What is "emprison"

Usage examples of "emprison".

One gets a fantastic impression of an emprisoned race burrowing deeper and deeper into the black earth, century by century, and losing more and more of their human attributes as they sank to each new level.

There now he liueth in eternall blis,Ioying his goddesse, and of her enioyd:Ne feareth he henceforth that foe of his,Which with his cruell tuske him deadly cloyd:For that wilde Bore, the which him once annoyd,She firmely hath emprisoned for ay,That her sweet loue his malice mote auoyd,In a strong rocky Caue, which is they say,Hewen vnderneath that Mount, that none him losen may.

He had been reduced for a time, but he had survived, preserved by the law of Time which emprisoned him upon the Earth so the legends said.

In outrage and pain, the Creator cast his Enemy down-out of the universal heavens onto the Earth-and emprisoned him here within the arch of Time.

Slowly, the buzz scaled upward, as if a swarm of huge, mad bees were emprisoned in the dirt.

He was emprisoned here while every degree of the sun, every heartbeat of time, carried his companions closer to death.

Half a thousand people could have been emprisoned here, and no one who lacked Vain's instincts or knowledge could ever have found them.

The three had been captured by Lord Foul, emprisoned by the might of the Illearth Stone, mastered by Ravers.

Half a thousand people could have been emprisoned here, and no one who lacked Vain’s instincts or knowledge could ever have found them.

The Cimmerian was no longer the same man who had emprisoned a part of her and carried it away with him.