calaboose

• “The calaboose is a miserable dark room of two apartments, one with a small loop-hole in the wall, the other a dungeon without light or ventilation.”

  What I Saw in California

• “On this deck, too, was the prisoners 'cell, usually called the "calaboose," very rarely without an occupant, with an armed sentry on guard outside.”

  Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'

• “The horizontal ray struck through the grating of the "calaboose" at the corner of the godown I was skirting.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “And Signet, guttersnipe, beach comber, and midnight assassin, was lodged in the "calaboose," built stoutly in a corner of the biggest and reddest of the Dutchman's godowns.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “When the railroad tapped the village, and it was incorporated (1884) and assumed an official worldliness with its mayor and councilmen, it lost its isolation, summer visitors flocked in, and a "calaboose" was needed for the benefit of the sojourners!”

  Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making

• “On Monday morning he had ventured forth from his office in the long-deserted "calaboose," resplendent in a brand-new nickel-plated star.”

  The Daughter of Anderson Crow

• “The "calaboose" was situated at the far end of Main”

  The Daughter of Anderson Crow

• “He stayed down to the 'calaboose' to guard the prisoners," said”

  The Daughter of Anderson Crow

• “They entered the "calaboose," which now had all the looks and odours of”

  The Daughter of Anderson Crow

• “He was the only inmate of the "calaboose"; therefore, he was in no doubt as to the identity of the person to whom so many different terms of opprobrium were being applied by certain loud-voiced citizens in the crowd.”

  Viola Gwyn

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