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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