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- a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
How To Use Newgate In A Sentence
- Cambridge, when he sent _Yellowplush_ out upon the world as a satirist on the doings of gentlemen generally; when he wrote his _Catherine_, to show the vileness of the taste for what he would have called Newgate literature; and _The Hoggarty Diamond_, to attack bubble companies; and Thackeray
- And it was highly likely that the IRS read the foreign editions and would be waiting for him when he walked out of Newgate Prison. CORMORANT
- And maybe this time they will drop you in the Marshalsea or Newgate, without recourse to a sponging house. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- Others they have cast into Newgate among the most facinorous and vile persons.
- Living in the shadow of Newgate Prison, Sweeney Todd tries to carve out a quiet and simple life as a barber.
- Newgate for six months, the statutable penalty for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, which was maliciously tendered to him by a magistrate. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
- You met him in Newgate Street; Which way was he going?
- Following St Johns Street opposite Newgate Street are public gardens containing columns, a reconstructed hypocaust and various building fragments.
- 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.
- Pulchre's bell_, the great bell of St. Sepulchre's Holborn, close to Newgate, always begins to toll a little before the hour of execution, under the bequest of Richard Dove, who directed that an exhortation should be made to "... prisoners that are within, Who for wickedness and sin are appointed to die, Give ear unto this passing bell. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]