"Prisoner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gravurajxo. Printer presisto, preslaboristo. Printed matter presajxo. Printing-press presilo. Prior (title) cxefabato. Prior antauxa. Priority antauxeco. Prism prismo. Prison malliberejo. Prisoner malliberulo. Prisoner of war militkaptito. Private privata. Privateer marrabisto. Privation senigo. Privilege privilegio. Privily sekrete. Prize premio. Prize sxati. Probable kredinda—ebla. Probability kredebleco, ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... of gallantry. The Castilian showed himself to be a generous man. Thinking that he would be able to recuperate himself for the favour granted out of his guest's ransom, he hinted quietly to the people commissioned to guard the prisoner, that they might gratify him in this respect. Thereupon a certain Don Hiios de Lara y Lopez Barra di Pinto, a poor captain, whose pockets were empty in spite of his genealogy, and who had been for some time thinking of seeking his fortune at the Court of France, fancied that by procuring ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 2 • Honore de Balzac
... and delivered up others of her crew to the English naval authorities. The female convicts had been carried off by the soldiers, and when the Rev. William Gregory arrived at Monte [Sidenote: 1798-1807] Video (a prisoner of war taken in the missionary ship Duff on her second voyage), he found these women there. They had by their conduct given the Spaniards a curious idea of the morality of Englishwomen.[F] Among the rebellious soldiers were many foreigners, ...
— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
... elder."—Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass., i, 375. "While a Minute Philosopher, not six foot high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."—Berkley's Alciphron, p. 151. "The wall is ten foot high."—Harrison's Gram., p. 50. "The stalls must be ten foot broad."—Walker's Particles, p. 201. "A close prisoner in a room twenty foot square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty foot southward, not to walk twenty foot northward."—LOCKE: Joh. Dict., w. Northward. "Nor, after all this pains and industry, did they think themselves ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... of his House and title, the fourth Viscount was a loyal and devoted Jacobite. He fought in 1715, and again in 1745, when he was killed at Culloden. After his death the penalty of his ill-fated zeal descended on his family. His wife Margaret, daughter of Lord Nairne, was taken prisoner, and kept in Edinburgh Castle from February to September, 1746; his son James, who had attended his father at Culloden, suffered attainder, and for many years the title was withheld. There was more caution ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
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