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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
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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
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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
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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
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Emily is being protected in her garden, cut off from male company, essentially a kind of prisoner.
Walled Gardens Miglior acque 2006
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Emily is being protected in her garden, cut off from male company, essentially a kind of prisoner.
Archive 2006-11-01 Miglior acque 2006
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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
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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
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-- 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
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Perhaps it's part of their protocol for subduing an unsubmissive "prisoner."
The NarcoSphere - 2009
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