"Immure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... You, who are so gay, so full of life and health and exuberant spirits, immure yourself in ...
— Which? - or, Between Two Women • Ernest Daudet
... increase the terror of the others. But for God's sake, no public trials—no public penalties! Wenzel should be secretly arrested and disposed of. Let him disappear—he and the other ringleaders who were bold enough to come up here. Let us immure them in some strong, thick-walled prison, and while the other rioters are vainly tormenting their heavy skulls by trying to guess what has become of their leaders, we shall render the latter so pliable and tame by all kinds of tortures and threats ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... (incapacitate) 158. confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; cage; incage[obs3], encage[obs3]; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... the same shall be. That soul which can immortal glory give To her own virtues must for ever live. Can you believe that man's all-knowing mind Can to a mortal body be confined? Though a foul foolish prison her immure On earth, she (when escaped) is wise and pure. Man's body when dissolved is but the same 879 With beasts, and must return from whence it came; But whence into our bodies reason flows, None sees it when it comes, or where it goes. Nothing resembles death so much as sleep, Yet ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham
... the most strange and altogether unexpected manner; and the second circumstance was the fact of the Emir having taken certain slaves away with him. He had no doubt taken away those slaves who had been employed to immure his unfortunate nephew, and with the object of leaving no one who could throw any light on the fate of his victim. Why he had fled was not so clear, but probably some whisper of the resuscitation of his niece at the palace had ...
— Tales of the Caliph • H. N. Crellin |
