Those still standing are immured by their money, trapped between Western sanctions and the worse punishment that breaking with the Kremlin might entail.
And she had missed the daily contact with him, even if there was always someone around. She had missed the importance and activity of her lumber business while she was immured.
I shall enter at the same gate through which I came with my mother, when, after my father's death, she left that delightful retreat to immure herself in your melancholy town.
Swithin took up his old position as the lonely philosopher at the column, and Lady Constantine lapsed back to immured existence at the house, with apparently not a friend in the parish.
" I have always thought, " he said reflectively, " that the system of mourning, of immuring women in crepe for the rest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee" .
A cast-away lonely as Robinson Crusoe — a prisoner immured in a dungeon for life — nay, even a saint in Patmos, has his endurance, his strength, his faith, best described by being spoken of as " a man" .