Sentence examples for gaol into from inspiring English sources

Wilde's own interface with audio technology is historically shrouded: did he or did he not, at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, recite part of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" into the recording horn of one of Thomas Edison's phonographs?

Prison reform became an important issue during the early 19th century, and the West Gate gaol was considered unsatisfactory, being condemned as dirty, cramped and insecure, resulting in the extension of the gaol into Pound Lane and the consequent dismantling of the adjacent city wall.

The gatehouse remained in use as the county gaol into the 19th century, being run, like other similar prisons, as a private business — the keeper of the castle gaol was paid £200 (equivalent to £13,100 in 2009 prices) a year by the county in 1807.

Smallpox broke out in Hertford gaol in 1729, and spread into the town.

One forms part of the County Offices, having been incorporated into the former County Gaol in the 19th century; another has been used by the Royal Welsh Yacht Club since the 19th century, and a third has been converted into a holiday home by the Landmark Trust.

As a result, she is taken off the picture, slung into gaol and replaced by a tame artist.

The Prison Act, 1877, reformed the English prison system, and York Castle gaol was passed into the control of central government the following year.

Though it was used briefly during World War II, it formally ceased operating as a prison in 1924; with parts of the gaol being incorporated into the RMIT University, and the rest becoming a museum.

The Queen was reminded of this in June when she visited Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast.

The Royal couple began their second day of engagements at Crumlin Road Gaol in north Belfast.

You don't have to read much of De Profundis to wonder how much an intervention by, say, Chris Grayling would have meant to Oscar Wilde, occupied with pitiless self-examination, if the former had stepped out of a Tardis into Reading Gaol, brandishing a copy of the 2015 Tory manifesto.