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How to use gaol in a sentence

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Bind him fast or by Zeus, I shall see you rotting in gaol alongside this upstart vagabond!
Now, her 11 weeks in gaol have turned her into a soft, left-leaning namby-pamby.
The Parliamentarians were clapped in irons and taken away to Oxford to gaol.
Seeing as he's going to gaol either way, he may as well make a bit of money out of it.
He had various privileges in gaol, and a year later he went to the electric chair.
He had been at this particular gaol for several months, and had watched her grow in all the lawless skills there were.
At first in the General Eyre and later under the commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, they would hear criminal cases.
He would not then be able to say he was sentenced to six months gaol rather than got a bond.
The gaol was also used for a number of years to house the mentally insane, as lunatics had to be restrained and kept out of sight.
There was a sentimental love for an old con, an eager romanticising of gaol and crime and social delinquency.
In 1843 the gaol had a governor, two turnkeys and two guards but no matron for female prisoners until 1850 when the second stage of the gaol was completed.
Dominic explained that the story goes that, before her death, Lucy put a curse on all successive governors of the old gaol that they would die young.
That attack too was condemned by the then Minister for Justice, and yet the victim was ultimately locked up in gaol for several years.
About half of the juveniles awaiting trial in a local gaol are placed at Copenhagen Prisons.
But, the policy was in fact changed as was, more importantly, the practice in respect of smoking in the gaol concerned.
Using the Twitter service enabled James Karl Buck to get out of gaol by contacting all his contacts at once with the word: arrested.
Be it with colours, shapes or materials, the gaol is to set new standards and assert oneself in the competition landscape.
But she decided a needed a proper training regime if she was going to accomplish the gaol she had set herself: to finish a half-marthon.
Who does not recollect when Presbyterian and Methodist clergymen were sent to gaol because they dared to perform the ceremony of marriage?
The freelancer has since served a gaol term, and so too has the paper's royal correspondent.
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A man taken up 'not for sheep-stealing or any crime, but just for making a drop of poteen,' tells of his hardships in Galway gaol.
And were you not, for your audacity, left to brood ten days and nights in gaol?
He was answered by frogeye, who celebrated his latest release from gaol by attending the Potlicker Ball.
When we reached Montreal we were confined in a gaol where we remained three weeks.
Is it no punishment, sir, for an innocent man to lie several months in gaol?
Whereat that my mittimus must be made, and I sent to the gaol, there to lie till the quarter sessions.
You'll have to give me up as a bad job, and chuck me into gaol for the theft of Cremer's play.
At York, we were put in the gaol, where we were kept three weeks.
While they lasted the debtors gaol was the Gretna Green of London.
In the solitariness of a gaol, the energy of De Foe projected the Review.
They were apprehended, thrown into gaol, and brought to formal trial.
The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.
It is a small grey cottage in the meadows by the frome, opposite the gaol.
He was committed to gaol charged with treasonable practices!
The affricate in words like gaol is of French origin, from a Late Lat.
Isn't there two of us here, whose brothers is now in gaol along of him?
We will make out a case, and send the police to drag you off to gaol!
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