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In the centre of the chamber there is an oubliette to the darkness below.
WINGED WHEELS IN FRANCEMICHAEL MYERS SHOEMAKERIt was an oubliette—a pit with a trap-door, which drew the veil of oblivion over the man who had vanished.
HISTORICAL MINIATURESAUGUST STRINDBERGIn this there used to be in olden times an oubliette in which unhappy prisoners were let down.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCEVARIOUSIt was an oubliette, a dungeon where the prisoner might be buried alive, and never come forth again, alive or dead.
PASSAGES FROM THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTEBOOKS, VOLUME 1NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAs he plunged into the deep water of the oubliette a fiendish laugh echoed in his ears.
PHILO GUBB CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVEELLIS PARKER BUTLERThe oubliette—a dark, dank dungeon hidden beneath the ground—was a favorite method of killing detectives, it seemed.
PHILO GUBB CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVEELLIS PARKER BUTLERIt was the water of the oubliette, and he gazed on it with horror as it rose, inch by inch, toward him.
PHILO GUBB CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVEELLIS PARKER BUTLERIn vain had Mrs. Besant been released from her modern oubliette before Mr. Montagu started for India.
INDIA, OLD AND NEWSIR VALENTINE CHIROLIs there not in yonder tower an oubliette that yawns for the disobedient vassal?
BARN AND THE PYRENEESLOUISA STUART COSTELLOThe appalling cynicism that constructed this particular example of an oubliette beneath the chapel floor is worthy of remark.
THE CORNISH COAST (SOUTH)CHARLES G. HARPERWORDS RELATED TO OUBLIETTE
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