house of detention
Example Sentences
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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
"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
The wall suggests an asylum, a house of detention or some like place set apart for the unfortunate members of society.
From The Master of Silence A Romance by Bacheller, Irving
They strongly urged the chief, therefore, to bind him within the house of detention, the prison house, where the chief's enemies were wont to be imprisoned.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren
There is nothing gloomy, nothing sinister in the aspect of this house of detention.
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Sue, Eugène
