Though the bank isn't state-owned it isn't immure from state policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Craze For CMB] Reference
You seduce men to crime, and then arraign them at the bar of justice -- immure them in prison. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Albrecht as it prevails over Agnes, whose only fault was that she did not immure her beauty in a nunnery. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Have they not forced him to immure himself here in the hills, when he should by rights be reigning in Rome?. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Or that we immure ourselves in the aisles of Metropolitan Market, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's or Larry's Market. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Bon Vivant:] Reference
For nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
She has fantasies of murdering both of them, but everything seems to indicate that she decides rather to immure herself in a perverse pact with the house servant. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release] Reference
'As for the jealous and inhuman pride of the husband that could thus immure in the walls of his house the tender, loving, fragile bride I can find no adequate words. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Lady Selina, evidently discrediting so unlikely a story, and thinking it all but impossible that her brother should immure himself at Grey Abbey during the London season. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
Then he who searches well within the walls that close immure. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
My cruel parents immure me closely If you only knew what I suffer. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age] Reference
Since, therefore, he could not dispatch Memory, he sought to immure her. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lyveden] Reference
"I shall be coming and going, but shall not immure myself here any more.". From Wordnik.com. [The Home and the World] Reference
If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of Habeas. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
Gome, come, my blessed infant, and immure thee Within the temple of my sacred arms. From Wordnik.com. [Emblems, divine and moral] Reference
"What was Oliver's enmity towards you, that he should immure you here all these years?". From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
Schwyz, to lodge the captive Tell in the dungeon of Kussnacht, and there to immure him for life. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference
I have been with her to see some of those relations who so obligingly wished to immure me for life. From Wordnik.com. [The Victim of Fancy] Reference
Such a trick of fate, to take a man of important affairs, and immure him at the mercy of a maniac in a. From Wordnik.com. [King Coal : a Novel] Reference
It threatens to immure in chug what should be the merry whirring of a computer in its pride - all that makes a box a miracle. From Wordnik.com. [IOL Technology]
I came with my mother, when, after my father's death, she left that delightful retreat to immure herself in your melancholy town. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorrows of Young Werther] Reference
But as we were come in search of horrors, we scorned these merely lovely things, and hastened to immure ourselves in the dungeons below. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Journeys] Reference
Your lady, perhaps, from the horrid office she has undertaken, may be unable to go, but she is too reasonable to immure you in a nursery. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert] Reference
But self-defense required some vigorous action on their part, for Paul had threatened to send Alexander to Siberia, to immure Constantine in. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire of Russia] Reference
We no longer think of insanity as demoniacal possession, and we no longer immure people with diseased brains in the secluded apartments of lovely houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
What would become of mankind, if they were all to immure themselves in dungeons, or what is nearly the same thing to social life, among books and papers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Man's Guide] Reference
Now a wealthy and popular baronet could not thus immure himself for any length of time without exciting curiosity, and setting all manner of rumors afloat. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
For God's sake, Kirylo, my soul, the police may be here any moment, and when they get you they'll immure you somewhere for ages -- till your hair turns grey. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
But, on the other hand, she stood ready to sacrifice everything, in order to build some new wall of interest about him, that she might immure him from his past. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Side by side with this nunnery, where the precocious child passed one of the happiest epochs of her life, stood the prison which was to immure her in later years. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
No, no! her daughter must not espouse that Dario, that cousin, the last of the name, who in his turn would immure his wife in the black sepulchre of the Boccanera palace!. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1] Reference
One evening a devoted friend came to inform her that a body of men were to arrive next morning and take her children, even the baby from her breast, and immure them in a convent. From Wordnik.com. [The Huguenots in France] Reference
He at length determined to build a tower in which to immure him, having neither door nor window, and only a few small holes to let in air, and these so high as to be beyond reach. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
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