Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To imprison.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
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Examples
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Simon resides in Newgate so she visits him there with an enticing proposition.
Some Like It Wicked-Teresa Medeiros « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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He had heard, that when a man by the name of Winterbottom was, some years ago confined in Newgate, the manuscript had been sent to him, with liberty to print it for his own advantage, if he thought proper; but that man, it appeared, did not like to risk the publication, and therefore it was now first issued into the world.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_ 2007
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Houston, one of Skidmore's closest associates earlier served two and a half years in Newgate prison for publishing the first
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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I didn't mind the rest of the reading though, because he was trying to paint how miserable life in Newgate is, and he did an admirable job (or so I thought at the time) of it.
Response: This Boy Has Balls fantasyecho 2006
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Ridgeway, a radical publisher then serving a term in Newgate prison, who offered to publish the book without attaching Southey’s name to it.
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The 13-part drama, entitled Newgate, is said to feature a Sopranos style storyline set in the London of 1720 and filming is to start at Dickens World, Chatham, Kent, on 12 July.
The Sopranos - Dickens style Tracey Crouch 2008
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This man also at his owne cost builded the gate of London called Newgate in the yéere of our Lord 1422, which before was a most ouglie and lothsome prison.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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At about the age of thirty he went to one of those fine old English places of resort called Newgate, to see about something, and never returned again.
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At about the age of thirty he went to one of those fine old English places of resort called Newgate, to see about something, and never returned again.
Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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Cambridge, when he sent _Yellowplush_ out upon the world as a satirist on the doings of gentlemen generally; when he wrote his _Catherine_, to show the vileness of the taste for what he would have called Newgate literature; and _The Hoggarty Diamond_, to attack bubble companies; and
Thackeray Anthony Trollope 1848
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