Prisoners

Examples

• 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.
• The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Prisoners ten thousand times more distinguished than thou have died within these walls, and their fate hath never been known! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The prisoners were paroled, the artillery parked and the small arms and ammunition destroyed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They were in the end all sunk, and, with the exception of two or three prisoners, the crews drowned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Camp Jackson surrendered without a fight and the garrison was marched down to the arsenal as prisoners of war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An immediate pursuit must have resulted in the capture of a considerable number of prisoners and probably some guns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The column from New Bern was attacked on the 8th of March, at Wise's Forks, and driven back with the loss of several hundred prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some works to the right and left were also carried with the guns in them--six in number--and a few more prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When I arrived there I rode my horse over the parapet just as Wright's three thousand prisoners were coming out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are prisoners here sometimes, who are not in such a devil of a hurry to be tried. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Our captures in all amounted to 169 guns, besides small-arms, with full supplies of ammunition, and 2,083 prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the morning of the 27th the crossing was effected with but little loss, the enemy losing thirty or forty, taken prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Had the attempt been made the garrison of Vicksburg would have been drowned, or made prisoners on the Louisiana side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• How think you, Sir Brian, were we not better make a virtue of necessity, and compound with the rogues by delivering up our prisoners? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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