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

If I can give any good advice    Most certainly I will; In your stone bower yourself immure    From the approaching ill.

From Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian by Borrow, George Henry

Else, my fair! thy early life ’twill cost thee: And beneath the walls they will immure thee!”

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John