Sentence examples for warder in from inspiring English sources

13 Sorry too for Mr Mackay, the prison warder in Porridge.

Peter McParlin, national chair of the Prison Officers Association, expressed doubt as to whether the report was accurate but said that if it was, the warder in question would be spoken to about his or her conduct.

A Maze prison museum could show, as artefacts, the gun used by escaping prisoners to shoot a prison warder in the head - how it was stripped into small parts that could negotiate the sphincter.

In 1897, free again, he wrote a long letter to the Daily Chronicle bitterly attacking the treatment of a prison warder in Reading who was sacked for giving some biscuits to a child, telling of such tiny prisoners that the warders had been unable to find any clothes to fit one boy.

"The procession disappeared through the doorway of the sinister shed and shortly after came the muddled sound of a single volley - Carl Lody had paid!" So wrote John Fraser, a Yeoman Warder in 1914.

The whip was used in 18th-century Denmark and Holland; German felons were flogged out of town, and warders in the French penal colonies in the 1920s employed riding whips.

When I looked across to the gatehouse, it was full of warders in riot gear, many were gesticulating and shouting, telling me they were going to break my arms and legs.

When, to take just one example, Edward is languishing in his sewer of a jail, two warders in chain mail helmets pose on either side of him like Monty Python characters and get an inappropriate laugh.

Even those who have given themselves over to nazism to the extent that they are warders in Plötzenzee prison, supervising prisoners on death row, are still able to do good rather than evil: "They [the warders] had all agreed not to tell the kind, hardworking woman about the death of her husband.

Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.

Dialogue reveals the current whereabouts of the original Fletch and of Lenny Godber, the cellmate played by Richard Beckinsale, while Mr Meekie, a twitchily suspicious Scottish warder, is in name and manner a soundalike for Fulton Mackay as Officer Mackay.