Meaning of prisonful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a prison.

Examples

“When we shall have⟳, as suggested by “A Briton,” thus once for all degraded ourselves to the level of savages, we shall undoubtedly have⟳ on our hands a furious and open⟳ Irish insurrection, with an American war, and then possibly certain savage deeds in India, perpetrated while suppressing a real insurrection, might rise⟳ up against us, and teach⟳ us that even that affair might have⟳ been managed by fair fighting alone without suffocating prisonsful of sepoys, and murdering peasantry on the line of march⟳.”

“They remind⟳ us that we carry⟳ the load⟳ of national debt like⟳ a feather-weight; keep⟳ armies of paupers in plenty and prisonfuls of prisoners in luxury, and can count⟳ upon an indefinite elasticity of revenue.”

“There have⟳ been prisonsful of similar dramas for Mrs. Peterson during her tours.”

“The officers, hoping to make⟳ their troops obey⟳ orders, massacred whole prisonfuls of captives.”

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