| Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister. |
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| So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. |
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| The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles. |
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| It is easy to depict them as a complacent gerontocracy immured in its certainties and unwilling to rethink the future. |
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| The upper-class is too immured in money and cushioned by creature comforts and servants to know anything about uxoriousness. |
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| The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour. |
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| Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death. |
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| Mr. Shimell, the uneasy guest, wrestled with his uncomfortable role, immured and unreachable — or possibly, touched by this woman. |
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| It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along. |
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| The upper part of the cave saw the slow death of 510 Cathars, immured alive in 1328 on inquisitor Jacques Fournier's order. |
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| At the third visit when the gravedigger pulled for me the cloths from the walls, I could study the immured marble slabs. |
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| One watches a thin person thicken layer by layer, and a young active person became immured. |
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| To put a question would have been inhuman, and she wouldn't have heard, anyway, so immured was she in her fortress of desolation. |
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| We have immured ourselves to such an extent by constantly repeating that Revelation, since the Apocalypse, has been closed that we can no longer even see what is hidden in it. |
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| To the soft sighing of the evening wind it danced and swayed across the roadways, tapping against windows and bathing the parched foliage of such scrawny trees as still stood with lower trunks immured in concrete sidewalks. |
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| From the beginning of civilization to the Middle Ages, people were immured, or walled in, and would die for want of food. |
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| Jewellery coverage in case of simple theft, breaking and entering is provided for up to 20,000 CHF., given the items were not locked away in a safe of at least 100 kg weight or in an immured safe. |
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| Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons and other members of his family were immured in the Muda, a tower of Pisa, and starved to death in the thirteenth century. |
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| They were rediscovered in June 1885 when workmen, carrying out alterations to the high altar, found a battered lead casket immured in a niche in the north wall of the chancel. |
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