In the oubliette the miserable men could clasp helpless hands, curse or pray, as the case might be; but in the iron cage the death agony was prolonged.
We were shown the cachot and the oubliette where the living body of the prisoner was attacked by rats.
Even now, although the poor souls took wings long ago, the cachot and the oubliette fill you with disgust.
Two years ago at Tiffauges a physician discovered an oubliette and brought forth piles of skulls and bones.
Generally speaking, the oubliette seemed to be the prevailing fashion in vengeful murder.
As he plunged into the deep water of the oubliette a fiendish laugh echoed in his ears.
In the centre of the chamber there is an oubliette to the darkness below.
It was the shaft of an oubliette which must have opened somewhere in the upper part of the house.
There used to be a story of an oubliette that was supposed to be somewhere in the house," said Sabina.
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.
Nay, lady, I could look to the gear for the oubliette if you would speak the word.
The oubliette would probably be the portion of the low-born girl who had interfered with the sixteen quarterings of the Adlerstein shield, and poor Christina never stepped across its trap-door without a shudder lest it should open beneath her.
Having been unable to make use of the oubliette prison communicating with the lower hall, for the purpose of blowing up the tower, the Marquis had ordered the door of this dungeon to be closed.
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.
I staggered into the WC, and hung my head in the oubliette for an eternity, but nothing was coming up.
Passing through the entrance hall, which has a remarkable collection of Medicean armour and weapons, and in which (I have read but not seen) is an oubliette under one of the great pillars, the famous court is gained and the famous staircase.
There, where the shaft of the oubliette came down, she was quite sure of finding the little package of sheets which meant so much to her and which had almost meant a fortune to Lucia.
Do you remember the oubliette between the guard-room and the tower?
Against his own statement, and against her own secret positive conviction, yet to give him one chance, as it were, she had made one desperate effort to have the oubliette opened and searched.
She now believed that the confession had, after all, caught upon some projection or in some crevice of the masonry in the shaft of the oubliette at Gerano, and that it would never be heard of again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oubliette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
