walling-up

Updated: May 13, 2025

The details she gives about her own sick-room exclude the idea of that stricter "reclusion" which is popularly spoken of as "walling-up" not of course in the mythical sense. With these brief indications sufficient to satisfy the craving of our imagination for particulars of time and place, let us turn to her own account of the circumstances of her visions, as well as of their nature.

George Tyrrell - The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)