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Meanings of occupy the place in English

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Usage of occupy the place in English
1
He, accordingly, telegraphed his superiors for permission to occupy the place.
On the Trail of Grant and Lee
2
But what can he do, when you already occupy the place?
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
3
Nobody seemed to occupy the place but himself and Lamoine.
Revenge!
4
The Master said, 'There is Yung!-He might occupy the place of a prince.'
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
5
Austria wishes to occupy the place which Prussia now enjoys as the ally of Russia.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
6
You are welcome to occupy the place during my absence in any way you wish.
The Vanished Messenger
7
No one, he said, would ever occupy the place in his heart that she held.
The Face and the Mask
8
Homesteads and cottages occupy the place of waste lands.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
9
Philosophy endeavoured to occupy the place left vacant by the gradual decay of the national religion.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
10
Stories occupy the place of books, and tales of the marvellous furnish a substitute for the evening papers.
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and...
11
He seemed a great deal older than he was; thirty-seven is young to occupy the place he held.
Richard Vandermarck: A Novel
12
Because the dishonest do occupy the place of the honest, and the worst sort the room of the good.
The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher / Containing his C...
13
If my father were alive, I thought, he would occupy the place of the guest: a moralist accused of betrayal.
The informers
14
Tagals were brought over to occupy the place of the fast-disappearing natives, and with these many of the natives intermarried.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
15
But, then, why does his wife, who died afterwards, take precedence of him and occupy the place next his bust?
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
16
And this is how Rosamond came to occupy the place of the little girl whom she had envied in the picture.
A Double Story
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