( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As their walk, which was not above two miles long, lay through shadylanes and sequestered footpaths, and as their conversation turned uponthe delightful scenery by which they were on every side surrounded, Mr.Pickwick was almost inclined to regret the expedition they had used,when he found himself in the main street of the town of Muggleton.
Takingbut little interest in public affairs, they beguiled their time chieflywith such amusements as the Peacock afforded, which were limited to abagatelle-board in the first floor, and a sequestered skittle-groundin the back yard.
He shall not do it again, if I canhelp it; I'll expose him! Sam! Where's my servant?Here you are, Sir,' said Mr. Weller, emerging from a sequestered spot,where he had been engaged in discussing a bottle of Madeira, which hehad abstracted from the breakfast-table an hour or two before.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession,where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, andnumerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture andtorment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolumentof the practitioners of the law.
To this theyvery readily agreed, and the proposition was accordingly acted upon;Mr. Ben Allen and Mr. Bob Sawyer betaking themselves to a sequesteredpot-shop on the remotest confines of the Borough, behind the bar door ofwhich their names had in other days very often appeared at the head oflong and complex calculations worked in white chalk.