In French this sort of prison is called an oubliette. From Wordnik.com. [City of Glass] Reference
Strenuously jamming their alleged principles into an oubliette is an exercise that apparently causes blindness, as well. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
"The oubliette is a dirty place, and fuligin doesn't show bloodstains.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
First off, full marks for you for sneaking in the word "oubliette" into the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [A certain quality of failing light] Reference
From the Stumptown Trade Review's article and podcast, I learned about Kenan Rubenstein's single-sheet "oubliette" comics. From Wordnik.com. [Single-Sheet Comics] Reference
The "Sinking Fund Commission," is another "oubliette" into which money raised from the State sinks mysteriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference
Greybeard, have you got live streaming from the oubliette?. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Casualties.] Reference
In our oubliette, the overwhelming impression was of solidity and mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
I see Agilus's cell, the oubliette under the Matachin Tower, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
"It's called an oubliette," she said as two guards brought in furniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Dr. Zeus found a nicely humane oubliette and dropped me out of sight or sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
"It's called an oubliette," she said as two guards brought in furniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
He started with the chambers closest to the oubliette and worked slowly outward. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
Its vision of justice between nations is the judicial oubliette of Guantanamo Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Let’s hear it for Belgium] Reference
Sorry Mayhem, the only thing streaming from the oubliette is, um, not at all nice. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Casualties.] Reference
If you picks teh rawng wun, you eiger end up inna oubliette oar teh bog ov eturnal stench. From Wordnik.com. [One of us answers with the truth - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I think Greybeard had to go back a thread to deal with a squabble over rats in the oubliette. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » The Spill. (In Canberra, not the Gulf).] Reference
The body is a colony of cells (I used to think of our oubliette when Master Palaemon said that). From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
No inmate of the oubliette could have been more lonely, and yet life was accessible, and even near. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Current Music: crown me king- romeo & oubliette (sultan of mars dub)(9 gunslingers | crown me king). From Wordnik.com. [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference
I staggered into the WC, and hung my head in the oubliette for an eternity, but nothing was coming up. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
But there is no great and final oubliette: or at least, it is never final, until one has flung ONESELF down. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Or perhaps madmen, as we of the torturers had confined pain-crazed clients on the third level of the oubliette. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
The lights of the oubliette are of that ancient kind that is said to burn forever, though some have now gone out. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
The oubliette was not convenient for her anatomy, or she would have used that, as it was enchanted never to fill up. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
At last he knelt over the foul oubliette, and tenderly covered Rilliger's ruined face with a fold of the man's cloak. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
Low Tech Magazine | The digital oubliette O formato digital é a melhor forma de arquivar a nossa informação, certo?. From Wordnik.com. [Leituras] Reference
Holding his torch over the crevice, he discovered Blot three feet below, hanging over the grisly oubliette, held fast by one leg. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
They all knew I was phony and were simply arguing over who had the privilege of taking me apart and putting me down the oubliette. From Wordnik.com. [Double Star]
Or I'd sit down on the oubliette and find one of Pa's journals from back home, well-thumbed and open to an article on mental telepathy. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
(First, I believe, when I had touched the woman in our oubliette who had constructed the furnishings of her room from stolen children.). From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
We put him on trial, convict him, and either sentence him to death or throw him in an oubliette. From Wordnik.com. [Drudge Retort] Reference
It was the shaft of an oubliette which must have opened somewhere in the upper part of the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Rome] Reference
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