Imprisoned

Examples

• You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have been here three days, continued Kantos Kan, but I have not yet found where Dejah Thoris is imprisoned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Shortly he printed another from the same source and was imprisoned three months for his pains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Could it be possible that the sense of unreality in which he felt himself imprisoned had communicated itself to his wife? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Franklin's great-grandfather had been imprisoned for writing sa tirical verses about some provincial magnate. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Thus as time went on, all Barsoom was covered with these imprisoned creatures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We should be imprisoned by it in this country, all, all alone, with no help; better die where we are. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At No. 4 liquid air imprisoned in a tube and tightly corked up, blows the stopper out in a few minutes with explosive effect. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Several bruised and bloody members of both parties were carried off by the police and imprisoned until the following morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Extraordinary how soon the noisome flavour of imprisoned sleep, becomes manifest in all such places that are ill cared for! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Marozia seized and imprisoned Pope John X (928), who speedily died under her care. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He was taken up, censured, and imprisoned for a month, by the speaker's warrant, I suppose, because he would not discover the author. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Its thick skull imprisoned its brain, and to the end it was low-browed and brutish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She felt as if she were caught at last by fate, imprisoned in some horrible and fatal trap. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Daedalus never wound so inextricable an error round Minotaur, as madness has woven about his imprisoned reason. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Delilah had imprisoned him and cut his hair off, too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He is wronged, betrayed, imprisoned--save him! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here the crowd, like a concourse of imprisoned demons, turns back, yelling, and is seen no more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Rosalie