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  • She is sharing a cell with another inmate who is in there for a long time so she is getting used to be a long-term prisoner.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • And in Jailhouse Romance (2001), made for Canadian TV, Wendy Rowland examines three couples in which the man is a long-term prisoner.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • And in Jailhouse Romance (2001), made for Canadian TV, Wendy Rowland examines three couples in which the man is a long-term prisoner.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Up the long avenue they came, with all the state with which the Earl had conducted Queen Mary to the lodge before she was absolutely termed a prisoner.

    Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Emily is being protected in her garden, cut off from male company, essentially a kind of prisoner.

    Walled Gardens Miglior acque 2006

  • Emily is being protected in her garden, cut off from male company, essentially a kind of prisoner.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • Dorcas heard her brother tapping on the partition between their rooms, as he did sometimes when they played "prisoner."

    The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • The two strolled out together down the street in the direction of the shanty where Curly was keeping his "prisoner."

    The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

  • -- I can't tell, Mrs. Jewkes, said I; for my lady holds my hand, and you see I am a kind of prisoner.

    Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Perhaps it's part of their protocol for subduing an unsubmissive "prisoner."

    The NarcoSphere - 2009

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