Calaboose

The calaboose is a miserable dark room of two apartments, one with a small loop-hole in the wall, the other a dungeon without light or ventilation. ❋ Edwin Bryant (N/A)

On this deck, too, was the prisoners 'cell, usually called the "calaboose," very rarely without an occupant, with an armed sentry on guard outside. ❋ Frederic George Trayes (N/A)

And Signet, guttersnipe, beach comber, and midnight assassin, was lodged in the "calaboose," built stoutly in a corner of the biggest and reddest of the Dutchman's godowns. ❋ Various (1915)

The horizontal ray struck through the grating of the "calaboose" at the corner of the godown I was skirting. ❋ Various (1915)

"He stayed down to the 'calaboose' to guard the prisoners," said ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

They entered the "calaboose," which now had all the looks and odours of ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

When the railroad tapped the village, and it was incorporated (1884) and assumed an official worldliness with its mayor and councilmen, it lost its isolation, summer visitors flocked in, and a "calaboose" was needed for the benefit of the sojourners! ❋ Samuel Peter Orth (1897)

He was the only inmate of the "calaboose"; therefore, he was in no doubt as to the identity of the person to whom so many different terms of opprobrium were being applied by certain loud-voiced citizens in the crowd. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

On Monday morning he had ventured forth from his office in the long-deserted "calaboose," resplendent in a brand-new nickel-plated star. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

The "calaboose" was situated at the far end of Main ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

THE slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

The yellowed pages in these and other records document the amounts some Independence residents owed to the light company in 1911 or whom Independence paid in 1881 for making repairs to the city's "calaboose," or jail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"calaboose," and went to work noiselessly on the small iron-grilled window of the settlement-room. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Riding along in my calaboose, still trying to get her belt a-loose ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once we're in the calaboose, health care is as free-flowing as, well ... as prison stripes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yesterday Hovind was whisked away to the calaboose where he will presumably cool his heels while awaiting sentencing on January 9. ❋ Unknown (2006)