Prisoner
['prɪz(ə)nə] or ['prɪznɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who is confined in a prison.
(n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
Typist: Oliver
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Captive.
Checker: Lorenzo
Examples
- They say, don't they, he went on, that the secretary helped her to get away from her brute of a husband, who kept her practically a prisoner? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- By force of circumstance, because all the world combined to make the cage unbreakable, he had been too strong for her, he had kept her prisoner. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands, remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am here, replied De Bracy, but I am a prisoner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Opening this piece of paper in the next pause, the counsel looked with great attention and curiosity at the prisoner. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He added that he was now upon his way to see the prisoner himself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had seen the prisoner show these identical lists to French gentlemen at Calais, and similar lists to French gentlemen, both at Calais and Boulogne. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The prisoner counted the measurement again, and paced faster, to draw his mind with him from that latter repetition. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You are the prisoner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At length the sun rose so high that it struck a kindly ray as of hope or protection, directly down upon the old prisoner's head. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He further gave me leave to accompany the prisoner to London; but declined to accord that grace to my two friends. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And thou wert his prisoner? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He effected, by stratagem, the escape of the prisoner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He left his dead and nearly all his wounded in our hands, and about four hundred prisoners and several hundred horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Turning to the right and left he captured several guns and some hundreds of prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Had he seen our train coming, no doubt he would have let his prisoners escape to capture the train. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bring in the two prisoners, came the voice of Andr?Marty. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The prisoners even sometimes turn upon them and rend them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They are not prisoners, Zat Arras, replied the officer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Many prisoners die here in their chains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Quite a number of these prisoners I had been personally acquainted with before the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If these prisoners have not been allowed to depart, you will detain them until further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sherman at once ordered his prisoners to the front, moving them in a compact body in advance, to either explode the torpedoes or dig them up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The prisoners we now take show it, and the action of his army shows it unmistakably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The prisoners behind him were red Martians. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The prisoners were allowed to occupy their old camps behind the intrenchments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is, I think, no chance that they will proceed to any actual violence against their prisoners. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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