bridewell

• So, last night at 11. 14pm, having just eaten a meal of falafels bathed in dandelion juice, they officially ended all agreements and contracts with Urban Splash and squatted bridewell police station. —  Indymedia Ireland
• Before he was quite three years old his parents removed to Bandon, County Cork, where the father, who professed the Protestant religion, received the appointment of bridewell-keeper. —  The Dock and the Scaffold
• The slave laws (called the "_codenoir_"), adapted for the Southern States, must, however, be excepted, for it is notorious, that to subserve the ends of interested parties, they have been framed so as to present what may with propriety be termed a concatenation of entanglement and injustice to the slave subjects; the very wording of many of these enactments, carrying unmistakable evidence of their being concocted for the almost sole protection of the slave-owners Adjoining the Town-hall, or separated only by an avenue, is a heavy, monastic-looking building, used as a bridewell, and called the City Penitentiary. —  An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States
• Where it differed from the bridewell was in its walls. —  The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
• A brief retrospect must dispose of his intermediate history When he left us he went to the county bridewell, where he remained until the assizes, an interval of about a month. —  It Is Never Too Late to Mend

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