mure

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From Time Magazine Archive

And he had let mure all the mountain about with a strong wall and a fair. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Next we drove to San Paolo fuori le mure, of the burning of which Thorwaldsen's Museum possesses a painting by Leopold Robert, but which at that time had been entirely re-built in the antique style.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

They are brought into a cavern, the entrance to which Roger is ordered to mure up.

From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

And so with drawing the hole people, he came to a dyck in a mure edge, upoun the sowth-west syd of Mauchlyne, upoun the which he ascended.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David