Jail Keeper

The writ was specially directed to the sheriff at Toronto, the sheriff at Brantford and the jail-keeper at Brantford. ❋ Various (N/A)

The late jail-keeper rode to a little opening in the woods, where Deck had halted, and received his orders. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

He was ordered by Lumpkin to put his hands behind him; this done, the jail-keeper proceeded to fasten them together in that position with a pair of iron handcuffs. ❋ Unknown (1856)

The jail-keeper who lived second door from me, said he knew nor heard nothing against me; and he was no friend of mine. ❋ Unknown (1855)

The treason of the jail-keeper explains this -- itself accounted for by ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

She lived at Milton, was white, and on August 11 was still in prison, but was asking the jail-keeper to provide a master to carry her ❋ Unknown (1693)

I was pleasantly surprised with Merkel's "thanks" to the former Soviet jail-keeper of millions, Mikhail Gorbachev, though, when she said: ❋ Unknown (2009)

His earliest memory, his bête noire, his Auntie, his jail-keeper, his sage friend — his mother, the others had said, but there’d been no proof of that, and she’d never answered the question when he’d asked her. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)