I began and continued this labour about six months. I have already noticed the difficulty of scraping out the earth with my hands, as the noise of instruments would have been heard by the sentinels. I had scarcely mined beyond my dungeon wall before I discovered the foundation of the rampart was not more than a foot deep; a capital error certainly in so important a fortress. My labour became the lighter, as I could remove the foundation stones of my dungeon, and was not obliged to mine so deep.英文原著 · 《The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck-2》
He took it away and turned it loose in the guardroom, but it was tame to me alone, and sought a hiding place. It had fled to my prison door, and, at the hour of visitation, ran into my dungeon, testifying its joy by leaping between my legs. It is worthy of remark that it had been taken away blindfold, that is to say, wrapped in a handkerchief. The guard-room was a hundred paces from the dungeon.英文原著 · 《The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck-2》
"Madame," replied the old woman, drawing me aside into a window-recess, and lowering her voice, "do you see at the far end of yonder court an old dungeon of much narrower dimensions than the others? In that dungeon lies the good Comtesse de Bleink-Elmeink; she has languished there for five years."英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan》
There might no man abide his stroke, So fiercely on them he ran; Then they threw windows and doors on him, And so took that good yeom-an. There they bound him hand and foot, And in a deep dungeon him cast: "Now, Cloudeslie," said the high Just-ice, "Thou shalt be hanged in haste!"英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"Other people have lived in worse places. Think of the Count of Monte Cristo in the dungeons of the Chateau d'If. And think of the people in the Bastille!"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Not knowing in what way he had offended, but convinced that it was only by the grace of Andrews he had escaped a dungeon, Mr. Thorndike retreated to his arm-chair.英文原著 · 《A Wasted Day》
Okay, so you know in the second act closer when the seekers of Newtopia are in the Turbidians' dungeon - and they learn their ship has been destroyed? - No.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
The only reason I didn't smoke back then Was because I signed the abstinence pledge With my dungeons & dragons club.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
It sounds as if he's on the run from the police and for the all we know Lady Sybil is languishing in a dungeons somewhere in Dublin.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》