house of detention
Example Sentences
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"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
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
There is nothing gloomy, nothing sinister in the aspect of this house of detention.
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue
Mother of 6 children, one of whom, Wilma, aged 18, was arrested with her mother, spent night in house of detention, and was released as minor.
From Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens
They had deprived themselves of their mobility and were confined in a house of detention, where they could do no mischief except to each other.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
