hard labour

noun

1. criminal law (formerly) the penalty of compulsory physical labour imposed in addition to a sentence of imprisonment: abolished in England in 1948

Example Sentences

When his leader employs him in some hard labour, he explains what is his work, and the reasons which ought to engage him to obey.

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Who, pray, wanted to learn fresco painting by hard labour, and swallow the chalk-dust?

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The punishment could only be extended to six months hard labour in the House of Correction.

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The magistrate sentenced the prisoner, under the Vagrant Act, to three months hard labour.

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And there is the very natural disinclination to the drudgery involved in all hard labour.

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