prisoner

• What this involved I shall show when opportunity arises; but the release of the accomplices as well as the prisoner was an even more extraordinary extension of powers. —  The Story of Rouen
• Sergeant Schneider started forward, evidently fearing that the prisoner was about to attack his officer. —  Witch-Doctors
• She may naturally be supposed to have desired to save her instrument and agent from suffering the penalties of the crime which she herself had planned and had instigated him to attempt; but the chief source of her extreme reluctance to surrender the prisoner was her fear of the revelations which he would be likely to make implicating her. —  Peter the Great
• The public accuser then comes forward, stating that the prisoner has been accused by a number of witnesses of Judaism. —  The Phantom Ship
• The prison diet now, however, began to tell seriously upon me In England and America I believe a prisoner is allowed to maintain himself, under certain restrictions, whilst he is waiting for trial; but in Scotland he is compelled to subsist on a diet which is considered the main ingredient in the punishment of the very lowest class of offenders whose sentences do not exceed a few months' imprisonment. —  Six Years in the Prisons of England

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