were walling

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of wall.
  wall

  noun

  any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.

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were walling

Day succeeded day in Di's life, each day adding one more stone to the prison in which it seemed as if an inexorable hand were walling her up.

From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley

A perfectly modern man, indeed, who wants to build himself a house feels as if he were walling himself up alive in a mausoleum.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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