Usage examples (5)

• I remember the reporting of the "gaolbird" case in "Chess" (Sutton Coldfield, sufficient address).
• In a letter to a Mr Golding, Mr Wood had indicated that if Mr Morry was in the new Welsh Chess Union, Mr Wood was out; he referred to Mr Morry as “this ex-gaolbird”.
• 'Tis a runaway gaolbird by the look of him for whom we have no sort of use here.
• François of Corbeuil, Count of Montcorbier, stood in a very different relation to the Lady Katherine from that of the lowly poet and gaolbird who had rhymed and sighed...