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Definition of Hulks
1. hulk [v] - See also: hulk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hulks
Literary usage of Hulks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suggestions for the Repression of Crime: Contained in Charges Delivered to by Matthew Davenport Hill (1857)
"What are the vessels which convey the convicts to their destination but hulks in
motion ? What are hulks but transport vessels at rest ? ..."
2. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1876)
"An attempt was made to substitute the hulks and penitentiaries for transportation.
The penitentiaries as then understood, and as afterwards modified by the ..."
3. Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815: A Record of Their Lives, Their by Francis Abell (1914)
"He complains bitterly that officers in the hulks were placed on a level with
common prisoners, and even with negroes, and says that even the Brunswick, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1797)
"... of the hulks then adopted.—Salutary Laws alfo made for the ... confined in
the hulks for nineteen years.—The expence and produce of their labour. ..."
5. Political Dictionary: Forming a Work of Universal Reference, Both by Charles Knight (1846)
"(Statements and Observations concerning the hulks, by George Holford, Esq., MP)
From the evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Commons appointed ..."
6. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"*SDD hulks (Woolwich). Returns of the name, age, date of reception, and death of
each prisoner who has died on board the bulks at Woolwich from 1 Jan. ..."
7. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... Tarifa—French prisoners cut the cables of the prison-hulks. and drift during
a tempest—General Lacy's expedition to the Ronda—His bad conduct—Returns to ..."
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