gaol-bird

After half an hour, I had come up with two small conclusions: First, my captor was a man of no mean ability, a remarkably intelligent, efficient, and daring individual who showed no signs of the gaol-bird in his manner and who was, therefore, among the more successful criminals.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

After half an hour, I had come up with two small conclusions: First, my captor was a man of no mean ability, a remarkably intelligent, efficient, and daring individual who showed no signs of the gaol-bird in his manner and who was, therefore, among the more successful criminals.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

I had a box seat, and as we drove through the avenues of trees, down the roads, with the gardens of the comfortable-looking bungalows a mass of green foliage and tropical blooms on either side of us, I felt like a gaol-bird escaped from his cage.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

One day, however, I heard from a more experienced "gaol-bird" that permission to write a letter was sometimes granted if "on business."

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

In spite of his own anger, something far from being either assumed or inconsiderable, Lanyard was fain to pause, a few paces from the deck-house, and laugh quietly at a vast and incoherent booming which was resounding in the room he had just quitted -- Captain Osborne trying to do justice to the emotions inspired in his virtuous bosom by the cheek of this damned gaol-bird.

The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Why, a fellow like that -- he's a regular gaol-bird.

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

He straightens himself up, sitting on his straw like a gaol-bird, and we see his bearded silhouette take the vague outline of a Chinese, while his round eye rolls and turns in the shadows.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

Rebel and traitor and gaol-bird though he be, he never injured me in word, thought, or deed .... '

Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

"That 'poor man,' Betty," answered Patricia in a hard voice, "is a criminal, a felon, guilty of some dreadful, sordid thing, a gaol-bird reclaimed from the gallows and sent here to pollute the air we breathe."

Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

The stranger was a cadaverous-looking man, in a brand-new suit of clothes, evidently ready-made, but he still wore on his face the curious yellow tinge which is the special mark of the recently liberated gaol-bird.

The Daffodil Mystery Edgar Wallace 1903