sequestrate

Example Sentences

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Grimes had hinted to his friend how easy it would be to sequestrate this money without Morrell knowing it.

From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Marlowe, Amy Bell

So it fell out that the von Schwarzenberg's schemes, first to banish and later to sequestrate the American, were set at naught through the agency of Mr. Julian Grant.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth

"To use his influence over Major Dabney to sequestrate, absolutely sequestrate, a full third of our property!"

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

So that her children should not be deprived of their father's fortune, which the nation could sequestrate as the property of an émigré, Mme. de Vaubadon, like many other royalists, had sued for a divorce.

From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]