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Examples
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The bright metallic surfaces and light we would be blinded to, protected from, walled-up against.
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Turns out some hotel rooms need a UV sweep -- some just deserve to be walled-up and forgotten about.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Mali Elfman on Do Not Disturb Dan Persons 2011
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Turns out some hotel rooms need a UV sweep -- some just deserve to be walled-up and forgotten about.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Mali Elfman on Do Not Disturb Dan Persons 2011
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And next to the pillar was the walled-up gate, its bricks a shade different from the rest of the interior wall.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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Knowing something of Poe's work before you enter the theatre would be useful if you want to catch the references to beating hearts, walled-up kittens and fears of being buried alive.
Nevermore 2010
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My walled-up heart has convulsed, cracked, gaped open to admit Marcus Antonius, the wedge that did it his own love for me.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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In that walled-up space I will let everything grow in wild abandon.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Before it, were two iron helmets, with breast-pieces: made to close up tight and smooth upon the heads of living sufferers; and fastened on to each, was a small knob or anvil, where the directing devil could repose his elbow at his ease, and listen, near the walled-up ear, to the lamentations and confessions of the wretch within.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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My walled-up heart has convulsed, cracked, gaped open to admit Marcus Antonius, the wedge that did it his own love for me.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving.
Stress Positions 2004
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