As any ex-con emerging from durance vile eventually realizes, things haven't remained the same on the outside while he was doing time.
-- "Deri's non-comeback", Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2003
Escaping from durance vile, our hero discovers the village where his colleague parked the trusty Tiger Moth.
-- Frederick Forsyth, "Impatient with The English Patient", Spectator, March 29, 1997
One is like a prisoner, without a moment's respite from durance vile.
-- Leah Garrett, "Trains and Train Travel in Modern Yiddish Literature", Jewish Social Studies, January 1, 2001
