Citations:prisoner


 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * Then proclamation was made, that they that had aught to say for their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear and give in their evidence.
 * When this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.


 * 2010, K. Martial Frindéthié, Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development, McFarland (ISBN 9780786457915), page 126:
 * The native informant is still psychologically prisoner of the oppressor though he lives in a great mansion and drives a big shining car; he is still psychologically a colonized subject, enslaved in his inferiority complex. What is his affliction?


 * 2015, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton, Black Trillium, Open Road Media (ISBN 9781497661172):
 * She had no chance, she sensed, for either accusation or reproach. There was that here which held her emotionally prisoner, no less than her body would be had chains wrapped about her wrists at the entrance to the tower.