33 Words to use with dungeons

ELDRED Better this bare rock, Though it were tottering over a man's head, Than a tight case of dungeon walls for shelter From such rough dealing.

" So the dungeon-door was unbolted, and the Cardinals came forth, sheepish and crestfallen.

The spot was more dark and lone than a dungeon cell.

Two little bells rang shrilly, And the dream went with the hour: She lay in the cloister stilly, He far in the dungeon-tower.

There from their dungeon window they behold the fair maid Emily; both fall desperately in love with her, and their friendship turns to strenuous rivalry.

As if through a dungeon-grate he peered With broad and burning face.

On the third day Giant Despair came and flogged them with a great crabtree cudgel, and so disabled them that they were not even able to rise up from the mire of their dungeon floor.

I trust you as I trust the stars; Nor cruel loss, nor scoff of pride, Nor beggary, nor dungeon bars, Can move you from my side!

Thus armed, ascending where the eye could trace The hostile force, and mark each leader's place, He called Hujír, the captive Chief addressed, And anxious thus, his soul's desire expressed: "A prisoner thou, if freedom's voice can charm, And dungeon darkness fill thee with alarm, That freedom merit, shun severest woe, And truly answer what I ask to know!

Post speedily to Windsor; take this ring; Bid Blunt deliver Bruce's wife and child Into your hands, and ask him for the key Of the dark tower o'er the dungeon vault:

The account of the prisoner himself, and of the lingering deaths of the brothers; the first frenzy of the survivor, and the desolation which succeeds it I only loved: I only drew The accursed breath of dungeon dew, the bird's song breaking on the night of his solitude; his growing enamoured of despair, and regaining his freedom with a sigh, are all strokes from a master hand.

But if our doom be past in bonds to lie For life, and in a loathsome dungeon die, Then be thy wrath appeased with our disgrace, And show compassion to the Theban race, Oppress'd by tyrant power!

And as I wrestled with the adversary that had dominion over him, he buried his shrunk and convulsed features in the covering of his miserable pallet; while his fingers twisted and writhed about, like so many scotched snakes, and his low, sick moans, made the very dungeon darker.

And I have been With starry Galileo in his cell, That wise magician with the brow serene, Who fathomed space; and I have seen him tell The wonders of the planetary sphere, And trace the ramparts of heaven's citadel On the cold flag-stones of his dungeon drear.

All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter:

this canna be; For if a' Liddesdale were here the night, The morn's the day that I maun dee." "Full fifteen stane o' Spanish iron They hae laid a' right sair or me; Wi' locks and keys I am fast bound Into this dungeon dark and dreirie!" "Fear ye nae that," quo' the Laird's Jock; "A faint heart ne'er won a fair ladie; Work thou within, we'll work without, And I'll be sworn we'll set thee free.

In The Prisoner, the speaker, a woman, is "confined in triple walls," yet in spite of bolts and bars and dungeon gloom she holds within herself an inextinguishable joy and unmeasured freedom brought to her every night by a "messenger.

Down many a winding step to dungeons dank, Where anguish wails aloud, and fetters clank;

When through his dungeon grating In Mantua's fortress grim He saw his loyal comrades Stretch out their hands to him, He cried: "God give to you his aid, And to the German realm betrayed, And to the land Tyrol!" With step serene and steadfast, His hands behind him chained, Went forth the valiant Hofer To death which he disdained, That death, which by his valor foiled Had oft from Iselberg recoiled, In his loved land, Tyrol.

He told her of tragedies enacted in by-gone timessuch ancient tales of violent death and broken hearts as attach themselves to gray stone walls and dungeon keeps.

The officious servants hurry him away, And the poor captive in a dungeon lay.

Then let him, let him breathe unseen, Or in a dungeon live; Nor never, never know the sweets That liberty can give.

At midnight, in a dungeon lone, An aged female knelt in prayer; But oh, her low, sepulchral tone Seemed fraught with anguish and despair.

For a moment, enveloped as he was in straw, and with the rude arch of the dungeon meeting in four rough-hewn groinings above his head, he stared about him in bewilderment.

He glared at me as a dungeon prisoner might glare at his keeper for his answer to "Where can I find liberty?"

33 Words to use with  dungeons