immures
- present tense form of immure (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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)
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
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
Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round Ninefold; and gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
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
