hard labor

While studying at what would become the University of Manchester, he stole money from fellow classmates, was dismissed from the school and then sentenced to a month of hard labor in a local jail.

After the war, Faÿ was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor, but he escaped from prison in 1951 dressed in ecclesiastical costume, with the help of—here one reaches for the phrase “incredible but true”—Toklas.

But he was “cut to the bone with hard labor,” wrote Carl Van Doren, one of his biographers, and his “Autobiography” promoted the belief that any American, through diligent labor and discipline, could prosper and advance and keep reinventing himself.

A boy who looked like he was my age told me his uncle took a piece of fruit that did not belong to him and was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Aswan.

At age twenty-four, he was sentenced to life in prison with hard labor.