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sequester as in:  sequester the jury

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  • He would then scour the air, looking for happy dreams to replace the ones he had sequestered away.†  (source)
  • Cleaver is the only employee who knows about the hoard of Unwinds sequestered in the far reaches of the lot.†  (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)
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  • 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)
  • The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We ate the meat all right and were glad to have it, but the trinkets she sequestered in her bedroom, out of sight.†  (source)
  • I leave them and sequester myself in my room to examine Wilhelmina Wyatt's slate.†  (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 chase: and thus the hairy fool, Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook, Augmenting it with tears.†  (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)
  • 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)
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