jailor
Usage examples:
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Their liberation, in fact, was near; for their envious jailor finding probably no excuse for longer detaining them, suffered them to depart, but sent the gendarme to guard them as far as Berlenburg.
John Yeardley in "Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel". -
Hungry and sick upon the floor of her prison she was sitting, when her name was called, for bead after bead of her pearl necklace had gone to her jailor only for a little black bread and a cup of milk twice a day; and this morning for twenty- four hours she had been without food or milk."
Amelia E. Barr in "The Maid of Maiden Lane". -
As they walked along the path from the fort to Jamestown's one street he asked: " Tell me, my little jailor how came The Powhatan to set me free?
Virginia Watson in "The Princess Pocahontas". -
And listen now, her jailor was guillotined before she left, and she declares it was the necklace- very unfortunate beads they were, and Madame Jacobus said when she heard of their fate, 'let them go!
Amelia E. Barr in "The Maid of Maiden Lane".