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  • noun Plural form of gaoler.

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Examples

  • Yours is worse than mine, my beloved, for your gaolers are your enemies, whereas mine have nothing personal against me.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Yours is worse than mine, my beloved, for your gaolers are your enemies, whereas mine have nothing personal against me.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Before the vast influx of civilians, officers who were not fit for full duties would fill positions such as gaolers, enquiry desk, communications etc.

    Please Be Patient While I Ignore You « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Having long grown out of their old Victorian gaolers' outfits, they remain anxious not to be pegged as cartoon goths.

    The Horrors on travel, tequila and hypersonic sound 2011

  • But I was doomed to live; and, in two months, found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • But I was doomed to live; and, in two months, found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • We had shifts of 8-10 Officers working round the clock doing what is now called response, the enquiry office staff were 1-2 Police Officers, the Custody Centre gaolers were 2-3 Police Officers, the Court Gaolers were 3-4 Police Officers

    Bad Vibrations And The Smell Of Benzine. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Oooh - you have managed to give your gaolers the slip for a moment and post to the outside world!!!

    So... Nalini Singh 2008

  • Front office staff in da EM PEE ESS are in revolt because they have been told they will have to become PCSOs, as will every civvie in due course, PLUS the huge number of jobs from gaolers to investigators that are advertised by an ever growing number of agencies to supply retired officers back to police farces with an ever growing skills shortage at an average £12 an hour.

    Homo Electric « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • The sad thing is, if the same jurisprudence rules (evidence, trial rights, etc.) that this administration has applied to their "enemies" was applied to their own (even admitted) acts, about 2/3 of the cabinet and most of the West Wing would be sitting in solitary confinement somewhere, dreading the next meeting with their gaolers.

    Balkinization 2007

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