Sentence example with the word 'usurped'

usurped

Last update: October 14, 2015


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Turgeis himself is reported to have usurped the abbacy of Armagh.   [Please select]

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The Magi have usurped the throne of the Achaemenidae.   [Please select]

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Then Phineas spoke loudly, boldly, and with a voice full of the rapturous fanaticism which drowned conscience and usurped in him religion's place.   [Please select]

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Nine hundred and ninety-nine parts of this land is the legitimate property of the possessors; only one-thousandth of the value has been usurped.   [Please select]

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Almost from the beginning he usurped an ascendancy over the little household.   [Please select]

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Edward Fowler held Arthur in fetters and usurped authority over him as his lord and master.   [Please select]

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He had slowly but surely withdrawn into himself, turning with a pathetic eagerness to the interests that had previously usurped his thoughts.   [Please select]

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The castles, built during the disastrous civil wars of Stephen's usurped reign, were demolished.   [Please select]

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The physiognomy has usurped the place of the physique, the gesture of the form, the pose of the substance.   [Please select]

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I usurped dictatorship just in time to keep the pillows and mattresses from following.   [Please select]

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False gods, whatever degree of godhead they usurped, had for a time the mystifying power of concealing their falsehood.   [Please select]

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