Examples of 'tolbooth' in a sentence

Meaning of "tolbooth"

Tolbooth historically refers to a tollbooth or a prison, commonly used in Scottish contexts
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  • Archaic form of toll booth.

How to use "tolbooth" in a sentence

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The tolbooth developed into a central building providing for all these functions.
The state of Edinburgh tolbooth is far otherwise.
The tolbooth may also have served as the guardhouse of the town guard.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tolbooth.
The Old Tolbooth was used as a jail where judicial torture was routinely carried out.
There is no record of him at the Tolbooth.
Their base is at the Tolbooth in the High Street.
At one time every Scottish town would have had a tolbooth.
The Tolbooth building.
There is a spooky kind of atmosphere in the Tolbooth Museum.
The Tolbooth in Aberdeen is a 17th century former jail which is now operated as a museum.
Porteous was imprisoned in the Tolbooth.
He was imprisoned in the Tolbooth at Canongate for 9 months.
Their heads were then displayed on Edinburgh Tolbooth.
And let them hang me in the tolbooth for my trouble?

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During medieval times, each burgh in Scotland had a tolbooth.
New Tolbooth exhibition puts unique spotlight on Aberdeen 's castle.
We have two men pressed into service out of the Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh.
The Tolbooth in Aberdeen, Scotland is a 17th-century former jail which is now operated as a museum.
Live at the Tolbooth.
Onthe morning of 4 November, some 120 peoplewalked under the neo-Gothic tympanum of Tolbooth.
Within living memory, Duns had a Tolbooth or town hall on its Market Square.
No . They would have taken me to the tolbooth.
Why should not the Tolbooth have its ' Last Speech, Confession, and Dying Words? '.
The Bean clan were captured alive and taken to Tolbooth Jail in Edinburgh.
I have seen the inside of a jail myself . The tolbooth.
October 1 - William Brodie is hanged at the Tolbooth in Edinburgh.
Guthrie was sent to Edinburgh and imprisoned in the city 's Tolbooth.
Falkirk also has the shortest street in Britain, Tolbooth Street.
Until that is settled, I will have you lodged in the tolbooth.
I would not wish it on a dog . The Tolbooth.
Confusingly, both were often called the New Tolbooth.
Nothing in Stirling either. There's no record of him at the Tolbooth.

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