Appealing to the author's externally articulated "intention" can neither rescue a failed fiction from its flaws nor doom an otherwise rewarding work to the prison-house of the author's alleged ideological derelictions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In truth, as is the way with all children, the shades of the prison-house closed about me, and I remembered my mighty past no more. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It reads like a report from some monstrous hell, rather than from a civilized prison-house of the twentieth century. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And therefore we want to avoid any sort of determinism in the realm of scientific inquiry; we want it not to be the case that the sociologist is trapped in the "prison-house" of ideas and social context that surround him/her. ❋ Daniel Little (2009)
Uku Masing 1909-1985 spent his childhood in the Russian Empire, and after the age of thirty was again confined to the prison-house of the Soviet Union. ❋ Eric Dickens (2009)
But Reichardt is too subtle to insist on the point: the firs may be shades of the prison-house, or they may just be trees. ❋ Raban, Jonathan (2009)
Emerge, I pray you, for a while from your prison-house, and paint before your eyes the reward of your present toil, a reward which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The prison-house unmasked: In a letter to Her Most Gracious Majesty, shewing that arrest and imprisonment for debt are violtaions of Magna charta, and ... cruelty and inutility of the present system by Runnymede Secundus ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Well,” answered the elder Philipson, “if you, my friend, and son, come, as I judge from your arms and countenance as conquerors, and at liberty — ill, if you come to share my prison-house.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
With her maternal willingness to shelter and love and forgive, Adams said, “Mary concentrated in herself the whole rebellion of man against fate; the whole protest against divine law; … the whole unutterable fury of human nature beating itself against the walls of its prison-house.” ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)
Shelley and Keats were dead long before they reached the age at which Ibsen broke free from his prison-house of ice, while Byron, in the same year of his life, was closing his romantic career. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Hast thou not, despite the honour thou owest to thy parents, the faith that is due to thy religion, the truth that is due to thy king, been so carried away by the charms of this beautiful sorceress, that thou wouldst have helped her to escape from her prison-house, and lent her thine arm again to ascend the throne, which she had made a place of abomination? — ❋ Unknown (2008)
Say I am mistaken, my lords — say, for the honour of yourselves and the Scottish nobility, that my right trusty cousins of Lindesay and Ruthven, two barons of warlike fame and ancient line, have not sought the prison-house of their kind mistress for such a purpose as these words seem to imply. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nay, he became almost certain that, by some means unintelligible to him, Queen Mary held correspondence beyond the walls and waters which surrounded her prison-house, and that she nourished some secret hope of deliverance or escape. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Does not the heretic woman of this prison-house hold up thy example to others? — ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Traitor,” said Ursel, “and deceiver of old, bring no one hither! and strive not, by shadowy and ideal forms of beauty, to increase the delusion that gilds my prison-house for a moment, in order, doubtless, to destroy totally the spark of reason, and then exchange this earthly hell for a dungeon in the infernal regions themselves.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
The soul, he said, is imprisoned in its dungeon of flesh, and though retaining its natural and unalienable properties, can no more exert them than the captive enclosed within a prison-house can act as ❋ Unknown (2008)
prisoner1:i [lucked up] i got me a prison house playmate
prisoner2:i wish i could meet 1 how old is she
prisoner1:[19] [fresh meat] ❋ Kesha Westbrook (2007)
