bridewell

Paul pleaded his privilege as a Roman citizen, by which he was exempted from all trials and punishments of this nature (v. 25): As they bound him with thongs, or leathern bands, to the whipping post, as they used to bind the vilest of malefactors in bridewell from whom they would extort a confession, he made no outcry against the injustice of their proceedings against an innocent man, but very mildly let them understand the illegality of their proceedings against him as a citizen of Rome, which he had done once before at Philippi after he had been scourged (ch.xvi. 37), but here he makes use of it for prevention.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Here a gang of older boys and men were wont to congregate at such times as they had naught else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or two, they had considerable time to devote to congregating.

The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

The bridewell was a small low-studded chamber built up against the rear end of the Meat Market, and approached from the Square by a narrow passage-way.

The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

Shouldn't we bring back the bridewell and rely on eleemosynary assistance instead - remember they made the Empire and then the welfare state destroyed it from 1918 onwards

Another Letter Another Rejection Newmania 2008

Quoth they, “Didst thou not bid us bear him to the bridewell?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So they took him and bore him to the bridewell, where they laid him in irons and left him seated in solitude, unremembered by any.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Sat shin, shillipen? she knew the vice out of bridewell was a bad fast man by his walk on the spot.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr

Ulysses 2003

If a fellow gave them trouble being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the bridewell.

Ulysses 2003

Beggars fear him more than the justice, and as much as the whip-stock, whom he delivers over to his subordinate magistrates, the bridewell-man, and the beadle.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle