The prisoner aged rapidly after years of durance in the jail cell. From LearnThat.org.
Then said Musa, “Ask him why he is in durance of this column?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
As Murk languishes in durance vile, someone decides to change the game. From Wordnik.com. [October « 2009 « Maria Lectrix] Reference
No, but close by; held in durance in the capital, with liberators so near. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy in the Field] Reference
This means an approximately 90% reduction in durance vile and also in repetitive injuries. From Wordnik.com. [More technical notes on the All the Windwracked Stars revision] Reference
Then, out of regard for mats and cushions, he was kept in durance vile in the granary until he had licked his fur clean. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
I'm afraid I disagree: the threat of putting Paadilla back in durance vile hangs over any plea bargain, so the case is very much live. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Pulling the Plug on Padilla] Reference
This morning observed a garden spider, who had one of his own species in durance, holding him suspended, but without much appearance of a web. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks] Reference
Whom he in durance held, now, and long since. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
French, released from durance, were summoned to share. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
This formality achieved, he was led away to durance vile. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920] Reference
My turnout was taken from me, and I found myself in durance vile. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
Starvation confronts our compatriots suffering durance vile in Ruhleben. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
A number of other men were fellows in their durance on precisely the same grounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Meanwhile you might have the cabby look at the fellow in durance at the Collingwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
When, at last, we were released from durance vile, the Confederate army had retreated. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
But getting over there and getting Ch'ien out of durance vile is strictly up to the Society. From Wordnik.com. [What The Left Hand Was Doing] Reference
PUNCH, it is true, sings in durance, but we hear the ring of the bars mingling with the song. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
On the other hand, not one of the thousands of Northern prisoners escaping from the durance of a. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
By and by the house grew so lonely that I was fain to send for Leonora to make durance less vile. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Scarcely three moths had elapsed before he found himself again in durance vile for stealing horses. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
Unfortunately, his time was too short to allow of his seeing Malta after his release from durance vile. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Gloucester; whilst the other, being unable to get away from durance before eleven, was left out in the cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
I give thee thy liberty, set thee free from durance; and in lieu thereof impose on thee nothing but this. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
I had the honor of figuring among the unlucky ones; and, with my companions passed the night in durance vile. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
Many, many an hour did I employ in planning my escape; yet month upon month rolled on, and still I remained in durance. From Wordnik.com. [Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life] Reference
After two days of durance vile I was visited by three very wise-looking men, who, I understood, were some sort of lawyers. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
By and by the captain and myself were released from durance vile, and before twenty minutes elapsed the "revolt" was over. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
For the mightiest forces of nature lie in these elements, when forced into unnatural alliances, or chained up in durance vile. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
She was kept strictly in durance vile, for the Earl was a rigid warder, and did not even allow her to walk in Sherwood Forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference
Catiline conspirators; St. Paul, too, noblest of men, was here held in durance vile, and Popish tradition says St. Peter also. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Of the prisoners of war thus long detained in durance vile nearly a thousand were decoyed into a special train the night before the. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
"But you have not laughed at all, -- all this evening, at least," -- with a smile, -- "not since you discovered us in durance vile.". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Meanwhile the eighteen hundred English prisoners who had so long been kept in durance vile at Nooitgedacht, the next station on the rail to. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
The prisoners from No. 100, Audley Place, had not been conveyed to durance vile without one accident that had been attended with a fatal tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Of the charge against him at the king's exchequer, part had been adjusted according to its settlement, and he remained in durance for the balance. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
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