How To Use Prison house In A Sentence

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
As an 1825 poem has it: "Fearing the winters/ Endless and icy/ Nobody will visit/ This wretched country/ This vast prison house for exiles.
A quarter of a mile in either direction, looking out along the shallow canyon of the sand-hills, Dag Daughtry could see the sentry-boxes of the guards, themselves armed and more prone to kill than to lay hands on any escaping pest-man, much less persuavively discuss with him the advisability of his return to the prison house. CHAPTER XXI
This prison houses the most dangerous criminals in Britain, those classed as "category A'.
The object has a certain objectivity about it (a certain whereness, though we do not wish to restrict this ubiety to the prison house of the page).

Vladimir Lenin, who made the rise of Stalin possible, had called czarist Russia a “prison house of nations,” but the Soviet Union far outdid its predecessor in that regard. The Great Experiment
Race and gender ceased to be prison houses and became optional identities. The Times Literary Supplement
At Tobermory, on the west of Scotland, a little handful of men have a strong faith that a sunken galleon from the Spanish Armada is the prison house of great treasure, and their faith is productive of an energy which makes zealous quest. Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers