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"State prison" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a three years term in the State prison," answered his companion. "It always makes me feel sad when I think of the fate of that ...

— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... to me about her innocence!" he said, and his voice was ominous. "I suppose next you will argue that, because she's been clever enough to keep within the law, since she's got out of State Prison, she's not a criminal. But let me tell you—crime is crime, whether the law touches it in the particular case, ...

— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana

... the popular pictures I have mentioned, having a very reasonable preference for the illustrated papers of his own country; otherwise—there is no telling—he might have observed the resemblance and escaped the State prison, whither he assuredly never would have gone had he married Madeline Anderson—as he fully intended to do when Miss Forde came over. He was worth at that time a great deal of money, besides being more personable than any one would have believed who knew him as ...

— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... is a curious spectacle to see the pleasureable anticipations of the prisoners, in a feast of good things, all of which would not amount to so plentiful a repast, as that which the criminals in our State Prison, near Boston, enjoy almost every day, the plenty of good porter excepted. Application has been made to Capt. Hutchinson, for an additional allowance of beer and porter, which request he has granted, with his usual goodness. Every brain is at work to know how to spend what we have been ...

— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse

... Klux Klan sprung right up out of de earth, but de Yankees put a stop ter dat by puttin' so many of dem in jail. Dey do say dat dat's what de State Prison wus ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

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