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  • The Courts will either fall in line or be ignored (the President fears no paper), as with still-dungeoned U.S. citizen Jose Padilla.

    The Will To Be Bound Is All We Really Have 2007

  • Satan only could tell what; here was a white night-capped man coming bodily from the grave; here was my own sister Annie committed to a highwayman, and mother in distraction; most of all — here, there, and where — was my Lorna stolen, dungeoned, perhaps outraged.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The domestics were directed to keep a sharp look-out; and, as soon as a figure was seen approaching that appeared to be a creditor or of the State functionary tribe, the blinds of the abode were lowered, the dog Turk was dungeoned, and every trace of there being inhabitants vanished.

    Balzac 2003

  • Thoughts of Camoens continued to impinge on his mind, and in imagination he saw his hero dungeoned and laid in iron writing his Lusiads.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • They'd had a bad time: Parkes had escaped with binding and hammering, but Loch had been dungeoned and shackled and put to the iron collar, and from what he'd seen he suspected that some of the others had been tortured to death.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • They'd had a bad time: Parkes had escaped with binding and hammering, but Loch had been dungeoned and shackled and put to the iron collar, and from what he'd seen he suspected that some of the others had been tortured to death.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • They'd had a bad time: Parkes had escaped with binding and hammering, but Loch had been dungeoned and shackled and put to the iron collar, and from what he'd seen he suspected that some of the others had been tortured to death.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Suppose you saw in one view all the blood of the witnesses of Christ, which had been let out of their veins by vain pretences, -- that you heard in one noise the doleful cry of all pastorless churches, dying martyrs, harbourless children of parents inheriting the promise, wilderness-wandering saints, dungeoned believers, wrested out by pretended zeal to peace and truth; -- and perhaps it may make your spirits tender as to this point.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • The domestics were directed to keep a sharp look-out; and, as soon as a figure was seen approaching that appeared to be a creditor or of the State functionary tribe, the blinds of the abode were lowered, the dog Turk was dungeoned, and every trace of there being inhabitants vanished.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

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