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hard labour

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hard labour
Criminal law (formerly) the penalty of compulsory physical labour imposed in addition to a sentence of imprisonment: abolished in England in 1948


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He was convicted, but with extenuating circumstances, and condemned to hard labour in Siberia for fifteen years.
But it was not the horrors of prison life, not the hard labour, the bad food, the shaven head, or the patched clothes that crushed him.
This is a new accession indeed to the hard labour of forming the youthful mind at Limmeridge, and I heartily wish you well through it, Mr.
 
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