Use dungeon in a sentence
Sentences ending with dungeon
- For a whole year I have dissembled to every one save to that poor mad soul Mathilde, who reads my heart in her wild way, to Voban, and to the rough soldier outside your dungeon. [11]
- In spite of will a sort of hopelessness went through me, for I could feel long blades of corn grown up about my couch, an unnatural meadow, springing from the earth floor of my dungeon. [11]
- So he called together some of his doctors of theology and went to her dungeon. [5]
- Firstly, he was to try escape by the small window of the dungeon. [11]
- Joan was taken there near the end of December, 1430, and flung into a dungeon. [5]
- Do you think the exhausted prisoner was allowed to rest and sleep after she had spent the small remnant of her strength in dragging her tired body back to the dungeon? [5]
- It came from that little dungeon. [5]
- Should he, after she had confessed her guilt, (for he was determined to force a confession from her) shut her up in a solitary dungeon? [10]
- I looked carefully round my dungeon. [11]
- Finally Cauchon broke out with a good deal of asperity in his voice and ordered Joan back to her dungeon. [5]
Short sentences using dungeon
- That dungeon was slow poison. [11]
Sentences containing dungeon two or more times
- We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed. [5]
More example sentences with the word dungeon in them
- Full three months went by in this fashion, and then, one day, who should step into my dungeon, torch in hand, but Gabord! [11]
- One of them was put in the dungeon and the other sent to recover the pistol within twelve hours, in default of which his brother would be hanged. [4]
- The doomed man was marched down a hall and out at a door-way into the covered Bridge of Sighs, through it and into the dungeon and unto his death. [5]
- Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
- Now when matters took so ill a turn, he pledged himself to get her safe away from the dungeon cell. [10]
- As I sat there in my dungeon, with Gabord cocking his head and his eyes rolling, that scene flashed on me, and I laughed freely--so much so that Gabord sulkily puffed out his lips, and flamed like bunting on a coast-guard's hut. [11]
- As seeds in the womb of earth break from the brooding darkness, Or as the soul soars free, heaven-seeking from the grave, So the hopeless soil of a dungeon blossoms to rapture, Blooms with roses of Love, more sweet than the wildling rose! [10]
- Then he stuck the torch in the wall, went out, shut and bolted the dungeon door, and left us two alone. [11]
- I waked to the opening of the dungeon door, to see Gabord entering with a torch and a tray that held my frugal breakfast. [11]
- I am glad that I conquered the baser part of me; for, almost before I had grown calm again, the bolts of the dungeon doors shot back, and presently Gabord stepped inside, followed by a muffled figure. [11]
- But Barbara's vivacious temperament shrank from their summons as from the tomb or the dungeon and, with all due reverence, she said so to the kindly nuns. [10]
- The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base. [10]
- If he is still alive, Macrinus, take him from his dungeon and bring him here. [10]
- If you had shot monsieur before seven, you would have taken the dungeon he left. [11]
- They would have put it off till next year, but I feared you would die in that awful dungeon, and I was sure that if your trial came on there would be a change, as there is to be for a time, at least. [11]
- In the dungeon, perhaps by torture, she should be forced to grasp his helping hand. [10]
- True, it was only in a dungeon, on a pair of stools, by the light of a torch, but how I relished it!--a bottle of good wine, a piece of broiled fish, the half of a fowl, and some tender vegetables. [11]
- At the door of the dungeon Gabord held the torch up to my face. [11]
- He had had nothing to do with it, for he and Jean Touzel were the best of friends, as was proved by the fact that while he lay in his dungeon, Jean wandered the shore sorrowing for his fate. [11]
- But that did not prove the case, and the mystery was deepened by the fact that Jean Touzel, whose head was too small for Elie's hat, could not get that same head through the dungeon window. [11]
- To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes. [5]
- I fought out my long probation in the continental wars, tasting sumptuously of hard knocks, privation, and adventure; but in my last battle I was taken captive, and during the seven years that have waxed and waned since then, a foreign dungeon hath harboured me. [5]
- Three nights ago Monsieur Doltaire was talking with me at a ball--ah, those feastings while you were lying in a dungeon, and I shutting up my love and your danger close in my heart, even from those who loved me best! [11]
- Yes, from that moment Joan's life in that dungeon was made almost unendurable. [5]
- Well, in his lordship's dungeon there they lie, who saith there shall they lie and rot till they confess. [5]
- Up there were light, freedom, and the inspiriting frost; down here in my dungeon, the blades of corn, which, dying, yet never died, told the story of a choking air, wherein the body and soul of a man droop and take long to die. [11]
- But the brightest light shone into his soul through the darkness of the dungeon, when he thought of art and his last work. [10]
- I was shoved into a dark and narrow cell in a dungeon, with some scant remnants for dinner, some moldy straw for a bed, and no end of rats for company. [5]
- The priest stopped in a small dungeon and held up his candle. [5]
- Yet you are in a dungeon, covered with wounds of my brother's making, both of you victims of others' villainy, and you are yet to bear worse things, for they are to try you for your life. [11]
- You know how I was thrown into a dungeon on Valentine's account, but no one can understand my feelings during that time. [10]
- As I thought, I kept drawing spears of the dungeon corn between my fingers softly (they had come to be like comrades to me), and presently there flashed upon me the very first memory of my life. [11]
- In another half hour of most bitter journeying I found myself in my dungeon. [11]
- As to Herdegen, he meanwhile had greeted Ann with great courtesy; nevertheless he had kept close to the dancing wench, and took upon himself to tie her bonds and lead her to the dungeon cell. [10]
- Yesterday their dungeon had seemed a foretaste of hell, they had each been on the verge of despair; to-day what different feelings animated them! [10]
- A hacking cough had never left me since my attempt at escape, and I was miserably thin, and so weak that I could hardly drag myself about my dungeon. [11]
- An hour's experience had made me as tired of the police court as of the dungeon. [5]
- I waked to find Gabord in the dungeon, setting out food upon a board supported by two stools. [11]
- It began to express itself about the time I was thrown into the citadel dungeon, and I knew from what Alixe had told me, and from the gossip of the soldiers, that there was a more open show of disagreement now. [11]
- The Vicomte officially explained that Mattingley had got out by the dungeon window. [11]
- He did not even hide what he knew about the "word"--that he believed he had found the right one in the dungeon, and that Art would remain his guiding star, as long as he lived. [10]
- At the upper end were the vacant seats of the Judges, and behind them we descended into a dungeon where the ashes and cinders had found two prisoners chained on that memorable November night, and tortured them to death. [5]
- There is a dungeon, the chanting of the procession of tonsured priests, the passing-bell. [4]
- Here in my dungeon I can hear the voice as I have not heard it since that day in the year 1730--that voice stilled so long ago. [11]
- Was ever giant's dungeon dug so deep, Was ever tyrant's fetter forged so strong, Was e'er such deadly poison in the draught The false wife mingles for the trusting fool, As he whose willing victim is himself, Digs, forges, mingles, for his captive soul? [6]
- And when the daylight came filtering reluctantly into the dungeon at last, it was the grayest, dreariest, saddest daylight! [5]
- At last, one day, I heard commotion at my dungeon door; it opened, and Gabord entered and closed it after him. [11]
- At last the day arrived on which, through the influence of the Marquesa Romero, the doors of his dungeon opened. [10]
- I attended Manchon constantly straight along, out of January and into February, and was often in the citadel with him--in the very fortress where Joan was imprisoned, though not in the dungeon where she was confined, and so did not see her, of course. [5]
- There is no communication anywhere with that narrow room, and if it exists--and of that there is no reasonable doubt--it has no light and no air, but is an absolute dungeon. [5]
- A small table, capable of accommodating three persons at dinner, stood against the forward bulkhead, and over it hung the dingiest whale oil lantern that ever peopled the obscurity of a dungeon with ghostly shapes. [5]
- Not dungeon now, but this room Governor bespeaks for gentlemen from France. [11]
- I had had but the one suit since I entered the dungeon, for my other suit, which was by no means smart, had been taken from me when I was first imprisoned the year before. [11]
- You have your best day because of our worst dungeon. [11]
- On the prisons being opened, Detricand had discovered in a vile dungeon the sometime curate of St. Michael's Church in Jersey. [11]
- Should we go away from the mimic stage any, better and stronger if the drama began in the dungeon and ended on the greensward, with innocent love and resplendent beauty in possession of the Rhine gold? [4]
- He was now awaiting his sentence in a dungeon, while Boges, the man who had led him into crime, was nowhere to be found, notwithstanding all the efforts of the police. [10]
- I waked again as though out of sleep, startled: I was in a dungeon that had no window! [11]
- Well, to have an interest, of some sort, and half a ray of light, when you are in a dungeon, is a great support to the body and preserver of the intellect. [5]
- The voice of Ambulinia shall be heard from that dark dungeon. [5]
- We knew nothing about what had been happening in the dungeon in the yester-afternoon. [5]
- Yes, and for a year Joan had known only the cool damps of a dungeon, and now she was dragging herself through this sultry summer heat, this airless and suffocating void. [5]
- His dungeon was a nice, cool, roomy place, and I cannot see why he should have been dissatisfied with it. [5]
- We sold about 100,000 copies of Richardson's F. D. & E. (Field, Dungeon and Escape) and are now printing 41,000, of "Beyond the Mississippi," and large orders ahead. [5]
- Presently Gabord said, "Stools for barber," and, wheeling, he left the dungeon. [11]
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