turnkey's

In one of the turnkey's rooms in the new gaol is to be seen an article of harness, which at first creates surprise to the mind of the beholder, who considers what animal of the brute creation exists of so diminutive a size as to admit of its use.

For the term of his natural life 2004

At one time, if we may believe the turnkey at the Marshalsea prison, William Dorrit had been a pianist, a fact which raised him greatly in the turnkey's opinion.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

My mind was still too unsettled to enjoy masquerading, notwithstanding the temptation of the turnkey's wardrobe; and I felt all that absence of accommodation to circumstances, that want of plasticity, that failure of grasping at every hair's-breadth of enjoyment, which is declared by foreigners to form the prodigious deficiency of John Bull.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

His countenance exhibits a picture of despair; the forlorn state of his mind is displayed in every limb, and his exhausted finances, by the turnkey's demand of prison fees, not being answered, and the boy refusing to leave a tankard of porter, unless he is paid for it.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

I now obeyed the command; went to the little shrine where the turnkey's wife had opened her

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

Nevertheless, I did not hesitate to approve the turnkey's disposal of the suspected felon, and begged him to make no apologies or give himself concern as to the quality of the article that could afford us

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Through the opened door a figure descended, and by an illuminating swing of the turnkey's lantern she saw that it was Bucky.

Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

William Dorrit had been a pianist, a fact which raised him greatly in the turnkey's opinion.

Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

There was a guard-room and a turnkey's lodge outside.

The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale Arthur Judson Brown 1909

Roddy had picked up the turnkey's lantern and had given it to General

The White Mice Richard Harding Davis 1890