I "immured" myself far away from the scene of turmoil and strife, and was happy so long as I kept my eyes on my books and manuscripts. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
He ordered him to be confined, and immured him in a dungeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Arrayed in convict uniform, here the brave youths were immured. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
From henceforth, until immured in the Tower, all in the career of Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Here "His Holiness" lives, a self-immured prisoner, on unlimited patrol. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Men will be immured alive within narrow walls and allowed to perish by inches. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Joseph was immured in jail, but from it he ascended to a seat next the throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
What can an immured anchorite know of the vast mysteries of the wind-borne spirits?. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
If I had been immured there forever and always, it would be her fault just the same. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
Send us back into our city, and keep us there immured until we have perished of hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
Though immured within the walls of a prison, he became now in the very zenith of his fame. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
For a whole year Tasso endured all the horrors of the sordid cell in which he was immured. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Here he was immured in the strong cell which had long borne the title of the 'murderer's room.'. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
In 312 the persecution being abated, he returned to his monastery, and immured himself in his cell. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
After they had been here immured the sudden change in their situation was like a sentence of death. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
They have become so immured in their busy lives, that it is difficult to grow accustomed to any other. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
To begin with, they are immured in rooms from which, as far as possible, all light and air are excluded. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
The coronation ends with John's triumph, while the hapless Fidès is carried off to be immured in a dungeon. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference
"So far that, if you were immured here, no cry, however loud, could penetrate the distance," replies Sir Adrian. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference
Slavery, the Southron who should gravely propose disunion, would at once be immured in a receptacle for lunatics. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Here, immured in darkness, they listened to the howls, yelpings, and lugubrious songs that resounded from without. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person: thou wert immured, captivated, bound. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
The sinful wight, though himself in the same predicament, beholding the bird, picked her up and immured her in a cage. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
But if Ashe was immured somewhere in that rock pile over their heads, then the risk of trusting Loketh would be worth it. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Has he been -- it is a little difficult to choose the right word, but let us say immured -- has he been immured in some cell?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891] Reference
Then, letting the book slip from her fingers, she gazed into space, as listless as a lady immured in a seraglio on the Bosphorous. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
He had even immured himself for some time in a Carthusian retreat, but found its inmates in no respect superior to the Franciscans. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
He was conveyed to Castle Grant, and from thence to London, to the same dreary fortress in which Lord Kilmarnock was likewise immured. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
We were conducted to the spot where stood, with bars only three inches apart, the iron cage in which so many celebrities were immured. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
O thou of handsome face and sweet smiles, women formerly were not immured within houses and dependent on husbands and other relatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Northumberland to be shut up in Widdrington Tower, where there must be two or three sets of victims already immured under a very fine villain. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
They are not immured; they eat in company with the males; and, in most points, hold the same position toward their husbands and children as European women. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
She had not heard a word concerning him since she had been immured within the sombre walls of that dismal convent, and now she had tidings of him in his own handwriting!. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
It was while returning from an expedition to the furthest of these nunneries, in which she frequently immured herself for weeks at a time, that she found Jacob upon the road. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Many political prisoners had been immured in the Tower and other state prisons on trivial or trumped up charges, preferred by jealous courtiers on personal or religious grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
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