He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Persons conversant with the Vedas have said that death and immurement are both painful. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Humiliations I have undergone, and death and immurement under circumstances of great severity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
There is no third reason besides such slaughter or immurement for which men would seek individuals of our species. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
By depriving them of all their wealth, by chains and immurement in dungeons, by disfiguring them (they may be made to expiate their guilt). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
On learning the truth, she consents to receive the visit of Lara, an admirer of hers, whom she loves; and, when the Bluebeard, Valdini, surprises his victim and proceeds to the immurement, his first wife slips in most conveniently and whisks him off, leaving Valentine free to marry. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Three Days to Never is, pretty clearly, a thematic consort of Declare, its immediate predecessor in Powers' canon, but although the new tale shares that novel's immurement in the mortal coils of 20th-century history, it reads as a counterfactual to Powers' previous unsparing insistence that the past 100 years or so of human life on this planet have been lived in the heart of darkness of theological abomination. From Wordnik.com. [Clute Reviews THREE DAYS TO NEVER] Reference
Her face was very pale, as if from long immurement, and her eyes were no more merry. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
At the conclusion of this half century's immurement what would the world say to the Polish composer's music?. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
Thenceforward Ernesta had but one thought, that of saving her daughter from that awful life of immurement and entombment. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1] Reference
Carcassonne was impregnable; it is impossible to imagine without having seen them such refinements of immurement, such ingenuities of resistance. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Tour of France] Reference
He was in that frame of mind which, during the middle ages, resulted in the immurement of such disturbing daughters in the topmost turrets of their fathers 'castles. From Wordnik.com. [The Ffolliots of Redmarley] Reference
And then he thought of the three years she had suffered immurement, uncomplaining, and a flush of shame warmed him, for he carried fair play as an item in his creed. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
James, who had become wearied of his immurement, and thought the assassins were gone, calls now on one of the ladies to aid him in coming out of his place of concealment. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
For this immurement, however, there exists fair compensation in the shape of a very pretty garden, or rather a series of garden spaces, which surround the dwelling on three sides. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
Our peregrinations made it very clear that Carcassonne was impregnable; it is impossible to imagine, without having seen them, such refinements of immurement, such ingenuities of resistance. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2] Reference
High over Berchtesgaden and in Berlin his books did nothing for his soul but drag it through the muck of his mind so that in the end he became as much a victim of his own immurement as Fortunato did of Montresor in. From Wordnik.com. [3quarksdaily] Reference
The effect of this immurement was soon visible; the Manchu rule, which was emphatically a rule of the sword, was rapidly so weakened that the emperors became no more than rois faineants at the mercy of their ministers. From Wordnik.com. [The Fight for the Republic in China] Reference
However, this is a mere detail; and indeed, if toads-in-a-hole do really exist at all, we must in all probability ultimately admit that they breathe to some extent, though perhaps very slightly, during their long immurement. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
On learning the truth, she consents to receive the visit of Lara, an admirer of hers, whom she loves; and, when the Bluebeard, Valdini, surprises his victim and proceeds to the immurement, his first wife slips in most conveniently and whisks him off, leaving Valentine free to marry Lara. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
We repeat, to form an adequate idea of the suffering endured by the mother of Ben-Hur, the reader must think of her spirit and its sensibilities as much as, if not more than, of the conditions of the immurement; the question being, not what the conditions were, but how she was affected by them. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
For when she had retired, after staying a few minutes in the room, her good aunt, in the fullness of her confidence in me, not only related all the particulars of the Signora Flora's immurement in the Carmelite Convent, but also explained to me her motives for so long concealing the young lady's return home, as I have heretofore narrated to your highness. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference
We had indeed exchanged our large tent for a small one in which we could sit upright but could not stand, and so narrow that the four of us, lying side by side, had to make mutual agreement to turn over; our comfortable wood-stove for the little kerosene stove; yet when the clouds cleared we had a noble, wide prospect and there was not the sense of damp immurement that the floor of the glacier gave. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference
The chains of earth's immurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
There are three periods of immurement. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
Misery arises from death and immurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The chains of earth’s immurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
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