calaboose

Just let him be sent to the calaboose a few times, and thoroughly dressed down!

An army might lose enthusiasm and prestige if it spent a night or two in the calaboose.

Do you know how the man came to be burned up in the calaboose?'

Some of his stoutest fighters were in the local calaboose.

The tramp started a fire with the matches and burned down the calaboose, himself in it.

"Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places to be flogged.

The man set fire to the calaboose with those very matches, and burnt himself up.'

At the comer, by the old calaboose, there was the boat- swain waiting.

"Why don't you just arrest him now and cart him off to the calaboose?"

In 1693, the Calaboose Prison, for slaves, was built.

There's always some unfortunate who has to be bailed out of the calaboose in order to show you where he's buried a million dollars."

On the summit of its promontory hill, the calaboose stands all day with doors and window-shutters open to the trade.

"Powers out of the calaboose yet?"

Then there was the case of the drunken tramp in the calaboose to whom the boys kind-heartedly enough carried food and tobacco.

If he believes the Bible, he ought to have gone to the calaboose and cleaned that man up and taken care of him.

We'll all be marched to the calaboose, leavin' you with all the gold!"

The Residency stands by itself, Calaboose Hill screening it from the fringe of town along the further bay.

The calaboose victim was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp.

The word calaboose is a corruption of the Spanish word calabozo, which means dungeon.

The Summit Fork calaboose.

The Masked Rider left you in my calaboose just to throw me off until he had time to blow open my safe, eh?"

If our true purpose isn't kept secret to the last millisecond, we'll be in the calaboose so fast that Einstein's ghost will return to haunt us.

The calaboose stood in a sunflower patch,--an old hut with a barred window and a padlock on the door.

"Take him down the river to Spearville," I urged, "and try and break into the calaboose if you can.

Calaboose (1943)