immure
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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 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
"It grieves me," said she, "to see you, in the bloom of youth and health, immure yourself in a living tomb, and refuse the consolations you would receive from intercourse with your species."
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie
But Louis XV. got wind of this threatened checkmate, and a royal mandate took her out of the convent walls which had threatened to immure her for life.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
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