0 an underground prison, especially in a castle
1 an underground prison
After he had been thrown into prison some one had put venomous serpents into his dungeon, but strange to say, after a time they had died, leaving him uninjured.
Each band of traitors as they arrived was seized and cast into a dungeon.
He led her through many winding passages, opening heavy iron gates, until they at length reached the deep dungeons which are found beneath this castle.
The same night eight masked men descended to the dungeon where the prisoners lay: they believed at that moment that the fatal hour had arrived for all.
While peering into the gloom, however, he stumbled and fell headlong into the dungeon below.
The two have descended into the dungeon and are in the process of digging the prisoner's grave.
Who are cast into dungeons, and treated and tried as traitors?
The recurrent images of dungeons, together with an escapist fondness for exotic foreign locations, tell their own significant story.