| 单词 | oubliette |
| 例句 | I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He knew there were true dungeons down in the castle cellars—oubliettes and torture chambers and dank pits where huge black rats scrabbled in the darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Of our prejudices against the Puritans, she writes: “Stigma is a vast oubliette.” Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet. A Thousand-Page Novel — Made Up of Mostly One Sentence — Captures How We Think Now 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A Morris oubliette means restraint into perfect immobility. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Beneath your feet is a plunging black oubliette. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z He was not in the oubliette for long. Raymond Goethals: Marseille's messiah who toppled mighty Milan | Paul Doyle 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Was the ghost seen admiring moats or pointing out that the oubliette needed a fresh coat of Sky Blue or what? At Home With the Macabre 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z However, instead of banning players from Titanfall entirely for cheating, Respawn has chosen to build an oubliette, saying in an announcement: Titanfall's Anti-Cheat System Activates, Is Beautiful And Hilarious 2014-03-27T14:48:00Z American oubliette Life without parole is an outrageous sentence for non-violent criminals What is it for? Education: Minding the gap 2013-11-14T16:01:03Z Here I was, then, in a kind of natural bottle dungeon or "oubliette", such as I have often seen since, both on the Spanish Main and in our own country. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The tunnel curved a little there, and he knew he must be near the bridge that crosses the oubliette. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z In another part of the castle is shown the oubliette—a pit or well, into which the victim was thrown, and fell into some unknown depth, and was seen no more. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z As the plan does not include any device for advancing partisan interests, it stands a fair chance of remaining in our national oubliette of intellectual desiderata. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z This royal keep was used as a prison, or, according to popular tradition, as oubliettes. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z "If he, like a fool,131 comes to Touraine, will you not make him revoke the treaty of Madrid or shut him up in one of Louis XI.'s oubliettes?" Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Two strong hands were under his arms; he was taken out of the stinking oubliette into the corridor beyond. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Have you so soon forgotten that ghastly oubliette they were driven down under a fraudulent promise of liberty? Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z “It is like looking into the oubliettes of a mediaeval castle,” said Yseulte, striving to peer through the apertures into the blackness beneath. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z But, at length, they asked about the oubliettes, and, chatting gaily, left. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Aided by a couple of archers, he searched vainly for the secret oubliette, till at length he bethought him of the two peasants who had been taken earlier in the day. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Ah, when thou shalt slumber, my darkling love, Beneath a black marble-made statuette, And when thou'lt have nought for thy house or alcove, But a cavernous den and a damp oubliette. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z It is built out of the red rock, and it has oubliettes and wells and pits and towers and everything of the kind that heart could wish to see. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z What if he were to encounter a snake in this long-closed-up oubliette, or foul air? Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Like so many of his kind, Trevor Smith was fated to sink out of sight in the dark, mysterious oubliette of London's failures. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life The oubliettes were turned into cemeteries, the halls reeked with the odor of burning bones. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The Devil's Chimney is a strange, natural oubliette of the Island, whose depth none has fathomed, though far below you may hear a subterranean waterfall roaring. An Isle in the Water And deeper still the deep-down oubliette, Down thirty feet below the smiling day. The So-called Human Race In the old days the determined bather had to shin down a pole through a funnel, and take his curative bath in the rocky oubliette of the spring. Westward with the Prince of Wales After a few moments a wisp of smoke from the crypt crept lazily out of the low oubliettes. The Crimson Tide A Novel It is the oubliette in which the Staphilinus buries the remains of his victims. The Industries of Animals As he plunged into the deep water of the oubliette a fiendish laugh echoed in his ears. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective They disappear, and their habitation is hardly even the dust-bin; it is the oubliette; and their places are taken by others whose fates are not other. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century "This labyrinth, interrupted by oubliettes, must have cooled the zeal of robbers and scholars." The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The sentry lighted a third cigarette, one eye on the barred oubliettes, from which the smoke crawled and spread out over the grass. The Crimson Tide A Novel M. Fouquet was left in his imprisonment, almost as entirely lost to the world as if he had been consigned to the oubliettes of the Bastile. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series The oubliette—a dark, dank dungeon hidden beneath the ground—was a favorite method of killing detectives, it seemed. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective A frightful explosion blew in the oubliette; the room rattled and clattered with shrapnel. Barbarians My dear mother was timid, and had a great dread of the Mysteries of Fernley, imagining a secret staircase in every wall, and an oubliette under every floor. Fernley House The guide said that this was one of the oubliettes, that is, a place where men could be destroyed secretly, and in such a manner that no one should ever know what became of them. Rollo in Geneva The marquis would probably have passed the rest of his life in one of the oubliettes of the Bastile had he not escaped from France. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series Generally speaking, the oubliette seemed to be the prevailing fashion in vengeful murder. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Standing on the lowest beam, she cautiously looked out through an oubliette and saw him lying on his back near the sheer edge of the roof. Barbarians So, resolutely, she let him drop down into her mind to some uncomfortable oubliette from whence he threatened with feeble insistence to pop up at any moment like a strange question or a sudden shame. Mary, Mary Why do I crawl about this pot, this oubliette, stupidly? Look! We Have Come Through! Other guests more or less distinguished visited here, some of them involuntarily; these latter were generally lodged in the Huderka Tower suitably fitted with oubliettes. From a Terrace in Prague “Is the oubliette prepared?” whispered a voice outside. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective I was in one of those oubliettes which at the will of my captors could be flooded! The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia From the landing the couple were dropped direct to the basement to a prearranged oubliette. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell No inmate of the oubliette could have been more lonely, and yet life was accessible, and even near. Despair's Last Journey But, as he came out from the murk of those chambers with their rotting floors, many of them undermined by oubliettes and dungeons, he felt a chill of fear. Plotting in Pirate Seas It was the water of the oubliette, and he gazed on it with horror as it rose, inch by inch, toward him. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Once within that dreaded fortress, the terrible oubliettes of which are below the surface of the Lake Ladoga, my identity would be lost and I should be quickly forgotten. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia Hope was left behind in those fearful oubliettes, whose sinister names carried utter despair with them. Orrain A Romance Is there not in yonder tower an oubliette that yawns for the disobedient vassal? Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre He gazed at me in amazement, then cast his eyes furtively about him, as if afraid a trap door would drop beneath him, and land him in my private oubliette. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The change could not have been more sudden and complete if, from a gaily lighted modern street, full of hum and bustle, they had fallen down an oubliette into a dark, deserted fairyland. The Golden Silence Her little grandson lighted a candle and showed us the oubliettes, which are subterranean dungeons, one above the other, and barred by mighty doors of wood and iron. A Little Swiss Sojourn What if the entrance were after the manner of a mediæval oubliette—through the ceiling! Pieces of Eight If one of his thin hands that clutched the chair arms had pressed a secret spring and loosed a trap to send me gasping down an oubliette, I should have been the less astounded. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The garden contained an oubliette, down which Mrs. Marsh, while walking in the evening, inadvertently fell. Masques & Phases He tried to imagine himself the hero of some Scott or Dumas tale, with a grim cardinal somewhere above, and oubliettes and torture chambers besetting his path. The Princess Elopes Was it to be believed that he had lived all this time, buried in some oubliette at Tournebut, and could one expect that Mme. de Combray would reveal the secret of his retreat? The House of the Combrays The oubliette--Almeric shuddered, and the colour faded from his face. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars It was indeed too early to hope for coffee, so they amused themselves by wandering up and down the stairs, throwing burning paper down the famous oubliette, and crossing perilously narrow ledges hand-in-hand. The Halo On the Continent the oubliettes are inside the house, and you are ostentatiously warned of their immediate neighbourhood. Masques & Phases Or I'd sit down on the oubliette and find one of Pa's journals from back home, well-thumbed and open to an article on mental telepathy. A Place so Foreign I felt as if I had fallen down an oubliette, and I was about to utter the loud shrieks befitting the occasion, when you wrote at last. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II "I daresay you are right; this house must be an oubliette till your awful uncle is confessed to." Bluebell A Novel In vain had Mrs. Besant been released from her modern oubliette before Mr. Montagu started for India. India, Old and New Two years ago at Tiffauges a physician discovered an oubliette and brought forth piles of skulls and bones. Là-bas I staggered into the WC, and hung my head in the oubliette for an eternity, but nothing was coming up. A Place so Foreign At one end is what is said to be an oubliette, now almost filled up. True Irish Ghost Stories A beam of dusty light shone into the oubliette of the murky rock vault in which the men were being kept as prisoners for tomorrow's ritual of Life and Energy. Scorched Earth There were narrow passages down which tortured men must once have been carried, or at the end of which some oubliette opened to sudden destruction. The Light That Lures In the cells above, in the dungeons beneath, one stumbled over rifts of hard earth, in the centre or in a corner of which yawned now the mouth of an unsealed oubliette, now a well. Là-bas In this there used to be in olden times an oubliette in which unhappy prisoners were let down. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 They were gilded oubliettes, savouring both of the cloister and the harem. The Man Who Laughs So into the oubliette they toppled him, clapping down the door in its place above. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle "Many a corpse has been flung down this oubliette," said he. The Flying Legion Many a time he had wandered in the dungeons, and listened to old stories of oubliettes. The Lake Then she took us into a tower where was the "oubliette." Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 The first was a master, who found me grieving in one of my oubliettes and took me into his study and tried to draw me out. The Ghost Ship Between Kettle's prison and the mate's was another of those bottle-shaped oubliettes, and in that there was presently a bustle of movement. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle For this was one of those bottle-shaped cells or oubliettes which hard men of old devised for the safe keeping of their captives. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 And deeper still the deep-down oubliette, Down thirty feet below the smiling day— In blackness—dogs' food thrown upon thy head. Queen Mary and Harold The old English mansion has its cellars, but never an oubliette, its porch-door always open to welcome a neighbour and to relieve the indigent. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Could it be one of the oubliettes in the roof of the doge's palace at Venice? A Rough Shaking The gloomy chamber, however, is generally called an oubliette. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 The old man, having tied a string to the top of the lantern, let it down through the round hole of the oubliette until it touched the ground many feet below. Two Summers in Guyenne O brother, from my ghastly oubliette I send my voice across the narrow seas— No more, no more, dear brother, nevermore— Sanguelac! Queen Mary and Harold Goblin, having shown les oubliettes, felt that her great coup was struck. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 It was an oubliette—a pit with a trap-door, which drew the veil of oblivion over the man who had vanished. Historical Miniatures The tower on the right is known as "La Tour Neuve," while the most interesting is that known as "La Tour de Montaüset" or "Monte-Oiseau," in which are the ancient dungeons and oubliettes. Twixt France and Spain Following an old servant who carried a lantern along a dark passage leading to an oubliette, I saw what looked like a large cattle trough, and inquired the use of it in such a place. Two Summers in Guyenne I was, therefore, far from comfortable beside the oubliette, and was glad to emerge again into the Roman sunshine. Hawthorne and His Circle Then she took us into a tower where was the oubliette. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 "There used to be a story of an oubliette that was supposed to be somewhere in the house," said Sabina. The Heart of Rome You can wander where you please, knock the walls for secret hiding-places, stamp upon the floor for oubliettes. The Evil Shepherd At the farthest end faint daylight appears, as it might to a dungeon prisoner at the bottom of an oubliette. Under Fire: the story of a squad I also recall the opening of an oubliette in the castle of San Angelo, which affected me like a nightmare. Hawthorne and His Circle Say, do you ever answer letters or is it your Queenly prerogative to drop your sweethearts down the public oubliette? Letters of Franklin K. Lane I have myself seen, within not many years, a construction like the dry well in the Palazzo Conti, which was discovered in the foundations of a Roman palace, and had been used as an oubliette. The Heart of Rome Does he think I have secret dungeons in my new abode," Sir Timothy demanded, "or oubliettes in which I keep and starve brainless youths for some nameless purpose? The Evil Shepherd Meanwhile the men were carrying me away with a great lighted torch; and I thought that they were about to throw me down the oubliette of Sammabo. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini My dear sir, there is nothing like oubliettes and secret prisons. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times Who knows whether they have not invited me here to take me prisoner, and to cast me, whom they hold to be their most dangerous enemy, into one of their oubliettes, their subterranean dungeons? Marie Antoinette and Her Son "You sang lustily enough just now," his Eminence had added, "and you shall pay by lodging awhile in an oubliette of the Bastille, where you may lift up your voice to sing the De profundis." The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes "Nay, lady, I could look to the gear for the oubliette if you would speak the word." The Dove in the Eagle's Nest The fragment of menacing keep, with its choked oubliettes, became a bower of tender ivy; the grim story of its crimes, properly edited by a contemporary bard of the family, passed into a charming ballad. A Phyllis of the Sierras The disappearance of prisoners, the oubliettes, are just what is needed. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times Miss Bartlett, in her room, fastened the window-shutters and locked the door, and then made a tour of the apartment to see where the cupboards led, and whether there were any oubliettes or secret entrances. A Room with a View "And I should not wish you to be thrown into prison, and myself into the oubliettes." The Vicomte De Bragelonne Unless I would have to seek thee down the oubliette, my little one," said Eberhard "or, what might even be worse, see thee burnt on the hillside for bewitching me with thine arts! The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Crowds of the curious roam through its caverns; gaze on the skeletons found walled up, on the oubliettes, iron cages, monstrous stone-blocks with padlock chains. The French Revolution "I remember that at the Castle of Rueil the Cardinal Richelieu had some horrible 'oubliettes' constructed." Twenty Years After "And I should not wish you to be thrown into prison and myself into the oubliettes." Ten Years Later |
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