What is "dungeons"

Usage examples of "dungeons".

I could tell thee tales of the dungeons there--knowest thou what they be like?

Thou art more like to be served in one of the dungeons, if so be thou be served at all.

Speak not of dungeons, and the country where there is neither eating nor drinking to me.

Negroes and whites in the same dungeons, a thing they do not ordinarily do.

A file of convicts and slaves in leg-irons was being led up from the dungeons under the northern wall.

Slow John stopped at the entrance to the dungeons, and Sergeant Manseer came running across the yard, jangling his keys.

Ours was but a small-scale, nineteenth-century repro of a castle, but the dearth of dungeons with manacled skeletons crumbling to dust was rather a sore point with me.

Donnerjack did not hear the banshee howl again in the months that followed his pursuit of the Piper, though odd noises continued intermittently in the below ground-level area erroneously referred to as the dungeons, and the ghosts still walked the halls of Donnerjack Castle.

Unitarian ministers condoned the acts of enraged Boston laborers who burned down a Catholic convent after witnesses said that Protestant girls had been kidnapped and kept in dungeons to be made into nuns.

House of Jair, and I could have you thrown into the dungeons without any explanation.

Rani found small comfort in the knowledge that the soldiers who had dragged her back to the dungeons had rounded up the Brotherhood as well.