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• Many thousand prisoners! (8)
• Do you know the prisoners? (8)
• Those are local prisoners. (8)
• Policemen, priests, prisoners. (8)
• Tell me, haf you seen many German prisoners? (8)
• Rinaldo Guidascarpi was one of the prisoners. (10)
• More than half the prisoners were burnt by their conquerors. (19)
• He surprised and made them all his prisoners, slaying {127} one. (19)
• Shirley listened eagerly to what the returned prisoners had to tell him. (19)
• There were many other instances when prisoners were ferociously executed. (19)
• A cry for quarter went up, and the English were made prisoners on the spot. (19)
• The English prisoners taken at Canso spent many weeks shut up in Louisburg. (19)
• He fell upon Oswego and destroyed it, taking 1400 prisoners and great booty. (19)
• All the same; just now you were pitying your folk at home, and prisoners and that. (8)
• Sixty prisoners, all who dared to oppose his schemes, were seized and locked up in the fort. (19)
• A skirmish took place, in which the French were beaten back and some of them taken prisoners. (19)
• I think of all the poor people there, and here, how lose those they love, and all the poor prisoners. (8)
• Then she produced her sketch-book, and I brought out mine, and we had a mutual interchange of prisoners. (6)
• As to the prisoners, on landing at Jamestown they were treated as pirates by the English settlers there. (19)
• The crews landed, and had nearly built a fort when Iberville fell upon them and made them all prisoners. (19)
• I wish to say that the tobacco lavished upon the espada was collected for the behoof of all the prisoners. (9)
• Her pride ran stinging through her veins, like a band of freed prisoners who head the rout to fire a city. (10)
• There were great rejoicings; and the bridegroom released five-and-twenty prisoners in honour of the glad event. (2)
• Prisoners of long date do not hope; they do not calculate: air, light, they say; to breathe freely and drop down! (10)
• There was nothing now but death or surrender, and 1100 Americans laid down their arms and became prisoners of war. (19)
• Surely you should allow those who have had a little more experience than yourself to know what is best for prisoners. (8)
• Certain it is she brought her wounded brother safe home to England, and prisoners in that war usually had short shrift. (10)
• From the windows of the inn, fronting a clear space, Vittoria beheld a guard of Austrians surrounding two or more prisoners. (10)
• They burst upon the sleeping, unsuspecting villagers in the middle of the night, killing many and taking numerous prisoners. (19)
• Season now followed season, and each saw the French but little better than prisoners in their three towns on the St. Lawrence. (19)
• About their doors swarmed the common prisoners, spilling out over the steps and on the grass, where some of them lounged smoking. (9)
• As for the French prisoners, no sooner were they released than they crossed the Channel and sought {144} audience of their King. (19)
• The Iroquois perceived that it would be hopeless now to storm the fort, and wisely decided to accept ransom for their prisoners. (19)
• After an heroic defence, Drucour was at last obliged to surrender, and all the garrison were sent to England as prisoners of war. (19)
• The Quebec Indians looked on sulkily while the Englishman took advantage of this handsome offer and named several of the prisoners. (19)
• They showed gratitude to an English colonist named Glen, who, on a previous occasion, had treated certain French prisoners with kindness. (19)
• On the way thither the French easily took Canso, at the entrance of the strait of that name, and sent its garrison prisoners to Louisburg. (19)
• Before the garrison could realise what had happened, fifteen of them lay weltering in their blood, and the rest were {236} taken prisoners. (19)
• Working from heat to heat the article finished in a glorious outburst with a passionate appeal to the country to starve all German prisoners. (8)
• The prisoners were already filing out of their quarters, at a rapid trot towards the benches where those great wash-boilers of coffee were set. (9)
• Having attended to the disposition of his prisoners and their property, Troyes, accompanied by Iberville, departed on 10th August for Montreal. (19)
• A prize crew of fifteen were put aboard the General Monk, and ordered back to Philadelphia, taking the prisoners and valuable stores found aboard. (18)
• Nevertheless their losses were considerable, including several hundred prisoners taken from a sheltered place whence they did not care to rise and run. (7)
• The Indians of the party were indignant at not being able to torture the prisoners unhindered, for the French-Canadian leaders were not cruel by nature. (19)
• The surprised people could make no defence, the town was burnt, fifty people slaughtered, almost without resistance, and a hundred more carried away prisoners. (19)
• Yet these English prisoners thought they saw how Louisburg might be taken, and their hopes were eagerly seized upon and shared by the Governor of Massachusetts. (19)
• In this unequal encounter the Italian lancers distinguished themselves very much, made some Austrian hussars prisoners, and killed a few more, amongst whom was an officer. (10)
• They could wage war, confiscate property, starve prisoners, offer rewards for treason, offer to concede every demand of the Colonies for their political welfare except independence. (18)

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