There is only one thing that can adequately usurp the place of Peace.

There is a strong tendency, however, for authority to usurp the place of reason.

On her countenance, calm devotion seemed to usurp the place of earthly affections, and earthly passions.

War, because of them, was not permitted to usurp the place of peace-time social and scientific work.

Ladies are in danger of losing their privileges when they usurp the place of the other sex.

I have work for them to do, and they must never let pleasure usurp the place of labor.

New interests, new lines of work, began to usurp the place which pure morphology had held so long.

These daily missives grew more and more threatening, and terror began to usurp the place of rage with Moore.

And all had gone well until the book's inspirer had begun to usurp the place of the book itself.

He sought to usurp the place of of the sun and the result was a conflict in which the latter was victorious.

However, a remembrance of my beautiful traveller pervaded my thoughts more and more, and threatened to usurp the place of everything else.

No mocking, stale conventionalities can usurp the place of natural laws, and put genius and talent into the accursed strait-jacket of routine!

He allows the beast to usurp the place of the god because for the moment the beast pleases his capricious royal fancy the most.

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.

Convention usurps the place of every principle, and becomes the only god.

Happy when a strange child is usurping the place of my child?