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keep away from others- And the Countess nodded at the sequestered couple.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- We awaited the verdict in the small anteroom across the hall where witnesses were sequestered before being called in to testify.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- They've left the premises and are sequestered at the airport.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- He would then scour the air, looking for happy dreams to replace the ones he had sequestered away.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- A single man, more or less young and not ill-favoured, appears to one who has long been sequestered, and deprived of masculine company.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- And, sequestered in his dark, lonely cell, Daddy is sobbing.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- Eragon quickly sequestered his mind from the touch of the other.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- I leave them and sequester myself in my room to examine Wilhelmina Wyatt's slate.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- And Neleus for a year's term sequestered Melampous' fields and flocks, while he lay bound hand and foot in the keep of Phylakos.Homer -- The Odyssey
- Cleaver is the only employee who knows about the hoard of Unwinds sequestered in the far reaches of the lot.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- 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.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- We ate the meat all right and were glad to have it, but the trinkets she sequestered in her bedroom, out of sight.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- 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.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- And the Countess nodded at the sequestered couple.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- If we can't solve it this way, then we'll sequester your family and do as we like from then on.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- The legendary Strategic Air Command has squadrons of B-47 and B-52 bombers ready to launch, the pilots sequestered in secure "Alert" facilities.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- In shadier bower More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned, Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor Nymph Nor Faunus haunted.John Milton -- Paradise Lost
- And Chelise would live there too, beside the library where she would sequester herself and write into the night.Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
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