How To Use Immure In A Sentence
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They who immured me for petty years gave to me, all unwittingly, the largess of the centuries.
Chapter 1
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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.
Balzac
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Persons conversant with the Vedas have said that death and immurement are both painful.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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There is no third reason besides such slaughter or immurement for which men would seek individuals of our species.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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He did not immure himself in the solid structure of his social relations, but had made of them, so as to be able to set it up afresh upon new foundations wherever a woman might take his fancy, one of those collapsible tents which explorers carry about with them.
Swann's Way
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Or that we immure ourselves in the aisles of Metropolitan Market, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's or Larry's Market.
Seattle Bon Vivant:
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So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring.
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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.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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This lady died; but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia, and being immured within the walls of a haram, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
Chapter 14
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There were but two filo triangles, which made sharing among three a bit tricky, but the bay scallops immured within the flaky pastry were so big you could split one between two people and neither would feel too cheated.
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Twenty statues of Ti were here found immured in the serdab of his tomb, all broken save one – a spirited figure in limestone, standing about seven feet high, and now in the museum at
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Higden having had the imprudence, in his grief, to make known his recent misfortune, it had reached the ears of his landlord, who already was watchful and suspicious, from a year and half arrears of his rent; and steps were immediately preparing to seize whatever was upon the premises the next morning; which, by bringing upon him all his other creditors, would infallibly immure him in the lingering hopelessness of a prison.
Camilla
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By depriving them of all their wealth, by chains and immurement in dungeons, by disfiguring them (they may be made to expiate their guilt).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
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Or were these memories of other times and places still residual, asleep, immured in solitary in brain cells similarly to the way I was immured in a cell in San Quentin?
Chapter 6
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It is about a 14th-century anchoress who after three years of immurement waiting for divine revelation which did not come, declares, as many have done, ‘there is no God’.
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The Bear Boy struggles to climb out of what Thomas Mann called "the well of the past," the past that has immured him in an imaginary childhood.
An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
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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.
Clute Reviews THREE DAYS TO NEVER
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Being immured in prison has not left me with much to do.
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The butter was still immured in the back of the pantry, under the baleful guard of the newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and snatch a pot of jam from the shelf as I stood by with the broom, jabbing it into the sow's gnashing jaws as she made little darting charges at Ian's legs.
Drums of Autumn
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But by the end, Hodge moves one with his image of a man as trapped and immured as any Beckett hero.
Inadmissible Evidence - review
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Immured in a dark airless cell, the hostages waited six months for their release.
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Or were these memories of other times and places still residual, asleep, immured in solitary in brain cells similarly to the way I was immured in a cell in San Quentin?
Chapter 6
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The upper-class is too immured in money and cushioned by creature comforts and servants to know anything about uxoriousness.
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Do you think that that woman, who sits at Barchester in high places, disgracing herself and that puny ecclesiastical lord who is her husband — do you think that she would not immure me if she could?
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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The glass of Amontillado he drinks is suggested by Poe's own narrative of morbid immurement.
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As I passed over them something drew me to descend, not that I so desired, but that the collective magnetic forces of the human beings therein immured, deprived me not only of the power, but, in a great degree, of the disposition to resist.
Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It?
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Erika, meanwhile, immures herself in the mansion.
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he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
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The angry, obsessive, maddened father's reaction to this disaster is to immure her and her mother in their house, building more and more partition walls around them until finally they are imprisoned on a bed in a tiny space.
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The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron The speaker is immured in a dungeon whose walls plunge below the surface of Lake Geneva.
Ten of the best
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The criminal was immured in a dark prison for many years.
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It was legitimate to argue that if you had made up your mind not to challenge your immurement then you should make sure that the time was not wasted.
Chapter 13 - Stage Two
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The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles.
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To one possessed of wisdom, the acts of a former period (thus washed off) and those of this life also (which are accomplished without expectation of fruit), do not become productive of any disagreeable consequence (such as immurement in hell).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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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
Balzac
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Unfortunately, the coming of Shakuni, accompanying his sister to her life-long immurement in darkness in Hastinapura compelled by Bhishma, changed the entire completion of the situation.
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I shall immure myself in my quarters, and none of you, "he said, shaking his heavy fore - finger at us," shall come near me until" "he paused dramatically" 'that period is over and I know myself to be clean.
Nerilka's Story
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In contrast, White often found reforming local priests ‘less radical because they were far more deeply immured in the reality of their country.’
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It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along.
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Immured in a dark airless cell, the hostages waited six months for their release.
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However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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At its worst, this habit of optimism allows us to bury our heads in the sand, deny the ubiquity of pain in ourselves and others, and to immure ourselves in a state of deliberate heartlessness to ensure our emotional survival.
Buddha
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‘I longed sadly for some gaiety’, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ‘but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.’
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And shall I always be immured, like a captived thrush?" asked Edwin, indignantly.
The Children's Portion
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Sensible it was impossible ever to remove the fatal truth, or the impression to her father of her lost virtue, she formed the frantic resolution of setting off for the wild solitudes of Cumberland, and there immure herself alive for the remainder of her existence.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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We are the only ones here on a Wednesday morning and it adds to the atmosphere of almost being immured in the past.
Guadalupe in Zacatecas: masterpieces of colonial art
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Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel.
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It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not - otherwise you'd all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home.
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No more compulsory vows, no "frocked" younger sons "to make an elder," no girls immured from infancy, kept in the convent throughout their youth, led on, urged, and then driven into a corner and forced into the final engagement on becoming of age; no more aristocratic institutions, no
The Modern Regime, Volume 2
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He was immured in a dark room.
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The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour.
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On July 30, 1838, the masons arrived, and the entrance-gate was walled up with a kind of stone screen, leaving, however, a side-opening just large enough for an ass or cow to enter, so that this much-talked-of act of self-immurement was more an appearance than a reality.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
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We are, indeed, truly immured in our colonial past.
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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.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release
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Its purpose was to immure the emperor, protecting him from the gaze of the common people, who were forbidden from entering.
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It is easy to depict them as a complacent gerontocracy immured in its certainties and unwilling to rethink the future.
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There was ‘not the slightest sign of his becoming immured in his own work, as happens to so many creative artists‘.
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Though the bank isn't state-owned it isn't immure from state policy.
The Craze For CMB
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Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death.
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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.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers