Dungeon
A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette is a form of dungeon which is accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling.
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Famous quotes containing the word dungeon:
“I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.”
—George Berkeley (16851753)
“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.”
—Cyril Connolly (19031974)
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Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run....”
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