Examples from literature

• After he had been thrown into prison some one had put venomous serpents into his dungeon, but strange to say, after a time they had died, leaving him uninjured. 
• Each band of traitors as they arrived was seized and cast into a dungeon. 
• He led her through many winding passages, opening heavy iron gates, until they at length reached the deep dungeons which are found beneath this castle. 
• The same night eight masked men descended to the dungeon where the prisoners lay: they believed at that moment that the fatal hour had arrived for all. 
• While peering into the gloom, however, he stumbled and fell headlong into the dungeon below.