How To Use Jailer In A Sentence

  • If Sidacai cared to lodge a formal complaint, the jailers would suffer punishment. probably he would not complain.
  • But the Lady Castlewood went back from him, putting back her hood, and leaning against the great stanchioned door which the gaoler had just closed upon them. The History of Henry Esmond
  • Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham 
  • 480 Then the gaolers built the cage481 over him and left him therein, lorn and lone, whereupon longing and consternation entered into him and the tongue of his case recited in extempore verse, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • What I was principally leading to, was to tell you how ingenious I am in my contrivances and pretences to blind my gaoleress, and to take off the jealousy of her principals on my going down so often into the garden and poultry-yard. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
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  • The jailer was the gate, the prison cell, the executioner and sometimes, if you were lucky, your friend. Five days inside a Taliban jail
  • Between themselves they arrange that the wedding shall take place when next Pizarro makes his monthly visit to Seville to give an account of his stewardship, and the jailer admonishes the youthful pair to put money in their purses in a song of little distinction, but containing some delineative music in the orchestra suggesting the rolling and jingling of coins. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
  • His confederates steal the horse in question from a jailer who is keeping it for evidence and substitute it with another animal painted to look identical.
  • It was officially said that he had intimidated his helot jailer into giving him the knife, and had so mangled himself.
  • Maddened by captivity, he became aware that his only escape lay in imitating his human jailers. Times, Sunday Times
  • the woman charged that her jailer was a fondler
  • Like a jailer who throws you into a prison cell while slipping you the key, Europe simultaneously gave the world despotism and freedom.
  • After a deeply traumatic childhood, where his father left him to rot in Newgate prison, Sweeney takes violent revenge against the gaoler who tormented him in prison.
  • The jailer locked them in the innermost prison. Christianity Today
  • It's no longer the quiet voice of a caregiver, but the cutting reprimand of a jailer.
  • It will lay on you a far more solemn and awful clutch, and like a jailer with his hand on the culprit's shoulder, will 'constrain' you into the presence of the Judge. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
  • An order from the Justice, which had been accompanied by a hefty bribe for the gaoler. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • Another supporter under the name jailer wrote: "Good to see that Walter is not taking any of their nonsense. The Daily Record - Home
  • As I got near to the avenue gate, instead of the school on my left there was a prison; and at the door a little thick-set jailer, three feet high and much deformed, and a little deformed jaileress no bigger than himself, were cunningly watching me out of the corners of their eyes, and toothlessly smiling. Peter Ibbetson
  • Once we get all those annoyers into prison and they start annoying their jailers, what them? Charge them with being annoying, fine them for being so annoying.
  • You don't want to be his jailer but he needs to respect your feelings. The Sun
  • The jailer shrugged his shoulders and left the chamber.
  • He has not yet got my letter: and while I was contriving here how to send my officious gaoleress from me, that I might have time for the intended interview, and had hit upon an expedient, which I believe would have done, came my aunt, and furnished me with a much better. Clarissa Harlowe
  • For the betterment of all, they shouldered the burden of being the huntsmen and butchers, the judges and jailers, the hangmen and executioners, the grave-diggers and cere-clothiers. The Codex Continual » “Nine are the Candles”-An Excerpt
  • But I was doomed to live; and, in two months, found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon. Chapter 4
  • While he wondered he heard the shouts of the gaolers, the cries of the prisoners outside the zareeba and in the direction of the river. The Four Feathers
  • So after that it was quite jolly, and Albert made a group with Ignatieff and Ellenborough and me, and questioned me about our acquaintance, and I made light of my captivity and escape, and said what a charming jailer Ignatieff had been, and the brute just stood impassive, with his tawny head bowed over his cup, and looking me over with that amazing half-blue, half-brown eye. Fiancée
  • Goldston told jailers he was doing so because he wanted cigarettes, magazines and Los Angeles defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.
  • One day it happens that a careless jailer leaves his keys in the doors of this menagerie, and the wild beasts rampage with savage roars through the horrified town.
  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy 
  • After these experiences they set out to rebuild the prison system, from the perspective of prisoners turned gaolers.
  • Among her initial instructions to Bedingfield was the warning that he was to carry out his duties as jailer "in suche goode & honorable sorte as maye be agreable to or honor and hir [Elizabeth's] estate & degree. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • Upon processing me, the jailer joked that I had just missed juvenile detention.
  • According to press reports, the two British detainees have been told by their military jailers to plead guilty and accept 20-year prison sentences or go to trial and face certain conviction and the real threat of execution.
  • But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
  • But now his home had become a dungeon, where the gaoler had once been his to command and ignore. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Among her initial instructions to Bedingfield was the warning that he was to carry out his duties as jailer "in suche goode & honorable sorte as maye be agreable to or honor and hir [Elizabeth's] estate & degree. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • The Republic ultimately reached reconciliation, though, with the ‘political’ savages when it amnestied them and investigated their jailers.
  • Sir Hudson Lowe KCB, GCMG 28 July 1769 - 10 January 1844 was an Anglo-Irish military commander, best known as the Governor of St Helena, where he was the "gaoler" of Napoleon Bonaparte. Archive 2009-06-07
  • So I called the jailer, who seemed to be a kind man, and paid the dollar. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
  • She sighed in her progress, jangling her keys like a gaoler in a novel by Zola. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • He heard the shriek of the gale, the clanking of the flag against its mast, the jangling of the jailers chain and his heavy footfall.
  • A man accused of stabbing his wife to death faces more charges after investigators say he threatened to stab a jailer with three shanks he made behind bars.
  • Sometimes prisoners lie and sometimes their jailers do, but Dr. Brooks and his fellow warriors for the Lord haven't had much success in discerning which is which. Rotten fruit
  • I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses! Cymbeline
  • By the end of my second month in prison, one of the jailers made himself known as a revolutionist in touch with the organization. Chapter 18: The Shadow of Sonoma
  • His jailers are Hirst's menacing, gangsterish, Cockney-accented servants: Foster, played coolly as the smoother, more obviously gay one by David Walliams (of TV's "Little Britain" in his first "straight theater" role); and Briggs, played by Nick Dunning, as the one who delivers the Pinteresquely boring road-directions monologue while shimmering with suppressed violence. Contemplating Artistic Mysteries
  • Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham 
  • At the second visit of Gryphus, Cornelius, contrary to all his former habits, asked the old jailer, with the most winning voice, about her health; but Gryphus contented himself with giving the laconical answer, -- The Black Tulip
  • He had written something and hidden it away to keep it from the jailer.
  • Another object of horror I found between the great hall of judgment and the luxurious apartment of the chief jailer (primo custode), the Dominican friar who presides over this diabolical establishment. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
  • Then, my dear, the man seems already to be meditating vengeance against me for an aversion I cannot help: for yesterday my saucy gaoleress assured me, that all my oppositions would not signify that pinch of snuff, holding out her genteel finger and thumb: that Clarissa Harlowe
  • It's hardly a surprise those locked up should take advantage of a mistake by their jailers. The Sun
  • But now his home had become a dungeon, where the gaoler had once been his to command and ignore. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • If Sidacai cared to lodge a formal complaint, the jailers would suffer punishment. probably he would not complain.
  • Hughes's central concern was to display the suffering of the convicts and the viciousness of their gaolers.
  • The jailer did violence to prisoners.
  • His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
  • Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy 
  • You don't want to be his jailer but he needs to respect your feelings. The Sun
  • She was trapped in a prison and her jailer refused to release her.
  • The jailer locked them in the innermost prison. Christianity Today
  • I am in my contrivances and pretences to blind my gaoleress, and to take off the jealousy of her principals on my going down so often into the garden and poultry-yard. Clarissa Harlowe
  • But no sooner had the gaoler's feet touched the fairy ring, than he saw and heard like the rest, and he called lustily to the chaplain to come and stop the unhallowed measure. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
  • Their jailers dished out their punishment.
  • Jack taking over as the "jailer" --- the show ends with this.... just a theory LOSTCasts 85: Ab Aeterno
  • Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer.
  • He heard from his prison the bridge re-echo with the tread of horses, and would ask of his jailer respecting those who were arriving, whether they might be his judges, or those desirous of witnessing his punishment. Anne of Geierstein
  • Gaolers were amateurs and for a few bawbees you could escape.
  • While my father remained in the garden, I sent my dutiful compliments to my mother, with inquiry after her health, by Shorey, whom I met accidentally upon the stairs; for none of the servants, except my gaoleress, dare to throw themselves in my way. Clarissa Harlowe
  • If President Obama has taken the CIA out of the prison business, he should also take the CIA out of the short-term jailer business as well. RINF Alternative News Media: Daily Breaking News
  • Tina explains that turnkey archaically means jailer and holder of the keys.
  • Thirty minutes later, after McCloud had left the jail — and had time to think of what other charges he could come up with — he called the jailer and added another charge against Conover; pointing a laser at an officer. No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#5)
  • ‘My ingenuity obtained my pardon: the lady being unable to forbear laughing throughout the whole affair, to find both so uncommonly tricked; her gaoleress her prisoner, safe locked up, and as much pleased as either of us.’ Clarissa Harlowe
  • The county's police force is recruiting civilian jailers - or custody support staff - as part of a shake-up of its custody services.
  • In The Abduction from the Seraglio, in The Magic Flute, the prisoners will be guarded by jailers whose vigilance must be outwitted.
  • There will be so few jobs available that many foolish young men and women will be gulled into becoming their own families' jailers and murderers.
  • And I haven't mentioned the deep manly love that Palamon and Arcite profess for one another when they are not competing to win Emilia, nor Emilia's early professed deep womanly love for the otherwise unmentioned Flavinia (though if I was directing this I would make her the jailer's daughter). Linkspam for 28-5-2009
  • They then separated; and as Folliard was passing through the hatch, he called the jailer into his own office, and strove to prevail upon him, not ineffectually, to smuggle in some wine and other comforts to the baronet. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • The jailer was the first to enter; he placed upon the table the provisions, which the kind-hearted governor called dainties, and then left the room. Ten Years Later
  • The possibility that the jailbreak was planned jointly by the prisoners and at least one of their jailers is also being investigated.
  • It's hardly a surprise those locked up should take advantage of a mistake by their jailers. The Sun
  • A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled! The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
  • Arian bishop Patrophilus, whom Eusebius calls his jailer, (Baronius, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O! there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses. Act V. Scene IV. Cymbeline
  • It boasts the conventional prison gateway, the solid-looking, nail-studded door, the low, worn archway which the better deserves the qualification "cyclopean," because the jailer's peephole or _judas_ looks out like a single eye from the front of the building. Lost Illusions
  • But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
  • If your community needs judges, jailers, or even hangmen, and you are qualified, he declares, sign up!
  • Goldston told jailers he was doing so because he wanted cigarettes, magazines and Los Angeles defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.
  • He is a doomed, condemned man and his sentence will not be commuted by soft-headed jailers. Schumer asks for U.N. condemnation of Libya
  • By his efforts the jailer attained at length to the directorship of all the prisons of Cho-sen; the Governor ultimately betook himself to the Sacred City to be prime minister to the King, while Yi Chin Ho became the King's boon companion and sat at table with him to the end of a round, fat life. A NOSE FOR THE KING
  • Maddened by captivity, he became aware that his only escape lay in imitating his human jailers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Witli Gen. Hogan's report on tbe comprint of Col. Conoll; agiunst Jm. Jewell; consider Jewell a verj necessary person in the prison, although it maj be expedient to limit the jailer's power over prisoners of war. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

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