When he could capture a few peasants or some of the rebels that crowned all the heights around him, and day and night insulted or laughed at him, he killed them in some cruel way or the other; but towards the soldiers, ever since leaving Debra Tabor, he behaved better, and left off beating or Imprisoning them, as had been of late his wont.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc
By midnight its paling disk had become totally eclipsed, the clouds hung low over the city, a dense blanket Imprisoning heat which was oppressive even in the open and stifling in the ill-ventilated restaurants.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
He must have directed some fearful calumny against me, and they are Imprisoning him so as to be sure of his evidence.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt