Convicts
[kən'vikts]
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To dream of seeing convicts, denotes disasters and sad news. To dream that you are a convict, indicates that you will worry over some affair; but you will clear up all mistakes. For a young woman to dream of seeing her lover in the garb of a convict, indicates she will have cause to question the character of his love.
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Examples
- This way for the runaway convicts! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe's broad shoulder, I looked all about for any sign of the convicts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There had been shrieks from among the women convicts; but they had been stilled, and a hush had succeeded. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Cowering forward for warmth and to make me a screen against the wind, the convicts were closer to me than before. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I said we had eighty thousand convicts employed on the railways in America--all of them under sentence of death for murder in the first degree. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Herbert was there, and Startop was there; but our boat was gone, and the two convicts were gone. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The direction that I took was not that in which my old home lay, nor that in which we had pursued the convicts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- On entering the city the troops were fired upon by the released convicts, and possibly by deserters and hostile citizens. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He says the convicts work well, and are quiet and peaceable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They even liberated the State convicts under promise from them that they would serve in the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In America we make convicts useful at the same time that we punish them for their crimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Murderers were not the only people liable to be hanged, and women convicts were not treated like ladies in undeserved distress. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At that time it was customary to carry Convicts down to the dock-yards by stage-coach. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Yorke, ere he turned, knew the four convicts of Birmingham were avenged. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The South, prior to the rebellion, kept bloodhounds to pursue runaway slaves who took refuge in the neighboring swamps, and also to hunt convicts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The two convicts were handcuffed together, and had irons on their legs,--irons of a pattern that I knew well. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Eight of us, five convicts and three sailors, said that we would not see it done. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Convicts, sergeant? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Supposed by convicts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As to the convicts, they went their way with the coach, and I knew at what point they would be spirited off to the river. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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