The gaoler was a very fat man with icy little eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
` Are you there? 'calls the gaoler in his gruff voice. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference
Those confined in them have the privilege of being able to call the gaoler when they like. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The gaoler was a kind man, and as I represented myself to be a free man, my case excited his sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America.] Reference
Every gaoler had left his post; gone no one knew whither. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
After a while the gaoler reminds them that the hour is over. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"I would not kill my gaoler, he is but performing his commands.". From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
Edward VI., and Mary, and, as Constable of the Tower, the gaoler. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Upon the expiration of this sentence he had been made under-gaoler. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
When the head-gaoler came round on Friday night I decided to tackle him. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
At intervals of ten minutes the gaoler opens the peep-hole and peers within. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
I was completely non-plussed at this confirmation of the head-gaoler's statement. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
The gaoler merely observed that I had not touched anything, but he made no comment. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Indeed, by the time I had swallowed the last morsel the gaoler entered with my tea. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
"But if I'm a prisoner you're my gaoler and you can let me out whenever you choose.". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The gaoler entered with a bowl containing some evil-looking and worse smelling soup. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
When the gaoler entered with my meals and stolidly declined to enter into conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
The gaoler closed the door, having orders to remain without, and left the cousins alone. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Arthur was awakened by his gaoler and made to follow him to a small door by the river-side. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
Those who could afford to do so, paid ls. per week for the use of a bed provided by the gaoler. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The gaoler was added to their company, and his function was intrusted to "Scates, the bricklayer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
One day the gaoler said to the latter as he entered, 'What a lot of water thou hast brought to-day!. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Serve up with bludgeons, handcuffs, a sentimental gaoler, and a large tureen of innocence preserved. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
In this great city you will be safe, for even your late gaoler would not recognize you in this dress. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Mademoiselle would at any rate find that if I were a gaoler I was one who looked well after his charge. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Shortly after he had gone the gaoler came to my cell with a sack of fresh straw to serve as a mattress. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
But ten minutes later the gaoler entered bearing two big trays upon which were arrayed the six courses. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
So when the gaoler came with my breakfast he found me in high spirits -- assumed for the occasion I may say. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
St Helena was chosen as the place of imprisonment, and Sir Hudson Lowe put over him as, in some sort, a gaoler. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
I was talking to the gaoler, but was looking beyond him at the prisoner opposite, greedily taking in the signs. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
My gaoler observed my condition, but said nothing, although he modified his customary boorish attitude towards myself. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
The gaoler, beholding this, detained the man and called in the magistrates, who extracted from him a confession of his guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
M----, the under-gaoler, came round next morning, I badgered him, but he would say no more than that the trial had not yet come off. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
The purses were brought in by the gaoler, who declared to me that, finding they contained money, he had put them in his pocket for safety. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
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