| 单词 | prison wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprison wall prison wall n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > wall prison wall?1579 ?1579 Woorthie Enterprise I. Foxe in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 153 Amongst the Turkes was one..who..fell off from the toppe of the prison wall, and made such a lowing that the inhabitants..came and dawed him. 1646 T. Jordan Divine Raptures 12 Harke how the impatient seas beginne to thunder, As if they'd rent their prison walls in sunder. 1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) i. 101 Devotion breaks the Prison-Walls, And speeds my last Remove. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xvi. 248 No convict, slipping down from a prison wall, ever feared to see the gaoler more entirely than Mr. Harding did to see his son-in-law. 1898 O. Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol 16 The weeping prison-wall. 1997 J. Seabrook Deeper Pref. 15 The coded tappings on the prison walls made by the prisoners in Arthur Koestler's book Darkness at Noon. < as lemmas |
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