Sentence examples for were walled up from inspiring English sources

The two free columns of the pronaos were walled up to increase the size of the church; but the temple has recently been isolated and all modern accretions have been removed.

With the progressive decline in Byzantium's military fortunes, the gates were walled up and reduced in size in the later Palaiologan period, and the complex converted into a citadel and refuge.

When the heart is walled up, it turns to stone.

It isn't that Duckworth-Lewis are walled up behind a football-style publicity machine.

(Two had been walled up alive, and two had been strangled).

THE doorways have mostly been walled up and tiled over, the escalator dismantled and carted away.

Last year they decided to reopen an archway linking the classrooms that had been walled up years earlier.

Talk story about opening a sealed copper box, which was walled up in the masonry of the Pulitzer Bldg., 63 Park Row, in 1889, when the cornerstone was laid.

In "The Cask of Amontillado" English may have been transformed into Fortunato, the pompous aficionado of fine wines who is walled up alive.

"We uncovered so many chimneys that had been walled up; beautiful cornices and features that had been wallpapered over or covered in paint," Mr. Anderson said.

Like poor Fortunato, we too are walled up in a suffocating structure from which only death — or the end of the story — can release us.