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Sentences starting with prisoners

Prisoners ain't ever without rats. [5]
Prisoners are in our hands from the late Corinth army. [7]
Prisoners are prisoners, and though Laflamme is agreeable that makes it the more difficult. [11]

Sentences ending with prisoners

Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip's freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
There was a wild outbreak of anger below, and the mob swarmed in from all around, and there we were treed, and prisoners. [5]
In the hold were more than one hundred and fifty English prisoners. [9]
He and McDowell were in correspondence about prisoners. [7]
Suppose now among these men there should be some shut up against their will, and what if I were one of those prisoners? [10]
The position of the ladies was particularly unpleasant, for they felt that they had been caught in a trap, and were in fact prisoners. [10]
Not one of the Egyptians who knew the captain of the prisoners' guard had ventured to send an arrow at the escaping prisoners. [10]
But Dolokhov restarted the conversation which had dropped and began putting direct questions as to how many men there were in the battalion, how many battalions, and how many prisoners. [2]
Why don't you take them prisoners? [11]
Every respect was shown them, and they were treated as the king himself, but they were none the less his prisoners. [10]

Short sentences using prisoners

We must, therefore, remain prisoners. [11]
Tom scanned the prisoners curiously. [5]
Why take prisoners? [2]

Sentences containing prisoners two or more times

At Dorogobuzh while the soldiers of the convoy, after locking the prisoners in a stable, had gone off to pillage their own stores, several of the soldier prisoners tunneled under the wall and ran away, but were recaptured by the French and shot. [2]
After luncheon, the matter of exchange of prisoners was gone into, and one by one the names of the French prisoners in our hands--ladies and gentlemen apprehended at the chateau were ticked off, and I knew them all save two. [11]
It said that Iberville had brought prisoners whom he was willing to exchange for French prisoners in the governor's hands. [11]
For English prisoners had been scarce and precious for a hundred years; whereas it was a different matter with French prisoners. [5]
All were prisoners alike, prisoners of war. [9]

More example sentences with the word prisoners in them

There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
German prisoners are working there, too. [9]
The King conversed with these --he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered --and the tale of their woes wrung his heart. [5]
Do you remain with the little one; my mother is at work, and I must go with the prisoners of war to Harmontis. [10]
Mr. Allen, you will now proceed against the prisoners one at a time. [5]
Davout's troops, in whose charge were the prisoners, were crossing the Crimean bridge and some were already debouching into the Kaluga road. [2]
The arrangement adopted when they started, that the officer prisoners should be kept separate from the rest, had long since been abandoned. [2]
Some thirty prisoners were so taken, and during the night which followed the Boers carried away another thirty killed and wounded--the wounded to Krugersdorp hospital. [5]
The officer prisoners were separated from the soldiers and told to march in front. [2]
When the prisoners were passing Bent-Anat's tent, she was sitting within with Nefert, and talking, as had become habitual in the hours of dusk, of her father, of Mena, Rameri, and Pentaur. [10]
Two more prisoners were led up. [2]
Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. [5]
Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. [5]
A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French. [2]
He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner. [5]
It worked two ways: it made meat dear and prisoners cheap. [5]
So here she was, forecasting the veritable history of future prisoners of the Castle d'If, without knowing it. [5]
Among these prisoners was the grinning corporal who had captured McGilveray and then released him. [11]
Among them, however, was the commanding officer, who, foaming with rage and only slightly wounded, put himself at the head of the remainder of Bent-Anat's body-guard, ordered the escort of the prisoners also to follow him, and once more advanced into the oasis. [10]
He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either. [5]
While the marshal was passing, the prisoners had huddled together in a crowd, and Pierre saw Karataev whom he had not yet seen that morning. [2]
When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him. [2]
Among the prisoners was Garrett Enderby, who had escaped from his captors on the way from Enderby House to London, and had joined the Scottish army. [11]
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. [2]
Lastly, with earnest warmth, she besought him, before taking the prisoners away, to permit her to speak to the commanding general, Philippus, her father's guest, who, she was certain, was in the palace. [10]
I very much wanted one of the sorry old tables which the prisoners had spent so many years in ornamenting with their pocket-knives, but red tape was in the way. [5]
The jury was unable to agree for a long time; but the vexed question was finally decided by agreeing to consider them both prisoners, and then exchanging them. [5]
Tuesday I saw two--that's for joy--and fifty Jersey prisoners of the French comes back on Jersey that day. [11]
He had hired two venial wretches to set fire to the prison while the festival was proceeding, with a view to suffocating Orion in his cell; but the gang were detected and all the prisoners were released in time. [10]
The Second and Twenty-fourth Corps captured forts, guns, and prisoners from the enemy, but I cannot tell the numbers. [7]
These three groups traveling together--the cavalry stores, the convoy of prisoners, and Junot's baggage train--still constituted a separate and united whole, though each of the groups was rapidly melting away. [2]
There were already too many prisoners on board of the French privateer. [11]
The prisoners thronged together and were pushed off the road. [2]
He had been to the harbor to inquire as to the return of the vessel with the prisoners on board; to the Serapeum to inquire for her; to Dido, to give her the news. [10]
Five years previous to the battle of the Plains of Abraham, one comes across three genuine Scots in the streets of Quebec--all however prisoners of war, taken in the border raids--as such under close surveillance. [11]
They were determined to seize the boat, to take its freight prisoners, and have them duly punished. [10]
The king turned to Megabyzus and ordered him to have the prisoners executed the very next day, as an example. [10]
It seemed plain to me now, that with her training, those inherited prisoners were merely property--nothing more, nothing less. [5]
All this had to be dealt with, the prisoners and guns secured, the booty divided--not without some shouting and even a little fighting among themselves--and it was on this that the Cossacks all busied themselves. [2]
The prisoners had to be counted before being let out. [2]
I have nothing to add to what General Meade reports except that I have seen the prisoners myself and they look like there might be the number he states--1600. [7]
For a long time much consideration had been shown to the prisoners, but now they were alarmed by having the edict read to them anew. [10]
It was not till nearly evening that the officer commanding the escort collected his men and with shouts and quarrels forced his way in among the baggage trains, and the prisoners, hemmed in on all sides, emerged onto the Kaluga road. [2]
Not one of those dismounted cavalrymen who had marched in front of the prisoners was left; they had all disappeared. [2]
If we arrest them, we cannot long hold them as prisoners, and when liberated they will immediately reassemble and take their action; and precisely the same if we simply disperse them--they will immediately reassemble in some other place. [7]
I heard that their High Mightinesses had given Paul Jones the use of the Texel fort for his wounded and his prisoners, and thither I ran. [9]
Quickly battening down the prisoners, I had the sails spread, the windlass going, and the anchor apeak quickly, and we soon were moving down upon the schooner, which was now all confusion, commands ringing out on the quiet air. [11]
Therefore he ordered the prisoners to be again loaded with chains, the ex-chief fastened to a coughing old man, and all made to stand in rank and file before the fire till morning dawned. [10]
He's not among the prisoners nor among the killed! [2]
So prisoners mark the passing of the days by a bar of sun light. [9]
The gate of the palisade was now opened, and the captain of the guards allowed the prisoners to lie down on the glowing pavement within. [10]
The goal of the nocturnal walk, which was close at hand, was reached at the end of a few minutes, and the prisoners were delivered to the commander of the Diadochi. [10]
We next find the Major, on the 21st July, 1759, piloting the expedition sent to Deschambault to seize, as prisoners, the Quebec ladies who had taken refuge there during the bombardment--"Mesdames Duchesnay and Decharnay; Mlle. [11]
While some of the guards dragged the prisoners together, counted them, and tied them with ropes, their commander, with the others and his dogs, set off on the track of the fugitive. [10]
A week before the French had had boot leather and linen issued to them, which they had given out to the prisoners to make up into boots and shirts for them. [2]
Monsieur Coulon Villiers, the French commander, gave his bond that we should be delivered up when an officer and two cadets, who were prisoners with us, should be sent on. [11]
He strolled about the fortified enclosure, chatting to fellow prisoners, and waiting for the call which should summon them to the huts. [11]
During this halt the escort treated the prisoners even worse than they had done at the start. [2]
The evening after the decision he had attended a splendid banquet with Romero, Vargas, Mendoza, Tassis, and the next morning the prisoners, who had fallen into the hands of his men, were brought before him. [10]
Nearer and nearer the boat of prisoners approached the stone steps of the landing, and we were several hundred yards behind. [11]
As soon as the baggage train had passed, the commander of the band of prisoners wished to set off, but the "openers of the way," who preceded the archers, forbade him, because it was not seemly for convicts to mingle with soldiers. [10]
Cyrus decided, by the advice of the dethroned king of Lydia, (as we learnt afterwards, through some prisoners of war) on meeting us in our own land and defeating us by a stratagem. [10]
Then it appeared that there were fifteen of the latter among the liberated prisoners and, to Ephraim's special delight, Reuben, the husband of poor melancholy Milcah, who clung so closely to Miriam. [10]
It was here that the prisoners for the first time received horseflesh for their meat ration. [2]
He strode faster than the regiments with their load of prisoners, and presently he found himself abreast the little file of dragoons who were guarded by some of Blair's men. [9]
See the prisoners taking their places between the ranks, some smiling, as if to say all is not over yet; some with heads hung down, in sulky shame. [9]
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]
These at once surrounded them and took them prisoners, as the hunter traps the game that rushes down upon him when driven by the dogs and beaters. [10]
These prisoners are strong men, prominent men, and I believe they are all educated men. [5]
This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped. [2]
As prisoners they still felt his avenging hand. [10]
The prisoners of state who were being transported to the mines made slow progress. [10]
The prisoner was standing at the window, pressing her brow against the iron bars and listening to the lute played by her lover, which sounded, amid the turmoil of the other prisoners, like a bell above the roar of thunder and the storm. [10]
Petya recognized the sound of Russian voices and saw the dark figures of Russian prisoners round their campfires. [2]
I had a sort of realizing sense of what the Bastille prisoners must have felt when they used to come out and look upon Paris after years of captivity, and note how curiously the familiar and the strange were mixed together before them. [5]
On the opposite side stood Dolokhov's Cossack, counting the prisoners and marking off each hundred with a chalk line on the gate. [2]
What if we should be made prisoners there? [5]
Without presenting any serious obstacle, it merely indicated how far the prisoners might venture to go. [10]
When the indeterminate sentence has been spoken of with a view to legislation, the question has been raised whether it should be applied to prisoners on the first, second, or third conviction of a penal offense. [4]
It did not seem a regular cell for prisoners, for there was a second door. [11]
He did not see and did not hear how they shot the prisoners who lagged behind, though more than a hundred perished in that way. [2]
I was soon satisfied that the knowledge of who these three prisoners were had somehow changed the atmosphere; that our hosts' continued eagerness to go and spread the news was now only pretended and not real. [5]
The prisoners were safe for one while, anyway. [5]
Asking about the Russian prisoners with that detachment, Dolokhov said: "A horrid business dragging these corpses about with one! [2]
The most compassionate Russian commanders, those favorable to the French--and even the Frenchmen in the Russian service--could do nothing for the prisoners. [2]
All along the road groups of French prisoners captured that day (there were seven thousand of them) were crowding to warm themselves at campfires. [2]
At the bishop's request the Vekeel had despatched a troop of horse in pursuit of the nuns, with orders to bring the fugitives back to Memphis and take their escort prisoners. [10]
The prisoners were released and the lepers, whose quarters were in a side-valley beyond the mines--among them were those who at Joshua's bidding had been brought here--were allowed to follow the conquerors at a certain distance. [10]
But he speedily regained his composure, for a ray of light had fallen on her face, revealing that the person who stood before him was not Kasana, but her nurse, who had accompanied her to the prisoners and then to the camp. [10]
The prisoners had received their freedom while they were still at sea, and had been permitted to return home at once. [10]
Let the ship reach Chennu with the prisoners, but, by a secret order to the captain, pass the quarries in the night, and hasten on as fast as possible as far as Ethiopia. [10]
Cossacks, hussars, and ragged Russian prisoners, who had come running from both sides of the road, were shouting something loudly and incoherently. [2]
I put the question, in a quiet, friendly way, to several of the prisoners, what they were fighting for. [6]
It was his purpose to arm his sloop with Lieutenant Stevens and some English prisoners the night before she was to sail, and steal away with her down the river. [11]
These prisoners were property; nobody could deny that. [5]
We would now proceed by day as well as by night, for the shallop could not leave the river, and, besides, I did not care to trust my prisoners on shore. [11]
The exchange of prisoners, fully set forth in the letter of General Hitchcock. [7]
They were like prisoners, and each strove to explore the bounds of their captivity: each sought a lawful ground of communication. [9]
They ordered the prisoners to move aside and defer their march until the swifter baggage train, bearing Pharaoh's tents and travelling equipments, whose chariot wheels could already be heard, had passed them. [10]
Some of the prisoners take off their hats and smile at the young lady with the chiselled features and brown hair, who wears the red and white of the South as if she were born to them. [9]

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