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
"Your grandmother may immure me in this dungeon, and scare away my senses; but she will never rob me of my hopes of salvation."
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
But Louis XV. got wind of this threatened checkmate, and a royal mandate took her out of the convent walls which had threatened to immure her for life.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
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