What is "gaols"

Usage examples of "gaols".

Normally we send them elsewhere, within the city, which has better gaols than we.

The receiving-ship sent us eighteen Lord Mayor's men and twenty-odd from the Huntingdonshire and Rutland quotas, chaps taken off the parish and out of the gaols -never seen the sea in their life.

One landsman, an unemployed glover from Shepton Mallet, had been lost overboard, and a thief from the Winchester assizes had gone raving, staring, barking mad off Ushant: yet on the other hand, sea-sickness had vanished, and even the quota-men from the inland gaols could walk about the deck without much danger to themselves or others.

That is to say, I am blooming: poor Jack is a little under the weather, what with his new command, and a crew of left-handed hedgecreepers from half the gaols in the kingdom.

The receiving-ship sent us eighteen Lord Mayor’s men and twenty-odd from the Huntingdonshire and Rutland quotas, chaps taken off the parish and out of the gaols -never seen the sea in their life.

Filled with monks and priests and soldiers, the gaols crowded with innocents while Sha'ik's fanaticsonly the most cunning left alive, of coursespread murder and mayhem.

She was thinking of dungeons and gaols and wondering if Hauk did, indeed, know that someone was coming to help him.