Jailer
['dʒelɚ]
Definition
(n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.
Edited by Leopold
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a jailer, denotes that treachery will embarrass your interests and evil women will enthrall you. To see a mob attempting to break open a jail, is a forerunner of evil, and desperate measures will be used to extort money and bounties from you.
Editor: Stacy
Examples
- Fagin,' said the jailer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You'll get your privileges soon enough,' retorted the jailer, 'and pepper with 'em. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I think that I should have gone crazy but for the sound of my approaching jailer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Through his most inveterate purposes, the dead Jailer of Harmony Jail had known these two faithful servants to be honest and true. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The jailer took the disengaged hand of Oliver; and, whispering him not to be alarmed, looked on without speaking. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Fortunately among the first I examined I found his jailer, and soon we had Kantos Kan with us in the throne room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- How should there be any, seeing that the old hard jailer of Harmony Jail had coined every waif and stray into money, long before? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Kill my jailer by a ruse, and trust to fate to lead me to the outer world in safety. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He ought to have been, a many times,' replied the jailer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The jailer touched him on the shoulder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Come on,' said the jailer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The jailer shrugged his shoulders. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Child-torturers, slave masters and drivers, I consign to the hands of jailers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Whatever his jailers considered that he needed was conveyed to his cell by night through a wicket. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The jailers had all left to join the fighters in the throne room, so we searched the labyrinthine prison without opposition. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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