calaboose

Example Sentences

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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.

From Time Magazine Archive

English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Lem Lutts had disappeared so inexplicably from the mountains, Hatfield had, after a hasty search, hied himself out and visited every calaboose and county jail in the surrounding country.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

Oh, well," said Deering, "since I want to get on board the calaboose, perhaps her stopping in the dark is not a drawback.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold