"Imprisonment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ejaculated. "I'll give the things up; pay the duties; go to prison, if you like. The punishment is fine or imprisonment." He intended to be sincere in his offer of self-humiliation, though ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant
... every one; I am not afraid of you; I know you can keep a quiet tongue. I must tell you what made me laugh most while he stormed: I remember not so long ago, when Posidon and Hera and Athene rebelled and made a plot for his capture and imprisonment, he was frightened out of his wits; well, there were only three of them, and if Thetis had not taken pity on him and called in the hundred-handed Briareus to the rescue, he would actually have been put in chains, with his thunder and his bolt beside him. When ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... clothing, or other property, from laborers, will be punished by fine and imprisonment. The sale of whisky or other intoxicating drinks to them, or to other persons, except under regulations established by the Provost-Marshal-General, will be followed ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... then, your imprisonment would in no degree stop this war, or bring about a renewal of peace ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty
... rest—that there is nothing fearful, nothing painful, where the love of the Father overcomes. And as all those cruelties were made null through the patience of the Martyrs, they bethought them of other things; among which was their imprisonment in a dark and most sorrowful place, where many were privily strangled. But destitute of man's aid, they were filled with power from the Lord, both in body and mind, and strengthened their brethren. Also, much joy was in our virgin mother, the [194] Church; for, by means of these, such ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two • Walter Horatio Pater
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