Word: dungeon
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Olda was put into a flooded dungeon. For six weeks she was not allowed to change her clothes. Then the Nazis said she was a spy. They put sharp tongs on her right arm and tore the flesh. They refused her medical attention unless she gave up her "military secrets." From then on indecencies alternated with the dungeon. She cleaned her wounds with the drip from the ceiling...
Said the old Judge, summing up: "Cleopatra had her Mark Antony. . . . King Edward said: 'I abdicate my throne at long last that I may marry the woman I love.' . . . My helpless client found her Shonbrun. . . . Will you lead her to the dark doors of the dungeon or will you lead her to the green pastures and by the still waters...
...battle of the Lampoon was won on a hot spring morning. Charge upon charge ascended the flimsy fire escape, repulsed and thrown back, attacking and winning, and then, at last, dispersed to the solitary gloom of their cob-webbed tile dungeon...
...entered Germany on a forged neutral passport, was arrested at Frankfort on the Main, was saved by the sportsmanship of the consul of the country from which Alfred supposedly came. In 1926 the mature reporter of 98 was arrested in Portugal, condemned to death, thrown into a dungeon. He escaped with a jailer's help and got back to England...
Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...