Literary notes about sequestered (AI summary)
Writers employ "sequestered" to evoke a sense of isolation and hidden beauty, whether describing a tranquil, remote natural setting or a state of enforced separation from society. It is used to portray secret, almost otherworldly retreats in nature—lush, secluded glens and solitary islands that beckon with quiet mystery, as seen in [1], [2], and [3]—while also conveying the idea of separation imposed by social or political forces, such as when a person is deliberately isolated or removed from their normal environment in [4] and [5]. In both contexts, "sequestered" enriches the imagery and mood of a work, suggesting places or conditions where privacy, solitude, and sometimes melancholy interplay.
- Each valley, each sequestered glen, Mustered its little horde of men That met as torrents from the height
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott - The village was one of those sequestered spots which still retain some vestiges of old English customs.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - We halted in a little sequestered glen, a lovely spot embosomed among trees, on the southern slope of the hill.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant - They are only respectable people here, who, for reasons known to their excellencies alone, have to be sequestered from society.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Marie Antoinette. June 25, 1791, she writes: "It appears to me that the King ought to be sequestered and his wife impeached."
— from Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand
