After half an hour, I had come up with two small conclusions: First, my captor was a man of no mean ability, a remarkably intelligent, efficient, and daring individual who showed no signs of the gaol-bird in his manner and who was, therefore, among the more successful criminals. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1995)
I had a box seat, and as we drove through the avenues of trees, down the roads, with the gardens of the comfortable-looking bungalows a mass of green foliage and tropical blooms on either side of us, I felt like a gaol-bird escaped from his cage. ❋ P. T. Ross (N/A)
One day, however, I heard from a more experienced "gaol-bird" that permission to write a letter was sometimes granted if "on business." ❋ Unknown (1914)
In spite of his own anger, something far from being either assumed or inconsiderable, Lanyard was fain to pause, a few paces from the deck-house, and laugh quietly at a vast and incoherent booming which was resounding in the room he had just quitted -- Captain Osborne trying to do justice to the emotions inspired in his virtuous bosom by the cheek of this damned gaol-bird. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
Why, a fellow like that -- he's a regular gaol-bird. ❋ Gerhart Hauptmann (1904)
He straightens himself up, sitting on his straw like a gaol-bird, and we see his bearded silhouette take the vague outline of a Chinese, while his round eye rolls and turns in the shadows. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
Rebel and traitor and gaol-bird though he be, he never injured me in word, thought, or deed .... ' ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
"That 'poor man,' Betty," answered Patricia in a hard voice, "is a criminal, a felon, guilty of some dreadful, sordid thing, a gaol-bird reclaimed from the gallows and sent here to pollute the air we breathe." ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The stranger was a cadaverous-looking man, in a brand-new suit of clothes, evidently ready-made, but he still wore on his face the curious yellow tinge which is the special mark of the recently liberated gaol-bird. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)
A child scarce over thirteen -- an 'you're makin' a gaol-bird o 'her! ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
A. 's husband soon showed his true character; he was in reality a gaol-bird. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
'He is in gaol, an' that may make a gaol-bird of him, but he is no thief. ❋ Edward Dyson (1898)
He had studied the remotest details of his business; he was sternly professional in the conduct of his life, and, as became an old gaol-bird, there was no antic of the policeman wherewith he was not familiar. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The expression in that flabby woman's face, leading her on to give herself to that gaol-bird, not for a few hours, as she would, but for a lifetime, as she must. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The immediate reward of this bungled attack was thirty pounds, but two days later he was committed with Barney to the Durham Assizes, where he exchanged the obscurity of the perfect craftsman for the notoriety of the dangerous gaol-bird. ❋ Unknown (1896)
'Mrs Pansey told me some twenty-six years ago, when Miss Whichello brought her niece to this city, that the child's father was little better than a gaol-bird.' ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
