The "calaboose" was situated at the far end of Main. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
"He stayed down to the 'calaboose' to guard the prisoners," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
They entered the "calaboose," which now had all the looks and odours of. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
The horizontal ray struck through the grating of the "calaboose" at the corner of the godown I was skirting. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
"calaboose," and went to work noiselessly on the small iron-grilled window of the settlement-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Pride of Palomar] Reference
I visited the calaboose, which had two apartments. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Blanc's house to get you let out of de calaboose; M. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Tell me who, yes, who is going down to the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Slipknot"] Reference
"Not much like the calaboose at Middletown," he observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
The city calaboose was an institution apart from the county jail. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
They left him in the calaboose with whatever reflections were his. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
But don't pull stuff raw enough to get us clapped into the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
They got to 'resting them and they filled the calaboose full that night. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
"What are you going to do with that old brigand you've got locked in the calaboose?". From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
But mind, the three waifs were never in the town; only on the beach and in the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
Once we're in the calaboose, health care is as free-flowing as, well ... as prison stripes. From Wordnik.com. [The Answer to Health Care is a "Crime"] Reference
Greed would have urged the constable to haul to the calaboose every stranger who wore gloves. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
Trot 'em 'long, boys, to the calaboose; I'll get the hunner dollar, an 'liquor up all' round. '. From Wordnik.com. [Bond and Free: A Tale of the South] Reference
It was well known that on the last Fourth of July Milt Baker had been shut into the calaboose at. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
His first step was to go to the calaboose, where he managed to obtain an interview with Hatchie. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
In this condition, without knowing why or by whom he was assailed, he was hurried away to the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Morgan was not at all confident of the retaining powers of the calaboose, neither was he greatly concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
I've just heard about some Cuban prisoners in the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow's End] Reference
From what I heard 'em say, Larkin just dodged the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Range] Reference
These turbulent spirits are at once seized and cooled in the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863] Reference
There's nothing like six month in the calaboose to round out one's resume. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from SOA World Magazine] Reference
Anyways, this is not the first time he has been clapped into the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference
Just let him be sent to the calaboose a few times, and thoroughly dressed down!. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference
The man set fire to the calaboose with those very matches, and burnt himself up. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
Thee'll be back soon with thy folly cured after I have bailed thee from the calaboose!. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
"Much better 'n the calaboose in El Paso," he muttered, "or the brickyard in Chicago.". From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
An army might lose enthusiasm and prestige if it spent a night or two in the calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
The calaboose stood in a sunflower patch, -- an old hut with a barred window and a padlock on the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
You'll be slippin 'round arter hours some time er nudder, an you'll slip bodaciously inter de calaboose. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings] Reference
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