prison-bars

The ill-fitting clothes, battered hands, and sunburned face remained; but these seemed the prison-bars through which she saw a great soul looking forth, inarticulate and dumb because of those feeble lips that would not give it speech.

Chapter 2 2010

On a larger scale, Les quatre cents coups moves from the freedom of Paris to fenced-in spaces, prison-bars, an institutional chill and solitude.

Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011

She love liberty; her soaring spirit beat its wings against the prison-bars of custom and convention; she was always yearning for a wider field.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The fact was, that at taw, prison-bars, or boxing, I was at the head of the school, but could not be brought to excel in the classics; and after having been flogged seven times, without its doing me the least good in my Latin, I refused to submit altogether

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

And he too, though as he lay awake through the dreary hours of the long night he said no word about the plan, felt, and felt more strongly as the dawn was breaking, that it would be mean to leave his daughter with a farewell kiss, knowing as he would do that he was leaving her within prison-bars, leaving her to the charge of jailers.

John Caldigate 2004

He did agree that, as regarded Hester, the prison-bars should be removed; but he did not think that she should be invited to walk forth with Mr. John Caldigate.

John Caldigate 2004

At last, the gray light of early dawn came creeping in through the prison-bars.

The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

That night she tried to join us in a game of prison-bars on the lawn, but had to sit down.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

That night she tried to join us in a game of prison-bars on the lawn, but had to sit down.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

And the same little boy, looking out through the prison-bars of the nursery-window, saw his mother take by the hand his weeping sister (much cast down by the fraternal wickedness) and lead her to the nest of another mother-bird, and then and there encourage her to perform the same act of spoliation.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various