Convicts

The convicts had their feet chained up, so that no one escapes.

The escaped convicts agreed to part ways.

The police searched all night for the escaped convicts.

The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in 'tween-decks of the bark Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

The partitions between the cells of the convicts, instead of being of thick oak, as is usual in convict-ships, were quite thin and frail.

A dozen convicts, who descended with their pistols in search of him, found him with a match-box in his hand seated beside an open powder-barrel, which was one of a hundred carried on board, and swearing that he would blow all hands up if he were in any way molested.

To clear the country of vagrants and convicts, France encouraged them to settle in Algeria.