Sentence examples for English convict from inspiring English sources

Phantasmagoric energy propels this novel of Tasmanian wonders and horrors whose hero is based on an English convict, the author of a book on the local fish, who died trying to escape from a penal colony in 1831; the original Gould's illustrations appear.

I refer to the fact that for generations Irish agitators, Irish lawbreakers, Irish criminals, who have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in English convict prisons, have come over to America and have asked the people of the United States to give them money, to send them help in various forms to fight the Irish rebellion.

Corr plays Private McDonald, one of the soldiers led by Governor Phillip (Wenham) who set up a penal colony in Botany Bay along with a group of English convicts.

(English convicts were once transported to Australia: why not mockups of their monuments?) The competing tribes were given names based on aboriginal words for kangaroo and fresh water crocodile: Kucha and Ogakor.

Parrot's father is arrested in England — he was working for a radical printer involved in forging French Revolutionary banknotes — and the suddenly orphaned little boy (his mother had died years before) finds himself packed onto a boat full of English convicts, headed for Australia.

It's the story of a play put on by the first bunch of English convicts transported to Australia, and it's a passionate call to understand that the arts aren't a trivial luxury, or a namby-pamby snobbish indulgence for the elite or a sinister corrupter of moral fiber; they're an essential, and they need to be accessible to everyone.

The three, who had been working for al-Jazeera English, were convicted and spent more than 400 days in prison following an initial trial.

Later the two of them developed a film about an English ex-convict named Wilson Terence Stampp) who goes to California to investigate the death of his daughter, Jenny.

An English court convicted the victim's 49-year-old daughter, 16-year-old granddaughter, 19-year-old grandson and his 17-year-old girlfriend of conspiracy to murder for their involvement in a botched attack on the senior using bricks, the Guardian reports.

Then she was captured, sold to the English, tried and convicted.

She pointed to the sentence handed down last month to British soldier Ryan McGee, from Greater Manchester, an English Defence League supporter, convicted of making bombs filled with shrapnel.