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Meanings of gaols in inglês
Place in which people legally are physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms.
Usage of gaols in inglês
1
Old ships were chartered and filled with the contents of the gaols.
2
Ignorance arms men against each other; provides gaols and penitentiaries; police and constabulary.
3
The soldiers had arrested many travellers already; the gaols were full.
4
He had been long and repeatedly confined in different gaols of the kingdom.
5
All men do, I suppose, that haven't been born in gaols and workhouses.
6
He had appointed commissioners for the erection of new gaols in Quebec and Montreal.
7
The state of the gaols, in these times, is not easily to be conceived.
8
Correction as well as to county gaols, because of the expense of the latter.
9
In like manner are bridges, houses of correction, gaols, etc.
10
It is not Justice that fills the gaols, but Law.
11
Some have been pulled down entirely, and the site used for gaols or barracks.
12
Bands of men lay in York, Lancaster, and Warwick gaols.
13
I had heard of cells in the riverside gaols flooding at high tides, prisoners drowning.
14
They were lodged by batches in gaol, and in supplementary gaols-disusedcellars and so forth.
15
There are two gaols, the old and the new.
16
Strange to say, they succeed in smuggling them into gaols, as they are never searched thoroughly.
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Translations for gaols
português
espanhol
Gaols through the time
Gaols across language varieties
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