stockade
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In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
“It was like you’d gone back into the stockade and you could shut the gate and get on with the work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
Sr. recalls he started writing when he was in the stockade during the army.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2022
Crossing the yard, he passed out through the gate in the stockade to face the goddess.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Those trenches helped the team identify post holes that in turn led to the pattern of holes and a stockade trench that matched stockades at other 18th-century military sites, Crawmer said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Overcrowding inside these stockades saw the spread of tuberculosis and blastomycosis, caused by a soil-borne fungus, along with iron-deficiency anemia.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022
This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.
From Fox News ● Oct. 28, 2021
Each night he walked atop the Wall with Lady Melisandre, and during the days he visited the stockades, picking captives out for the red woman to question.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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I lingered until Michaela stockaded me in upturned chairs and dragged back to the flat.
From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2018
Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When Lewis and Clarke came to the mouth of the Columbia River she was looking out over the Pacific from her stockaded walls and Resanof was sailing to search for locations for new colonies.
From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Clarence Leroy Andrews
The stockaded fort was taken, but the troops were repulsed from the main works.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Twenty-four machines, captured from the Saracens by St. Lewis in his first partial success on the Nile, afforded material for stockading his whole camp.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading, and the sufferings of all had been terrible.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
Maha Nemiow had moved directly upon Prome; advancing slowly, and constantly stockading himself.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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