Gaol

(n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

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• You'd have been screwed in gaol, Bute, if I had not kept your money. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mrs. Bute's intentions with regard to Miss Betsy Horrocks were not carried into effect, and she paid no visit to Southampton Gaol. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Mr. Crawley, you'll make out her committal--and, Beddoes, you'll drive her over in the spring cart, in the morning, to Southampton Gaol. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You go about so gloomily, and look at the heath as if it were somebody's gaol instead of a nice wild place to walk in. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• That chap will be in gaol in two years, Mr. Higgs said to Mr. Poe. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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