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Example sentences for "reformatory"

Lexicographically close words:
reformado; reformation; reformations; reformative; reformatories; reforme; reformed; reformer; reformers; reforming
  1. Several treatises on the position and task, the rights and duties of the ministerial office show a reformatory tendency.

  2. His mysticism is distinguished by depth and spirituality as well as by reformatory struggling against a superficial externalism.

  3. His reformatory notions were set forth first of all in his exegetical works that covered almost the whole range of Scripture.

  4. First in the beginning of the 16th century did the reformatory endeavours become so mature and strong that it could assume a purer form and carry out its efforts with success.

  5. The reformatory current, too, which permeated the whole of the Middle Ages, has in each of these two periods its own distinctive character.

  6. The reformatory is conducted on the cottage system, the prison atmosphere being carefully eliminated, so that it is rather a country farm home school than anything else, although the pupils are those committed thither by the courts of justice.

  7. In 1858 a reformatory school for juvenile criminals was established at Isle aux Noix, near the frontier and at the head of the Richelieu river.

  8. In 1870, the Government of the Province of Quebec had founded a reformatory for youthful delinquents and incorrigible children.

  9. Being an old military post it was again deemed necessary to occupy it and the reformatory was removed to St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal, in 1861.

  10. The reformatory is a blessing in disguise for many a family and for the community at large.

  11. It is also the only paper exclusively managed by prisoners, all other penal and reformatory periodicals being conducted by a high-salaried superintendent or else the policy is under the supervision of the chaplain.

  12. Those serving reformatory sentences are compelled to attend, but the voluntary attendance is always in excess of the compulsory.

  13. For a time he sold newspapers on the streets, then he gradually sank lower and lower and was later on sent to a reformatory to expiate a minor offence and from there he will be discharged a graduated criminal.

  14. In the underworld the Reformatory is called "the university.

  15. Now that the principle of reformatory schools was established, Miss Carpenter returned to her plea for free day-schools, contending that the ragged schools were entitled to pecuniary aid from the annual parliamentary grant.

  16. This was followed in 1851 by Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders.

  17. She visited Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, inaugurated the Bengal Social Science Association, and drew up a memorial to the governor-general dealing with female education, reformatory schools and the state of gaols.

  18. She meant to interest her in the Reformatory school for William's sake.

  19. There will be no talk there of new dresses or reformatory schools, I'm sure of that," she said, preparing to go to bed.

  20. The vessel is managed by “The Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association,” which has also a girls’ reformatory and a farm school.

  21. This is a Reformatory School Ship for Roman Catholic boys.

  22. The Reformatory ship ‘Cornwall’ is at Purfleet.

  23. This is a Reformatory Ship, managed by “The School Ship Society.

  24. Thomas and Alexander Campbell, father and son, were born in North Ireland, were educated at Glasgow University, and came to America only a short time before the launching of their reformatory movement.

  25. Three Sources, Two Streams Looking back from a later time to describe the reformatory movement as it had been in the 1820's, Walter Scott wrote that there were then "three parties struggling to restore original Christianity.

  26. Committee that looks after the industrial and reformatory schools.

  27. They consist of boys and girls who, having been charged before a magistrate with offences which render them liable to be sent to an industrial or a reformatory school, get remanded for inquiries.

  28. Generally they are sent home if it be a first offence, or to a reformatory if the case be a bad one.

  29. I have always said, and shall always continue to say," he states, "that reformatory schools ought to be made a State charge entirely.

  30. It may be quite possible to teach a prisoner or the inmate of a reformatory to acquire the habits and the manners of an independent gentleman.

  31. Money may be had, through channels provided by Parliament, for placing people in institutions, reformatory and otherwise; while the statutes do not provide for expenditure in the way suggested.

  32. If a boy in a reformatory commit an offence for which a Court might send him to prison, he may instead be sent to a Borstal Institution, his sentence then superseding that in the reformatory school.

  33. They are often carried on at a financial loss, for the cost is considerable; but reformatory work cannot be conducted on a commercial basis.

  34. Inebriate Homes and other reformatory institutions are not voluntary associations, but there can be no intercourse amongst their inmates that is not based on some experience common to them all.

  35. When a boy is sent to a reformatory he has opportunities given him for play, and the importance of providing different forms of recreation for him is not ignored.

  36. On the following day Kossuth delivered his famous speech on the finances and the state of the monarchy generally, concluding with a proposed "Address to the Throne," urging a series of reformatory measures.

  37. The State, in 1887, located here its reformatory school, receiving a donation of two hundred acres of land, covered with gray and variegated granite.

  38. The state reformatory was located at East St. Cloud in 1887.

  39. I went to the Bitley Reformatory this morning to see her," St. George replied.

  40. In half an hour he was at the Grand Central station, boarding a train for the Reformatory town.

  41. St. George was struck with the change in her since that day in the Reformatory chapel.

  42. I went up to the Reformatory in Westchester, and I spoke with her.

  43. When Si went to the reformatory he told father he intended to send his son to a military school and cut off his allowance.

  44. I wonder if they are out of the reformatory yet for setting fire to the barn?

  45. An Indian committee was formed, and Thanksgiving entertainments were given at the Woman's Reformatory in Sherborn and the Dedham Asylum for released prisoners.

  46. The Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Girls at Lancaster, Massachusetts, is a Wellesley graduate who is doing work of unusual distinction in this field.

  47. But if I succeed with my salon--which before long I hope to make as fixed and inevitable a matter as the day of the week on which it is held--the result must surely be a most salutary and even reformatory one.

  48. Yes," she went on, "the reformatory impulse must have been latent all that time.

  49. Believe you telegraphed to the reformatory at Linwood some time since about a boy named Welmore--Richard Markham Welmore?

  50. His impulse was to hurry downtown and telegraph the reformatory at Linwood for information.

  51. He sent a message to the reformatory at Linwood, asking if one Richard Welmore was still an inmate of that institution.

  52. In short, the warden of the Juvenile Reformatory at Linwood, offered that amount for the return to that institution of an escaped inmate--Richard Markham Welmore.

  53. Indiana, like other States, professes to be training the inmates of her reformatory to occupations by which they will be able to make their living when released.

  54. From the reformatory to the penitentiary had been the path of this boy's life, until, broken in body, he died a victim of social revenge.

  55. But at this so-called reformatory 59 occupations were represented by the inmates, 39 of which were connected with country pursuits.

  56. A reformatory institution, to be efficacious, must be adapted to the nature of man and his social condition.

  57. We do not mean to assert that all who sympathize with any particular reformatory measures, or any particular reformatory party, are on the side of Christ, and all who disapprove these measures, or this party, are against him.

  58. Nor was the prison discipline which accomplished the reform of the two brothers the only opportunity of steady industry, or the prison the only reformatory environment afforded.

  59. The Elmira reformatory deals especially with offenders sentenced for their first state's prison offence, and its method is at once eminently humane and remarkably successful.

  60. A want of confidence in the many professedly reformatory measures and associations of the age was calculated to affect his popularity in many quarters, but he adhered unwaveringly to his motto, 'the Gospel.

  61. The charge of criminals and reformatory institutions are also largely placed under State control and supervision.

  62. The class, as a class, are the most desperate and unfortunate which reformatory agencies ever touch.

  63. The true preventive of social catastrophes like these, are just such Christian reformatory and educational movements as we are about to describe.

  64. If the subject of a Reformatory be a poor boy or girl, the kind of work usually chosen is not the one best suited to a child of this class, or which he will be apt to take up afterwards.

  65. It would not do to turn our Lodging-house into a Reformatory for Magdalens, nor to make it into a convenient resting-place for those who lived on the wages of lust.

  66. There are some children so perverse, and inheriting such bad tendencies, and so stamped with the traits of a vagabond life, that a Reformatory is the best place for them.

  67. In defending the London County Council the writer used the following words: "Reformation, not mere detention, was its object when it instituted its reformatory under the Inebriates Acts.

  68. On the termination of her reformatory sentence the discharge certificate described her as "quite unfit to control her own actions," and "certain to succumb to the first temptation to drink.

  69. When physical suffering became infrequent, and the arrangements secured both convenience and comfort during the voyage, it was long ere moral control, or a reformatory discipline, became objects of concern.

  70. He asserted that the advantage of transportation as a reformatory and deterring system, notwithstanding the numerous experiments, remained yet to be resolved.

  71. That coterie of men, powerful in both parties, had already scented the peril to their practices threatened by the Governor's reformatory plans, and were only too willing to join in a warfare against him.

  72. The reformatory work of Mr. Jefferson in 1800 must now be repeated.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reformatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    brig; cell; corrective; dungeon; gaol; guardhouse; jail; keep; lockup; pen; penitentiary; prison; radical; reformatory; revisionist; revolutionary; stockade