house of detention
Example Sentences
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The party's secretary general, mouthy Eugene Dennis, was unavoidably detained�by the bars of Manhattan's federal house of detention, where he is serving a year for contempt of Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Lieutenant Szipzr," said the court, "impaired the reputation of the country's first house of detention by being responsible for the bad spirit which prevailed in the prison for a certain period."
From Time Magazine Archive
After the attack, the Libyans turned Al Kabir into a kind of house of detention for foreign journalists, who were allowed out only for chaperoned tours.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was much annoyed, seeing that he was in the middle of a sensational account of the escape of a prisoner from Coldbath Fields house of detention; a gaol commonly known the "The Jug."
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
In one of Wilkie's pictures the brown bear is figured on its way with its owners to the parish beadle's "house of detention."
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam
