"Monsieur de Chanlay," said the governor, bowing, "I come to know if you have passed a good night, and are satisfied with the fare of the house and the conduct of the employés" -- thus M. de Launay, in his politeness, called the turnkeys and jailers. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)
He was quoted as saying, “schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
She was a hired nurse, the wife of one of the turnkeys, and her countenance expressed all those bad qualities which often characterise that class. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But I was doomed to live; and, in two months, found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is not fair on the staff who are called upon to act merely as turnkeys, processing people from overcrowded jail to overcrowded jail. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
Remember too late you forgot to evacuate the turnkeys. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
The sound of doors opening and shutting, the creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement of the courts, reached his ears. ❋ Unknown (2008)
FRISE; and the whole is under the constant inspection of vigilant and experienced turnkeys. ❋ Unknown (2007)
From this place, they passed through several strong gates, opened by other turnkeys from the inner side; and, having entered an open yard, ascended a flight of narrow steps, and came into a passage with a row of strong doors on the left hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They are not the turnkeys of the Town Jail, looking out of the gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perhaps you are lucky enough to pass, just as the gate is being opened; then, you see on the other side of the lodge, another gate, the image of its predecessor, and two or three more turnkeys, who look like multiplications of the first one, seated round a fire which just lights up the whitewashed apartment sufficiently to enable you to catch a hasty glimpse of these different objects. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We are not born to the treadmill, or to servitude and slavery, or to banishment; but the executioner has done no more for that criminal than nature may do tomorrow for the judge, and will certainly do, in her own good time, for judge and jury, counsel and witnesses, turnkeys, hangman, and all. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As he said these words, the lock was turned, and one of the prison turnkeys appearing at the door, announced that it was time for visitors to leave the jail. ❋ Unknown (2007)
‘No vay,’ said Mr. Weller, ‘unless’ — and a gleam of intelligence lighted up his countenance as he sank his voice to a whisper, and applied his mouth to the ear of his offspring — ‘unless it is getting him out in a turn – up bedstead, unbeknown to the turnkeys, Sammy, or dressin’ him up like ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mr. Weller, who stationed himself at the back of the chair, whispered that the sitting was merely another term for undergoing an inspection by the different turnkeys, in order that they might know prisoners from visitors. ❋ Unknown (2007)
After some discussion, it was discovered that one of the turnkeys had a bed to let, which Mr. Pickwick could have for that night. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The turnkeys in the prison lobby took off their hats as it passed through, and in another moment the heavy gate closed behind it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As we came out of the prison through the lodge, I found that the great importance of my guardian was appreciated by the turnkeys, no less than by those whom they held in charge. ❋ Unknown (2007)
[Antoine] [yelled] for more food until the turnkey walked up to his [cell] and told him to shut up. ❋ PMax (2008)
The [computer] [came] with a tunrkey [installation]. ❋ FyrFytr (2003)
[Complete] turnkey solutions for your [business]! ❋ Ekeyte (2007)
It's a turnkey [operation]. ❋ Indepman (2003)
" [TrunKey] [Now] Beoitch" ❋ Cassie Montgomery (2003)
We [offer] [turnkey] solutions to all your [business needs] ❋ The Fast Rita (2007)
Person 1: "I think [Cathy] is a real [Turnkey] Jerk..."
Person 2: "Yea, maybe, but that dude Ryan is even more of a Turnkey [Jerk-Face]" ❋ LokiTricks222 (2017)
