immurement

1 At the conclusion of this half century's immurement what would the world say to the Polish composer's music?

2 Lying on the sofa, I became slowly immured in the concrete reality of this edifice and of its facts.

3 There have been horrible instances of voluntary immurement in Christian Europe, and above all in the Christian East; but not quite—though very nearly—as bad as this.

4 Her face was very pale, as if from long immurement, and her eyes were no more merry.

5 Humiliations I have undergone, and death and immurement under circumstances of great severity.

6 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.

7 And I had smelled before that cold, dank, furnished draught of air that hurried by her to escape immurement in the furnished house.

8 "Two years after your immurement in the cell, the food having been for some time untouched, the wall was opened, and upon the pallet was found a decayed carcase in mouldering, monkish vestments."

9 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.

10 There is no third reason besides such slaughter or immurement for which men would seek individuals of our species.

11 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.

12 This meant immurement alive in cells, in a remote spot where no contact with others was possible, and where the prisoner would often be chained or riveted for years.

13 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.

14 The stern genius of the North grudges immurement, even to great piety, remembering that Christ himself remained but forty days in the desert and then returned to deliver the world.

15 “The practice of burying or concealing items in the structure of a house is called immurement,” said Joseph Heathcott, an architectural historian and urbanist who teaches at the New School in New York.

16 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.

17 How delicious is that refreshing breeze after his terrible immurement!

18 Persons conversant with the Vedas have said that death and immurement are both painful.

19 The upset released our characters from the horrors of prison immurement, only to plunge them in the more awful tyranny of the New Terror.

20 Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water's surface.

1 禁锢

embarment prison imprisonment enjail chain imprison mure embar

2 幽禁

cabin