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Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 27] in southwest Georgia; imprisoned Union soldiers died under wretched conditions. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 99] well-known prison in Attica, New York; remembered for its riot (1971). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 182] Turkish emperor confined to a cage by Tamburlaine. [Br. Drama: Tamburlaine the Great in Magill I, 950] originally penological, now generalized symbol. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 176] Paris prison stormed on July 14, 1789. [Fr. Hist.: Worth, 21] Robert F. Stroud (1890–1963), convicted murderer, became ornithologist in prison. [Am. Culture: Misc.] Indian dungeon in which overcrowding suffocated prisoners. [Br. Hist.: Harbottle, 45–46] held in prison for two years under dreadful conditions. [Am. Lit.: Bernard Malamud The Fixer] captain held captive by mutinous slaves. [Am. Lit.: Benito Cereno] Edmond Dantes; wrongly imprisoned in the dungeons of Chateau D’If. . [Fr. Lit.: The Count of Monte Cristo, Magill I, 158–160]
struggles to stay alive in a Soviet prison camp. [Russ. Lit.: Solzhenitzyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch] Guiana island penal colony (1852–1938); Alfred Dreyfus among famous prisoners there. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 754] chain forged to fetter wolf, Fenris. [Norse Myth.: LLEI, I: 326] portrays three months behind bars in France. [Am. Lit.: The Enormous Room] prison where former professor Farragut, who had killed his brother, witnesses the torments and chaos of the penal system. [Am. Lit.: Cheever Falconer in Weiss, 151] walled up to die in catacomb niche. [Am. Lit.: “The Cask of Amontillado” in Portable Poe, 309–316] Mary Stuart’s final prison and place of execution (1587). [Br. Hist.: Grun, 260] incarcerated in Stalag 13, unlikeliest of POW camps. [TV: Terrace, I, 357–358] account of four years in the fortress-prison of Omsk. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The House of the Dead in Benét, 480] imprisoned for life, spends all his nights in blissful dreams of existence with his beloved. [Br. Lit. & Am. Opera: G. du Maurier Peter Ibbetson in Magill I, 736] the oldest military prison (est. 1874); also the name of a state penitentiary. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 984] born and grew up in the prison where for twenty years her father is incarcerated for debt. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Little Dorrit] mystery prisoner; legendary contender for Louis XIV’s throne. [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 460, 555] lost memory during 18-year term in France. [Br. Lit.: A Tale of Two Cities] ancient London prison, long used for incarcerating debtors. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 640] famed jail of London in centuries past. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 754] . (Samuel) imprisoned for refusing to pay dam-ages in a breach-of-promise suit. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Pickwick Papers] poem by Lord Byron; based on imprisonment of François de Bonnivard. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 817]
political prisoner held in isolation and brutally questioned. [Br. Lit.: Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon in Magill I, 187] famous western California prison (established in 1852); the subject of many songs. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2419] notoriously harsh state prison at Ossining, New York. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 219] de Boeuf’s castle, where he imprisoned Rowena, Rebecca, and Isaac. [Br. Lit.: Walter Scott Ivanhoe] famed as jail. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1094] treacherous 13th-century count of Pisa, imprisoned and starved to death with his sons and grandsons. [Ital. Poetry: Inferno] spent nineteen years in prison for stealing loaf of bread. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In this postscript, William of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland, condemned Cornelius van Baerle to imprisonment for life. Rising in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life imprisonment when the latter said: "Yes, I know," assented the Malefactor - "three years' imprisonment and the preaching. |
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