"Sequestrator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... royal property he has been robbed of!—Why, wench, if I must beg, think'st thou I will sue to those who have made me a mendicant? No. I will never show my grey beard, worn in sorrow for my sovereign's death, to move the compassion of some proud sequestrator, who perhaps was one of the parricides. No. If Henry Lee must sue for food, it shall be of some sound loyalist like himself, who, having but half a loaf remaining, will not nevertheless refuse to share it with him. ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott
... a Country Committee-Man, with the Earmark of a Sequestrator The Character of a Diurnal-Maker The Character ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various
... lay waste, in India. Now, Sir, the House will be desirous to know for what purpose this picture was drawn. It was for a purpose, I will not say laudable, but necessary: that of taking the unfortunate prince and his country out of the hands of a sequestrator sent thither by the Nabob of Oude, the mortal enemy of the prince thus ruined, and to protect him by means of a British resident, who might carry his complaints to the superior resident at Oude, or transmit them to Calcutta. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
