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But the really fatal effect of such a defeat would have been that it would no longer have been necessary for the British to sequestrate a hundred or more destroyers at Scapa Flow.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

Any scheme to sequestrate, to hide it under a bushel, or to put it under lock and key, is a shallow device.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)

After the close of the American war, I had, for various reasons of a private nature, a wish to sequestrate myself for a time, from any very ostensible part in public affairs. 

From The Provost by Galt, John

It is now proposed not only to forbid all teaching by these orders, but also to sequestrate the property of such congregations as exist solely for teaching purposes.

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi

Not sequestrate the income of a man who has been proved to be a thief!

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

Looking back, Khodorkovsky thinks his mistake was to acknowledge that Yukos could be sequestrated from him, but he did not anticipate its destruction.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025

The bill and the subsequent legal costs saw the debt soar to a reported £30,000 and in 2000 Mrs Van Overwaele was sequestrated - the Scottish legal term for being made legally bankrupt.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022

The proposed jurors were interviewed anonymously, and those selected will remain so – and sequestrated for the duration of the trial, expected to last several months.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2018

This my father detected at once, and sequestrated you to his own use accordingly.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

From many of the windows the sequestrated sick looked out upon the procession, and mingled their prayers with those of the people as they passed.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

The grant will help fund the conservation and breeding of tropical forage grasses with deep roots for sequestrating carbon in soil.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022

There is ground for seizure, the Article adds, and for sequestrating a work, if the printer does not produce the receipts of the deposit ordered by the preceding Article.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William

Cromwell’s visitors were out over England examining into the condition of the religious houses, exposing their abuses and sequestrating their estates.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

"We have no excuse for sequestrating the estates," replied Ireton.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

These later years seem to have been the hey-day of the Loyalists in most of the Colonies, although the Patriots passed severe laws against them, sequestrating their property and even banishing them.

From George Washington by Thayer, William Roscoe