Citations:prisoners


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done; to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners and cast them into his dungeon, for trespassing on his grounds.
 * Then did the prisoners consult between themselves whether it was best to take his counsel or no; and thus they began to discourse: —
 * Well, towards evening, the Giant goes down into the dungeon again, to see if his prisoners had taken his counsel; but when he came there he found them alive; and truly, alive was all; for now, what for want of bread and water, and by reason of the wounds they received when he beat them, they could do little but breathe.