gaol

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Examples

• The freelancer has since served a gaol term, and so too has the paper's royal correspondent.

• Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?

• Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.

• Her men can lie in Grenoble gaol to be dealt with by yourself for supporting her in an attempt to resist the Queen's authority.

• The bail, a reputable tradesman, with astonishment declared that he never was in a gaol in his life.

• Thus we read that, in 1740, she was committed to Guildford Gaol for receiving stolen goods!