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- Cleaver is the only employee who knows about the hoard of Unwinds sequestered in the far reaches of the lot.† (source)
- Sequester them at the base too?† (source)
- We'd gone back to using the face masks and rubber gloves, and brought down a kerosene heater and sequestered them in one of the larger first-floor offices off the main lobby.† (source)
- This time he would not sequester the jury, which would improve matters slightly, but he had no new evidence and no new witnesses.† (source)
- One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door.† (source)
- If we can't solve it this way, then we'll sequester your family and do as we like from then on.† (source)
- We ate the meat all right and were glad to have it, but the trinkets she sequestered in her bedroom, out of sight.† (source)
- Since the start of the Nazi occupation, they had been sequestered by their families in back rooms, their schools and training centers shut down, hidden from a government that had decided they were not fit to live.† (source)
- He would then scour the air, looking for happy dreams to replace the ones he had sequestered away.† (source)
- A single man, more or less young and not ill-favoured, appears to one who has long been sequestered, and deprived of masculine company.† (source)
- He had pushed away any thoughts of the place since Missy's disappearance, sequestering his emotions securely in the padlocked basement of his own heart.† (source)
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- They had been sequestered on the second floor and had speculated before going to bed, said the foreman, that the snowstorm would interrupt the trial.† (source)
- Eragon quickly sequestered his mind from the touch of the other.† (source)
- Instead, she sequestered herself in a corner of the library where there were carpeted risers, where she liked to imagine a teacher reading aloud to her kindergartners.† (source)
- The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.† (source)
- Sequestered on a California campus.† (source)
- The last of the day's light fanned slowly upon the plain behind him and withdrew again down the edges of the world in a cooling blue of shadow and dusk and chill and a few last chitterings of birds sequestered in the dark and wiry brush.† (source)
- Thomas Jefferson noted this while reflecting on the tiny incentive that led to the Boston Tea Party and, in turn, the American Revolution: "So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."† (source)
- He sequestered Father Nicanor in the parish house under pain of execution and prohibited him from saying mass or ringing the bells unless it was for a Liberal victory.† (source)
- There is the secret of the bomb and there are the secrets that the bomb inspires, things even the Director cannot guess—a man whose own sequestered heart holds every festering secret in the Western world—because these plots are only now evolving.† (source)
- But then thugs sequestered Rath and two other girls inside a karaoke lounge that operated as a brothel.† (source)
- Rejected for his diminutive stature, he sequestered himself in the Canadian wilderness, "a-huntin' and a-fishin'."† (source)
- Pouring out of doorways and alleys in the village, Mortenson saw, were groups of veiled women scurrying back to their vehicles, from the spots where they'd chosen to sequester themselves through the long night of waiting.† (source)
- And Chelise would live there too, beside the library where she would sequester herself and write into the night.† (source)
- I inquired immediately what was ever the matter, and she would not speak to me until we found ourselves sequestered in my chambers, with the door fully bolted.† (source)
- The legendary Strategic Air Command has squadrons of B-47 and B-52 bombers ready to launch, the pilots sequestered in secure "Alert" facilities.† (source)
- We awaited the verdict in the small anteroom across the hall where witnesses were sequestered before being called in to testify.† (source)
- I leave them and sequester myself in my room to examine Wilhelmina Wyatt's slate.† (source)
- He approved of what he saw, recalling the startled reaction of a hairdresser in Montparnasse who had sequestered him in a curtained booth while performing the blond transformation.† (source)
- The air above that sequestered little triangle of sand which Nathan's lifeguard friend, Morty Haber, staked out on Sunday afternoons as a private social sanctuary, had been filled with the dirtiest talk I had ever heard in what might be termed mixed company.† (source)
- They've left the premises and are sequestered at the airport.† (source)
- And, sequestered in his dark, lonely cell, Daddy is sobbing.† (source)
- We have remained sequestered from the world for far too long.† (source)
- I thought they were sequestered at the airport.† (source)
- Michael Beach had seen Zoe Patterson leaving the room where the witnesses were sequestered.† (source)
- I know I can't go in, but Patrick's sequestered, too, isn't he?† (source)
- The witnesses were sequestered by side, prosecution in one room and defense in another.† (source)
- Instead, she was sequestered, which was a fancy word for being kept clueless.† (source)
- For the past two and a half months the sheriffs department had rented it from Arve Sommensen for the purpose of sequestering the Susan Marie and the Islander in berths side by side.† (source)
- There's nothing we can do about the horrendous publicity, of course, but this time we're gonna sequester the jury to shield them from it.† (source)
- Both the political instructor and I have spoken to you many times concerning your tendency to sequester yourself from the people, and your lack of self-motivation in seeking progress.† (source)
- But the bigger issue is the requirement in the security regulations that they be sequestered at the base for extended periods.† (source)
- After they had foiled the Ra'zac's counterattack, the prominent members of Carvahall had sequestered themselves in an attempt to decide what action the village should take and if Horst and his allies should be punished for initiating the hostilities.† (source)
- American troops still in Afghanistan were largely sequestered, hunting for Bin Laden and his supporters or providing security for the new government of Hamid Karzai.† (source)
- I fear that John has directed his fears to Sukeena herself, for I am told by Millicent that Sukeena has been sequestered in the staff kitchen, where she is being questioned by the police.† (source)
- He walked through the narrow twisting streets of the town with its ancient buildings and small sequestered plazas.† (source)
- In the jockeys' room he orchestrated a string of clever practical jokes, sequestered himself in corners to pore over literature, and mystified his fellow jocks with aphorisms from Omar Khayyam and "Old Waldo" Emerson.† (source)
- Therefore, since it seems unlikely that either of you will have a chance to return here for further instruction before the conclusion of this war, and since it seems even more unlikely that there shall ever be another dragon and Rider for us to instruct while Galbatorix still bestrides the warm earth, we have decided that we no longer have any reason to remain sequestered in Du Weldenvarden.† (source)
- He would have assumed she was upstairs, springing Josie out of the sequestered witness room, as she had done yesterday.† (source)
- She was the only person left sitting in the sequestered witness room, which meant that this was nearly over; that soon, she'd be able to breathe again.† (source)
- She's still sequestered.'† (source)
- It was a sequestered place, enclosed and embraced in a single, winding valley.† (source)
- But, of course, she could do more with Frank in this sequestered alcove than in a breathless reel and she could listen fascinated to his talk and encourage him to greater flights of foolishness.† (source)
- These things are a part of life itself; but languor— the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding—that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.† (source)
- The family history was typical of the Catholic squires of England; from Elizabeth's reign till Victoria's they lived sequestered lives, among their tenantry and kinsmen, sending their sons to school abroad, often marrying there, inter-marrying, if not, with a score of families like themselves, debarred from all preferment, and learning, in those lost generations, lessons which could still be read in the lives of the last three men of the house.† (source)
- And the Countess nodded at the sequestered couple.† (source)
- She knew the sequestered spots where the hens laid their eggs.† (source)
- To be sure, there might have been a purpose in his questions; for though he was thus sequestered, and like the other landed gentlemen of Scotland, stripped by the late Act of Parliament of legal powers, he still exercised a patriarchal justice in his clan.† (source)
- There was a roomful of old books at Bly—last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.† (source)
- But until their arrival and the necessity for his trip to the village he sequestered in a far corner of mind all thought of peril, of his past life, and almost that of the present.† (source)
- The scene was rather too wild to be pastoral, but it was serene, tranquil, giving the impression of a remote community, prosperous and happy, drifting along the peaceful tenor of sequestered lives.† (source)
- It seems plain that schemers would choose more sequestered quarters to arrange their plans, that politicians would not gather here in company to discuss anything save formalities, where the sharp-eared may hear, and it would scarcely be justified on the score of thirst, for the majority of those who frequent these more gorgeous places have no craving for liquor.† (source)
- No more to wait the twilight of the moon in this sequestered vale of star and spire, for one eternal morning of desire passes to time and earthy afternoon.† (source)
- The scout and the Indians appeared to be familiar with the sequestered place where they now were; for, leaning their rifle against the trees, they commenced throwing aside the dried leaves, and opening the blue clay, out of which a clear and sparkling spring of bright, glancing water, quickly bubbled.† (source)
- To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.† (source)
- It was no ordinary misanthropy that kept Captain Nemo and his companions sequestered inside the Nautilus's plating, but a hate so monstrous or so sublime that the passing years could never weaken it.† (source)
- The path they took led them but a short distance above the hut of Leather-Stocking, and there was a point in the road which commanded a bird's-eye view of the sequestered spot.† (source)
- —Douglas While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the castle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered turret.† (source)
- What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?† (source)
- Burdened with the guilty consciousness of the sequestered tarts, and fearing that Dodo's sharp eyes would pierce the thin disguise of cambric and merino which hid their booty, the little sinners attached themselves to 'Dranpa', who hadn't his spectacles on.† (source)
- In returning to labour in this sequestered spot he had anticipated an escape from the chafing of social necessities; yet behold they were here also.† (source)
- Why, seeing that it was pre-eminently an airy, accessible, and sequestered spot for interviews, the cheerfullest form of those occurrences never took kindly to the soil of the ruin, would be a curious inquiry.† (source)
- Remembering his companion's propensity,—of which his nose, indeed, perpetually warned all beholders like a beacon,—Nicholas had drawn him into a sequestered tavern.† (source)
- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.† (source)
- Without communicating his intention to any one, the bridegroom proceeded with a palpitating heart to the little sequestered arbour, where he had overheard his bride offering up those petitions for his happiness and conversion.† (source)
- They have visitors in the high summer weather, when a grey cloak and umbrella, unknown to Chesney Wold at other periods, are seen among the leaves; when two young ladies are occasionally found gambolling in sequestered saw-pits and such nooks of the park; and when the smoke of two pipes wreathes away into the fragrant evening air from the trooper's door.† (source)
- CHAPTER 1 Introduces all the Rest There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason.† (source)
- The sequestered situation of this church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits.† (source)
- They loved their sequestered home.† (source)
- …through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line — that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen — that then I desired more of…† (source)
- In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest, they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world.† (source)
- Now our old king sequestered for himself a herd of oxen and a flock of sheep, three hundred beasts with herdsmen—for in Elis a great debt was his due: a four-horse team of racing horses and their chariot that once would have contended in the games and raced to win the tripod, but Augeias, lord of Elians, kept them, and sent home the empty-handed, grieving charioteer.† (source)
- Webster was the first American professional scholar, and despite his frequent engrossment in public concerns and his endless public controversies, there was always something sequestered and almost medieval about him.† (source)
- This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:— Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires A sequester from liberty, fasting, and prayer, Much castigation, exercise devout; For here's a young and sweating devil here That commonly rebels.† (source)
- To-day my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood: To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous…† (source)
- Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.† (source)
- In shadier bower More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned, Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor Nymph Nor Faunus haunted.† (source)
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