoners all their lives, and forced to do unnatural tricks.
When these poor prisoners are in our care we must do what we can to protect them and make them happy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prisoners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
