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  • Immured in a tiny between-decks cubby which was filled mostly with boxes and bales, tied as well by the rope around his neck, he waited from moment to moment for the door to open and admit, realised in the flesh, the resplendent vision of Steward which blazed through the totality of his consciousness.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • Immured in her nursing home, Grace attracts the attention of a director making a film about the tragedy that occurred in the stately home way back in 1924.

    Bringing the Past Alive « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

  • Sorry to have been away from you good people for so long, but I was Immured in writing my first-ever full-size professional comics script, and I dursn't take any time away from the panels and quips and so forth to chat about anything.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.

    Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954

  • Immured in my apartment for political reasons, I am reduced to this species of amusement; and this hook attached to this thread contained a grain of wheat.

    The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous

  • Immured for his safety in a voluntary but gloomy prison, occupied intensely in the plan of a mighty revolution against the most powerful hierarchy that has ever existed, engaged continuously in the laborious task of translating the Sacred Scriptures, only partially freed from the prejudices of education, it is little surprising that the antagonist of the Church should have experienced infernal hallucinations.

    The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

  • Immured throughout the prolonged winter within its icy sarcophagus, it is not released before the middle of June, while the premature severity of

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 Various

  • Immured in the nursery, how could her little plot proceed?

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • Immured in a Dutch fortress in 1619, he managed to escape and fled to Paris, where he prepared and in 1625 published his immortal work.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • Immured in a tiny between-decks cubby which was filled mostly with boxes and bales, tied as well by the rope around his neck, he waited from moment to moment for the door to open and admit, realised in the flesh, the resplendent vision of Steward which blazed through the totality of his consciousness.

    Chapter 22 1917

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