Durance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DURANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• restraint by physical force
• imprisonment or confinement
• Continuance; duration. See Endurance.
• Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
• A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
• In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
• imprisonment (especially for a long time)
• imprisonment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• restraint by or as if by physical force

Words related to DURANCE

durances11 imprisonment18

Words that contain DURANCE

durances11 endurance12 endurances13 perdurance15 perdurances16

How to use DURANCE in a sentence

• I went to the window and gazed at the Durance, which traced its broad course amidst the dark green verdure of the valley.
• The pale sun seemed like a great silver lamp, casting a shower of bright rays into the Durance.
• Oh! then, I saw nothing else, neither the Durance, nor the willows, nor the whiteness of the sky.
• The sound of her pearly laughter reached as far as me, mingled with the loud voice of the Durance.
• Ah! my well-beloved Jean, how right you were to give her to drink that morning beside the Durance.
• When we were at the end of it, on that terrace which overlooks the Durance, both of us stopped, gazing at the valley.
• Then, at a glance, I took in the fields that sloped down to the Durance, and I was the possessor of those vines, those meadows, that stubble, those olive-trees.
• One day, he will find a Babet of sixteen, on the banks of the Durance, to whom he will give some water.
• The loud roar of the Durance was increasing in the distance.
• And we still heard naught but the anger of the Durance, and the affrighted cattle and horses.
• I became as one possessed, I shook my fist at the Durance.
• But the rooms are bare, the kitchen empty, and we learn the important fact, that Quarantine is durance vile, without even the bread and water.
• The next day found me at La Bessee, at the junction of the Val Louise with the valley of the Durance, in full view of Mont Pelvoux.
• Though that suspicion as to some intended durance which Mr.
• CHAPTER VIII DURANCE VILE By September first a growing uneasiness hardened into distasteful certainty upon Stella.
• At length, after threading a high ascent, we saw the valley of the Durance suddenly below us.
• It was the successful pleading of the Princess Genevra that kept him from serving a period in durance vile.
• As soon as Miss Melville had been twenty-four hours in durance, and there was some reason to suppose that her spirit might be subdued to the emergency of her situation, Mr.
• People were in durance vile because they would not join the town guard or defence force.
• This formality achieved, he was led away to durance vile.
• Their wood for building comes mostly from the Alps, down the Durance and Rhone.
• There they all were held in durance, waiting for the Great Deliverer.
• It is enough that certain of our fellow-townsmen are in durance, and I go to release them.
• He was soon permitted to break from durance, and arriving at Oxford under the character of a confessor in the Royal cause, he was kindly welcomed by Dr.
• But his durance was light, his prison the large and pleasant city of Berlin, in which he could wander about perfectly free with the sole restriction of not going beyond the gates.
• There a sullen wild-eyed mite in petticoats was being dragged along, screaming, towards distasteful durance.
• I have been four months in durance vile, and vile durance it has been.
• He was put into durance vile, having been caught in the flagrant act of burglary on the high seas.
• After three months of durance she was removed to a Silesian fortress.
• A scene of ravenous feasting followed, in which the French, released from durance, were summoned to share.
• He was never soured, never angered by twelve years of durance, not exactly in a loathsome dungeon, but in very uncomfortable quarters.
• These were the property of the knights then held in durance by Sir Tarquin.

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