And she knew no way to break the imprisoning wall and let in air for him.

She began the stupendous task of freeing him from the imprisoning tree limbs.

Goldsmith has somewhat sarcastically lamented that the appetites of the rich do not increase with their wealth; in like manner, it would be a grievous thing could liberty be monopolized or scraped into heaps like wealth; a petty tyrant may persecute and imprison thousands, but he cannot thereby add one hour or inch to his own liberty.

He turned his gaze upward, and it ended with that same imprisoning barrier of rock.

There, blackening with rage, he bellows and bounds like a wild beast, among the imprisoning cliffs: he bursts, overthrows, and rolls afar their broken fragments.

He cast a furious glance at the man whose fingers had twisted their imprisoning cords.

Yet she clutched his imprisoning fingers and kissed them.

It stunned Sam completely, and, to his great relief, Merritt felt the imprisoning grip relax.

By midnight its paling disk had become totally eclipsed, the clouds hung low over the city, a dense blanket imprisoning heat which was oppressive even in the open and stifling in the ill-ventilated restaurants.

Certainly never before did shipwrecked men gaze upon such imprisoning immensity and inhospitable sterility.

She hated the blazing sky and the parched earth, the barren veldt, the imprisoning kopjes, the hopeless sense of oppression, of being always somehow in the wrong.

Rassi was a man of low origin, who kept his place partly by submitting good-humouredly to the abuse and even the kicks of his master, and partly by rousing that master's alarms and afterwards allaying them by hanging or imprisoning liberals, with the ready assistance of a carefully corrupted judicial bench.

She opened her hand bag and drew forth her mirror, and propping it up against her knee, proceeded to arrange the curls that had escaped from their imprisoning pins and were riding around her ears.

Owing to the wedge-like form of the vessel's bottom, as well as to the circumstance that the ice of the outer floe had a similar shape, projecting beneath the schooner's keel, the craft was lifted bodily, with an upward jerk, as if she were suddenly released from some imprisoning power.

May there not be at least a partial release from the imprisoning verdict that a man's philosophy is the formula of his personality?

That's why the men who want to hurry up and start a new political era imprison kings and cut their heads off.

A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in a cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying; So soon to exchange the imprisoning womb For darker closets of the tomb!

Go back, dear child, from a work thou canst not understand, and imprison sunbeams for the panting world in flowery valleys!