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  •   Is chained and tortured — cabined, cribbed, confined,

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • When be entered the miserable room in which they were confined,

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • She would try to answer in such a way that they would take her to the stable where Arnolde was confined,

    Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981

  • She would try to answer in such a way that they would take her to the stable where Arnolde was confined,

    Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981

  • They say that angels are immaculate only so long as they remain in the angelic state; that, though confined,

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • "Well, Jean," I said, as I entered the room where he was confined,

    Princess Zara Ross Beeckman

  • But gropers both, through fields of thought confined,

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

  • The one who shall open the prison wherein she is confined,

    Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

  • As to the dungeon in which this Wronged One and other similarly wronged were confined,

    Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era 1899

  • When be entered the miserable room in which they were confined,

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

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