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Meanings of usurp the place in English

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Usage of usurp the place in English
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There is only one thing that can adequately usurp the place of Peace.
This Is the End
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There is a strong tendency, however, for authority to usurp the place of reason.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
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On her countenance, calm devotion seemed to usurp the place of earthly affections, and earthly passions.
A Love Story
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War, because of them, was not permitted to usurp the place of peace-time social and scientific work.
Dogs of war
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Ladies are in danger of losing their privileges when they usurp the place of the other sex.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
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I have work for them to do, and they must never let pleasure usurp the place of labor.
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
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New interests, new lines of work, began to usurp the place which pure morphology had held so long.
Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morph...
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These daily missives grew more and more threatening, and terror began to usurp the place of rage with Moore.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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And all had gone well until the book's inspirer had begun to usurp the place of the book itself.
The Window-Gazer
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He sought to usurp the place of of the sun and the result was a conflict in which the latter was victorious.
The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao / The R. F. Cummings...
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However, a remembrance of my beautiful traveller pervaded my thoughts more and more, and threatened to usurp the place of everything else.
Gerfaut — Volume 2
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No mocking, stale conventionalities can usurp the place of natural laws, and put genius and talent into the accursed strait-jacket of routine!
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
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He allows the beast to usurp the place of the god because for the moment the beast pleases his capricious royal fancy the most.
Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
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There is danger that newspapers in America will too much supersede and usurp the place of books, and lead to a superficial knowledge of things.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
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Convention usurps the place of every principle, and becomes the only god.
Gordon Keith
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Happy when a strange child is usurping the place of my child?
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
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