| They are like the French medieval penalty of the oubliette, where a man was put in a hole in the ground with bars over the top and forgotten. |
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| I'm trapped in an oubliette, that's what this is, an oubliette for the mentally unstable. |
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| Unless he was in an oubliette, the pirates would undoubtedly come for him, and that, surprisingly enough, was a bit of something to hope for. |
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| How do we stop from sliding down the slippery slope till we reach the oubliette where lurk the rack, the branding-iron, and the thumbscrew? |
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| For a few hours, it meant an oubliette from whatever reality it is that everyone wanted me to face. |
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| Prison is no longer society's oubliette but a mirror in which it constantly checks its state of health. |
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| The earth opened up and I plunged into an oubliette with him cackling from above. |
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| It was an oubliette for material that the owner of the business had been unable to sell to collectors or historians. |
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| Perhaps I should have shifted him completely in the oubliette. |
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| Our historical memory, then, is at best meagre, almost a psychological oubliette that robs us of heroes and leaves us only flawed forefathers. |
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| As he stood draped in a flat black cloak and tunic of stitched faces, the old warrior's voice echoed off the inner walls of the ancient oubliette. |
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| It was rescued from the oubliette by the senior editor in charge of the book section and passed to the managing editor, who was looking for a permanent art critic. |
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| But the case for consigning Europe, as a process of integration and solidarity between a given number of member states, to the oubliette of history is as yet unproven. |
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| A gushing current of ice cold water jerked me back to reality with stunning suddenness, jerked me back to the misery and pain of my existence in the stone oubliette. |
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