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Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. has had to learn--repeatedly, with every immigrant wave--that it cannot immure itself behind a wall of immigration restrictions and cultural purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old Arch-fiend did them immure, To terrify them seeking; They bade them God's dear Word abjure, And fain would stop their speaking.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Side by side with this nunnery, where the precocious child passed one of the happiest epochs of her life, stood the prison which was to immure her in later years.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

"Your grandmother may immure me in this dungeon, and scare away my senses; but she will never rob me of my hopes of salvation."

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round Ninefold; and gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

From the humanist point of view, it immures the mind in the study of remote epochs and past civilisations, and does nothing to prepare the pupil for the fulfilment of contemporary duties.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

No trophy this—a Stone unhewn,   And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville

I didn't know anybody could escape from that awful sort of prison-house in which our—I'm English now—in which our upper class immures itself.

From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

My acquaintance with Mrs. Gerome is too slight to warrant the utterance of an opinion relative to her idiosyncrasies, but I am afraid cynicism rather than grief immures her from society.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

Abandoned by or cut off from their families, they are immured in lonely old age, waiting with restless resignation as the hours of their lives wind down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Such findings remain mostly immured in the academy, however.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2020

“She is a friendless orphan,” said Levy, “whose relatives have immured her in an asylum without ever producing her for the court.”

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2019

With great reverence they showed us the spot under which this unfortunate frog had been immured in the centre of the shrine.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

Whether he’s an exemplar of patient fortitude or of contemptible cowardice, Assange, 44, has managed to frustrate the British and Swedish governments by immuring himself within the embassy, which is treated as Ecuadorean territory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2015

He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her instinct at the moment was to take her child and flee, immuring herself far from those who would rob her of her only remaining interest in the world.

From The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland

When Kate took to immuring herself in her room he felt that it was time for him to interfere.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sacred College consisted at the time of twenty-seven cardinals, four of whom were absent at distant sees and unable to reach Rome in time for the immuring of the Conclave.

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini