oubliettes

• And while oubliettes are still occasionally discovered in this country, I'll just keep hoping I never find myself trapped in one.Deborah SmithBookmark this post
• I was in one of those oubliettes which at the will of my captors could be flooded I held my breath and glanced around. —  The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
• He has the same old trick of being "sorry to say" whenever he has anything tragic or gruesome to relate, passing lightly over details of oubliettes, and skeletons found without their heads--as so many were on grim St. Giles's Hill Of course we went and had a look at St. Cross and Henri de Blois's old hospital almshouse. —  Set in Silver
• Fear is a word which meets us even in the sprightly pages of A Spiritual Ćneid_, a volume perhaps more fitly to be termed "An Ćsthetic Ramp He loved to dash out of college through the chill mists of a November morning to worship with "the few righteous men" of the University in the Chapel of Pusey House, which "conveyed a feeling, to me most gratifying, of catacombs, oubliettes, Jesuitry, and all the atmosphere of mystery that had long fascinated me He tells us how his nature "craved for human sympathy and support," and speaks of the God whom he "worshipped, loved, and feared." —  Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality
• They were gilded oubliettes, savouring both of the cloister and the harem. —  The Man Who Laughs

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