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Example sentences for "state prison"

  • The firm did not lose a cent and they want her sent to state prison.

  • I told the story of her hard struggle to keep the home going, how the firm had refused to give her a raise and were now trying to send her to state prison.

  • I won't send so young a girl to state prison," the judge said, "But I cannot let her go free.

  • But if she is sent to state prison it will greatly reduce this item of loss.

  • If the Supreme Court failed to act before the close of January 22, Ruef, unless pardoned or paroled, would have to go to State prison.

  • The three trapped Supervisors might be sent to State Prison.

  • Alexandria by rail, containing a castle used as a state prison by Mehemet Ali.

  • It is in some states a criminal offence on the part of each party to the act, for which imprisonment in the penitentiary or state prison for a term of years may be awarded.

  • I don't want to go to State Prison," he wailed, and then confession flowed from him with the steady gurgle of water from a jug.

  • Put your hand on that dog, and you'll go to State Prison.

  • I was intendin' to let you off if you owned up and told all you know--but now that you've lied to me, come along to State Prison!

  • He was committed to a state prison, in a remote part of the Austrian dominions; and whether he died in captivity, or was set at liberty, we have not learned, nor are we anxious to know.

  • No human eye could see into the dark recesses of a state prison, but there were not wanting many who entertained a total disbelief of Pichegru's suicide.

  • And what do they do to them in state prison?

  • Jerry did not say why she asked, but put the same question to him she had put to Harold: 'If they find the one who took the diamonds will they send him to state prison?

  • In a state prison, almost every action of the prisoners, not particularly mentioned in the By-Laws, is either a crime or not, according to the whim that happens to be in the breast of the keeper at the time it is done.

  • While he was suffering for his sins within the dreary walls of a State prison, he was led to think on his ways and reform his life.

  • From the preceding rapid sketch of a work of grace in a State Prison, the following affecting truths force themselves inferentially upon the mind.

  • He'll go to State prison, girl--do you hear?

  • Those who have been looked upon by all as the most hopeless are the old timers in State Prison.

  • Some years after his conviction to state prison, the boy returned from what proved to have been a runaway adventure, alive and well.

  • It became the warrant for the arbitrary arrest, at any time and without any reason given, of any person who, upon the strength of it, was forthwith committed to a State prison.

  • The prison of the Temple with its great towers and wide encircling walls became a state prison, the forerunner of Vincennes and the Bastile.

  • Mont St. Michel as a State prison is of still greater antiquity than Loches, far older than the stronghold for which it was admirably suited by its isolated situation on the barren sea shore.

  • Here we shall be arrested by the question, what is to be understood by a state prison?

  • Building), a State prison in Paris, built originally as a fortress of defence to the city, by order of Charles V.

  • In common usage, however, the word misdemeanor denotes a smaller offense, such as is usually punishable by fine, or by imprisonment in a county jail, and not in a state prison.

  • The stealing of property above a certain amount in value is called grand larceny, and is a state prison offense.

  • An infamous crime is one which is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison.

  • Whilst I'm staying alone here he'll be alone in a cell in state prison.

  • You belong back in state prison, and I'll see to it that you're put there.

  • Son, let's forget that we have ever been in state prison.

  • If you can make it your business to take this pest to state prison, where he probably belongs if his record could be dug up, the town of Egypt will be all right again.

  • Then a Dutch Deputy Sheriff, who was also keeper of the jail, came and told me that I was held for bigamy, adding the consoling intelligence that it would be a very hard job for me, and that I would get five or six years in State prison sure.

  • How did the valet know but that, by assisting his master, he was sending himself to State prison?

  • I am absolutely compelled to discharge this defendant, who, by his own statement, ought to be incarcerated in State Prison!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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