Sentence examples for jailer a from inspiring English sources

He's my jailer — a man I've always despised.

This was Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer, a collection of obituaries from the Daily Telegraph, the paper that first started printing warts and all descriptions of the dead.

"As concerns freedom," he adds, going on laboriously, "I really can't see the value in requesting of my jailer a thing he would never for the asking grant, and if granted that need never have been asked".

Admittedly, there's a lot of music to fill, but that's no excuse for the portentously choreographed game of chess played by Cavaradossi and his jailer, a wink at Bergman's "Seventh Seal" that is the lamest of Mr. Bondy's ideas.

Mary Whitehouse wouldn't have liked his answer: "We will address this issue with a 20-minute brothel scene involving a dozen whores, Mord the Jailer, a jackass, and a large honeycomb".

That title was fully justified when Grano's chum, Acton the jailer, a man of mercurial moods and violent contrasts, was brought to trial for the deaths of four prisoners.

"The Women's Prison" was a box office success about a prison during the first two decades of the revolution and the efforts of its female jailer, an ardent revolutionary, to turn prisoners into virtuous Muslims.

Will he be able to dispense with the authoritarianism that, to many, has made Dr Mahathir look more like a jailer than a guardian of his people?

"Are you dead yet?" grunts a jailer through a hatch, and then we see him: the man in the iron mask.

Everyone in Dickens is either a jailer or a prisoner, and some, like Dickens himself, are both: the author, his own turnkey.

During that last term Mr. Gyatso lost several teeth and his sense of taste when a jailer shoved a cattle prod down his throat.