What is "jailers"

Usage examples of "jailers".

It would require years to do again what I have done here, and the results would be instantly destroyed if our jailers knew we had communicated with each other.

He would have been discovered by the beating of his heart, if by any mischance the jailers had entered at that moment.

Instead of employing this diamond in attempting to bribe his jailers, who might only have taken it and then betrayed him to the governor, Dantes carefully preserved it, that in the event of his getting out of prison he might have wherewithal to live, for the sale of such a diamond would have quite sufficed to make his fortune.

I imagined your dead body buried at the foot of some gloomy tower, or cast to the bottom of a pit by hateful jailers, and I wept!

The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.

Ballard had become suddenly obstinate and would say nothingonly pleaded to be placed in another cell, or to have one of the jailers remain near him until daylight.

I noticed that the jailers always tried the door by shaking the upper part, never the lower bars, therefore I cut the lower bars, leaving them hanging in place by thin strips of metal.

Vearus, since I doubted his jailers would issue winter clothing to him or any of the other exiles.

I believe I can bribe his worthless jailers to turn their backs long enough to get Alain out.

Yet how long would authority and private property exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

All these busybodies, moral detectives, jailers of the human spirit, what will they say?

I should think that jailers must experience a larger degree of futility than even the most degraded prisoner.