Vocabulary Word
Word: immure
Definition: imprison; shut up in confinement; CF. wall
Definition: imprison; shut up in confinement; CF. wall
Sentences Containing 'immure'
``Take care, you are going to immure a traveller, Sinbad the Sailor, a man who comes to see Paris; you are going to make a patriarch of him.''
'It may be a sacrifice,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'to immure one's-self in a Cathedral town; but surely, Mr. Copperfield, if it is a sacrifice in me, it is much more a sacrifice in a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities.'
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