Crossword-Solution: OUBLIETTE 9 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The pay won’t be very good at first, but living is not dear out there.” “West Africa,” said Comus, reflectively; “it’s a sort of modern substitute for the old-fashioned _oubliette_, a convenient depository for tiresome people.

Yea, in that ultimate heart’s occult abode To lie as in an oubliette of God, Or as a bower untrod, Built by a secret Lover for His Spouse;— Sole choice is this your life allows, Sad tree, whose perishing boughs So few birds house! DREAM-TRYST.

When the footman had laid out his clothes, and his step grew fainter along the passage, until it was suddenly swallowed up with the closing of a red baize door in the turret staircase, like a trap in an oubliette, the whole building seemed to sink back into repose.

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.

CHAPTER VIII PASSING THE OUBLIETTE WHO can describe the dreariness of being snowed-up all the winter with such a mother-in-law as Freiherrinn Kunigunde? Yet it was well that the snow came early, for it was the best defence of the lonely castle from any attack on the part of the Schlangenwaldern, the Swabian League, or the next heir, Freiherr Kasimir von Adlerstein Wildschloss.