All 3 Uses
sequester
in
Jane Eyre
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- 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;†
p. 129.2
- What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?†
p. 243.8 *
- They loved their sequestered home.†
p. 402.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(sequester as in: sequester the jury) keep away from others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)