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Definition of Dungeons
1. dungeon [v] - See also: dungeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dungeons
Literary usage of Dungeons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Underground: Gambling and Its Horrors. by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"A GREAT many people have at some time in their lives been in dungeons ; some of
their own accord, and others much against their wills. ..."
2. Divide and Rule: State-Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya by Binaifer Nowrojee, Bronwen Manby, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Africa Watch Committee (1993)
"These dungeons had a few feet of brick above the surface and the walls were brick.
... CONDITIONS IN Dungeons Disease was rampant in the dungeons and camps. ..."
3. Letters on Paraguay: Comprising an Account of a Four Years' Residence in edited by William Parish Robertson (1839)
"I proceed now to describe, as distinguished from that, the " state dungeons."
These are narrow cells, constructed under ground in the different barracks. ..."
4. A History of Italian Unity: Being a Political History of Italy from 1814 to 1871 by Bolton King (1912)
"The Roman Advertiser (the organ of the English community) says that crowds of
sightseers saw " the dark dungeons, the arched caverns full of bones, ..."
5. A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the by John Carr (1807)
"CHAPTER XV. , Dungeons IK THE STADT-HOUSE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS HALL OF
JUSTICE THE TORTURE CRIMINAL TRIALS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ANECDOTE OF A MALEFACTOR ..."
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