Durance [noun]

The two weeks of durance vile among the low castes in the steerage should be amply repaid.

Here his charge ended, he had conveyed the Land-despoiler to durance vile.

Here he was held in durance for some time, and was then brought to Paris to be tried for treason.

"The best friend Christina ever had" she would surely some day see could not have lingered in the black durance that he loathed.

But the case was very different, when Hannibal crossed from the shores of the Durance to the banks of the Po.

Moreover, the ambassador at Madrid has been placed in durance.

I should not say that you had much durance in you, that remains to be proved.

Now the Durance, though an absurdly tricky river, is no arm of the sea.

Is it possible that innocent people are held in durance here?

He lived to give his evidence in the trial, and was released from durance; but a few days later he was found dead by his own hand.