Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...comic songs in that irresistible manner so peculiarly his own. Mr. Austin, as the festive miller, presented a pleasant picture of rustic jollity, and was very successful in his two songs. Mr. Twombley played and dressed the part of the miller's wife excellently, and his song in the prison scene was received with great applause. Mr. Bowen as the Princess found rather small scope for his talents, but gave the "Oxygen" song, "Go Away," with good effect, and was loudly applauded. Messrs. Urquhart and Sheafe, as the gold-spinning maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts...
...fiction of any value is included, from Optic's "Frank on the Gunboat" to Lope de Vega's "Probeza no es Vileza." The popular character, fashionable life, provincial and peasant life, so far as possible, are represented; nor are university life, law life, sporting life, sea life, reforms, prison abuses, social changes, neglected. In fact, every work of fiction possessing any value seems to have come under the author's eye, and to have been assigned its proper place in this valuable compendium...
...walk upright, and being unsteady in both extremities, ye act in a riotous and unbecoming manner and excite the wrath of the custodians of the highways, who will quickly deliver ye to the judge, and the judge will deliver ye to the officer, and ye be cast into prison. Verily, I say unto you, ye shall by no means come out thence till ye have paid the uttermost farthing...
...WHAT brought you to prison, my colored friend?" said a Yankee to a negro. "Two constables, sah." "Yes, but I mean, had intemperance anything to do with it?" "Yes, sah, dey was bof drunk." - Vassar...
...exterior of a lyceum nearly resembles a convent. The weather-beaten walls, the barred and sombre windows, give to these structures a prison-like aspect. From four to five hundred scholars is the average contingent of a lyceum. TWO or three courts, or gravelled yards, planted with a few stunted trees, are the only space given to the sports of the scholars. Between four walls as high as those of a prison, in order to separate them as much as possible from the outside world, live these innocent prisoners. Their age varies from eight to eighteen years. Here they pass...