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  • Half an hour later he was sleeping heavily on the floor of a cell in the calaboza.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • Across the open square filed the dolorous line of friends to the prisoners in the calaboza, bearing the morning meal of the immured.

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • It was a tempting bribe; for at that moment Lafitte's brother lay in the _calaboza_ at New Orleans awaiting trial for piracy, and the Americans were preparing rapidly for a descent upon the Baratarian stronghold.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • Across the open square filed the dolorous line of friends of the prisoners in the _calaboza_, bearing the morning meal of the immured.

    Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

  • _ Half an hour later he was sleeping heavily on the floor of a cell in the calaboza.

    Old Creole Days 1879

  • "Americano, though I am, they would have me in the calaboza in half an hour if they knew we had appropriated that valise.

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • "_Americano_, though I am, they would have me in the _calaboza_ in half an hour if they knew we had appropriated that valise.

    Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

  • "They sends me over to the _calaboza_ with a detachment of coloured postal-telegraph boys carrying Enfield rifles, and I am locked up in

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

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