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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

Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who was this man, who, in the flower of his age, and with all the accomplishments of a gentleman, chose to retire from the world, and with his sad companion, immure himself in the woods?

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

Better therefore 'twere, methinks, You should not immure me: Don't you know without my help You can not secure me?

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Return to those imprisoning walls; immure your sweet youth in a cloister?

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

No trophy this—a Stone unhewn,   And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman

I didn't know anybody could escape from that awful sort of prison-house in which our—I'm English now—in which our upper class immures itself.

From Michael by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

E'en to the darkened dungeon that immures Thy soul, some feeble glimmer finds its way.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

This is the cloister Where he immures me—Naples' gayest revels; The only bar wherewith he hedges me Is his unbounded trust, that leaves me free.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

From the humanist point of view, it immures the mind in the study of remote epochs and past civilisations, and does nothing to prepare the pupil for the fulfilment of contemporary duties.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain

Abandoned by or cut off from their families, they are immured in lonely old age, waiting with restless resignation as the hours of their lives wind down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

In the century or so since “The Great Gatsby” was published, we have been lost in Gatsby’s house, immured in a never-ending revival.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

“She is a friendless orphan,” said Levy, “whose relatives have immured her in an asylum without ever producing her for the court.”

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2019

They have now immured her to the girdle.

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John

Whether he’s an exemplar of patient fortitude or of contemptible cowardice, Assange, 44, has managed to frustrate the British and Swedish governments by immuring himself within the embassy, which is treated as Ecuadorean territory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2015

He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

My terror of intruders had rendered me blind to the consequences of immuring myself in this cheerless recess.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

The Sacred College consisted at the time of twenty-seven cardinals, four of whom were absent at distant sees and unable to reach Rome in time for the immuring of the Conclave.

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael

In our own time the burial of a bottle with coins under a foundation stone is the faded memory of the immuring of a human victim.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various