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Example sentences for "state prisoner"

  • Had Charles remained much longer in his stormy capital, it is probable that the Commons would have found a plea for making him, under outward forms of respect, a state prisoner.

  • He had, at the age when the passions are most impetuous and when levity is most pardonable, spent some months in Scotland, a King in name, but in fact a state prisoner in the hands of austere Presbyterians.

  • She could not bear that this sweet Aunt Emily should guess that she was a state prisoner, kept in constant view.

  • Barbara evidently dislikes the poor child, and treats her like a state prisoner!

  • Even after they had sent Delessart a State prisoner to Orleans, his inveteracy continued, and in September the same year he went to Versailles to enjoy the sight of the murder of his former master.

  • Students of English judicial history, with all their recollections of the strange processes by which criminal courts in Ralegh's age leaped to a presumption of a State prisoner's guilt, stand aghast at his conviction.

  • It has been imagined that the plan was to incapacitate him by law for employment, and to hold him a State prisoner.

  • He travelled as a State prisoner in charge of a keeper, Blount.

  • On delivering himself up, M'Kay was immediately placed in confinement, and shortly after brought to trial, for aiding and abetting in the escape of a State prisoner.

  • But indeed, as I told you before, my lady, your husband is a State prisoner; truly is he, and therefore may I not interfere with him.

  • They proceeded to Kenilworth Castle, where Edward was kept as a state prisoner, and in a cruel, heartless manner pointed out to him the errors he had committed as their reason for desiring him to resign his crown.

  • Lady Badlesmere was sent to the Tower of London as a state prisoner.

  • Isabella had been removed to Sunning Hill, where she was treated as a state prisoner, and kept in ignorance of the fate of her husband.

  • Having capitulated, and surrendered himself to the Papal Government, he is now confined in the Castle of St Angelo as a state prisoner.

  • Should the King accede to this, France will be completely disarmed and at the mercy of the Allies, and the King himself a state prisoner.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after they had been; close upon; come between; double white; eight yards; later periods; less amount; spiritual sense; spring flowers; state and local governments; state church; state courts; state enterprises; state interference; state legislature; state monopoly; state organization; state prisoner; state that; stated before; stated that; statement made; strictly speaking; think more; thorough study; though when