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  • Phaedrus' mind races on and on and then on further, seeing now at last a kind of evil thing, an evil deeply entrenched in himself, which pretends to try to understand love and beauty and truth and wisdom but whose real purpose is never to understand them, whose real purpose is always to usurp them and enthrone itself.   (source)
    usurp = take control from them
  • It was a five-year diary; in the four years of its existence she had never neglected to make an entry, though the splendor of several events ... and the drama of others ... had caused her to usurp space allotted to the future.   (source)
    usurp = take
  • But Mom took it upon herself to usurp the mommy role,   (source)
    usurp = seize or take control without authority
  • Everyone except your Majesty knows that Miraz is a usurper.   (source)
    usurper = someone who takes without authority
  • usurped by his uncle   (source)
    usurped = seized control without authority
  • She almost apologized to the tenants the first time she collected the rents. Felt like a usurper.   (source)
    usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
  • Thus superstition had usurped the place of religion in the life of our town, and that is why the church in which Peneloux preached his sermon was only three-quarters full.   (source)
    usurped = seized or took control of
  • —an engagement, if engagement it ever was, lasting for a whole year yet ... he, the living man, was usurped, you see.   (source)
    usurped = (of his rights or place) seized or taken by another
  • She led the Viceroy a horrible life with her passion for concessions and her gradual usurpation of privileges.   (source)
    usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
  • Meantime that functionary, resuming his path, must have momentarily worn some expression less guarded than that of the bitter smile, and usurping the face from the heart, some distorting expression perhaps; for a drummer-boy heedlessly frolicking along from the opposite direction and chancing to come into light collision with his person was strangely disconcerted by his aspect.   (source)
    usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
  • For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, and it was because of his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.   (source)
    usurp = seize or take control
  • The ghosts were returning; they filled Italy, they were even usurping the places she had known as a child.   (source)
    usurping = seizing or taking control of
  • This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life.   (source)
    usurp = seize or take control without authority
  • William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.   (source)
    usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
  • The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations...   (source)
  • The causes of the difficulties in seizing the kingdom of the Turk are that the usurper cannot be called in by the princes of the kingdom,   (source)
    usurper = one who seizes control
  • Father knew that too, although he was far from pleased: Laura had jumped the gun and usurped his own position as host, and next thing he knew she'd be inviting every orphan and bum and hard-luck case to his dinner table as if he was Good King Wenceslas.†   (source)
  • And she did feel inhabited, taken over, usurped by something blind and ferocious.†   (source)
  • Eating my stores and usurping my place.†   (source)
  • The gods of Hinduism face their fair share of thieves, bullies, kidnappers and usurpers.†   (source)
  • Ty may not have known that Jess was moving closer, was, in some sense usurping Daddy's place.†   (source)
  • "Spell usurped," I told her.†   (source)
  • Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved.†   (source)
  • He tried to usurp her!†   (source)
  • Though Platt, luckily, was off terrorizing younger children at Groton, still Kitsey and the youngest brother, Toddy, who was only seven, clearly resented having me around to usurp what minor attention they got from their parents.†   (source)
  • Less strictly speaking, high school football players were far more highly prized, in part because colleges could usurp a great deal of their (skyrocketing) market value.†   (source)
  • But we have to subdue the anger and squash the ideas of usurping power quickly, before they unite and undo our great nation.†   (source)
  • If the usurper threatened to kill Katrina, Roran would have no choice but to submit to his demands.†   (source)
  • After listening to their presentation, I advised them to throw their support to Sabata against Matanzima, who was illegally and shamefully usurping power from the king.†   (source)
  • And now they've turned against him by threatening to usurp his dynasty.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio continued to profit from the usurped lands, the title to which was recognized by the Conservative government.†   (source)
  • When a usurper stole the stone and soon thereafter died, it was understood that the power of the stone was lost unless it was given to the bearer, and so a tradition grew up that allowed the throne of Eddis to change hands peacefully when another country might have had a civil war.†   (source)
  • As I mount the small stage, I can hear the rustle of programs, the insect buzzing of whispers mixing with the sighs of the disappointed whose chance to contact the dead is gone, usurped by a red-haired girl whose green eyes are wild with hope.†   (source)
  • Tom's words laid bare the hearts of trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers.†   (source)
  • "Do you think the Parliament would spend decades locked in debate, or even entertain the notion of a usurper taking the throne, if I didn't have a legitimate claim?†   (source)
  • What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.†   (source)
  • One night Matron took Ghosh aside and said: "Your limericks are usurping my prayers."†   (source)
  • One man drew him out; one man tricked him, usurped his kills, taking credit for the Jackal's work, kill after kill, driving Carlos mad when he was trying to correct the record, trying to maintain his supremacy as the ultimate assassin.†   (source)
  • IYALOJA No child, it is what you brought to be, you who play with strangers' lives, who even usurp the vestments of our dead, yet believe that the stain of death will not cling to you.†   (source)
  • All three usurpers had lost and been exiled to the desert.†   (source)
  • You have steadily usurped command, sir.†   (source)
  • If he's a fool, he'll rely upon them too much and too often, and they'll usurp his power until, should he be lucky, they'll squander it in fighting among themselves.†   (source)
  • I certainly love to live to kill the base usurping vandals. if it is a sin to hate them; then I am guilty of the unpardonable one.†   (source)
  • Once it has happened, however, it's difficult to get the people to effectually resist usurpations.†   (source)
  • During the next several days I was extremely busy unpacking my equipment and setting up my field laboratory — being obliged to usurp most of the limited space in the tiny cabin in the process.†   (source)
  • Evil Duke Angelo, meanwhile, is scheming to amalgamate the duchies of Squamuglia and Faggio, by marrying off the only royal female available, his sister Francesca, to Pasquale the Faggian usurper.†   (source)
  • In his heart there was a sudden yearning tenderness for holy Elisha; desire, sharp and awful as a reflecting knife, to usurp the body of Elisha, and lie where Elisha lay; to speak in tongues, as Elisha spoke, and, with that authority, to confound his father.†   (source)
  • …his address to crowded meetings with "My friends—and in that term I comprehend those who come to hear the truth and to believe it—none others," he attacked the resolutions as "false in their facts, incendiary in their temper, disunion in their object, high treason in their remedy, and usurpation in their character…… Thewhole concept, concoction and passage of the resolutions were perfected by fraud …. a plot to get me out of the Senate and out of the way of the disunion plotters."†   (source)
  • "Tom" was a bad baby, from the very beginning of his usurpation.   (source)
    usurpation = act of seizing or taking control without authority
  • ...a certain impatience of the duties of a mere copyist, an unwarrantable usurpation of strictly professional affairs, such as the original drawing up of legal documents.   (source)
    usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
  • But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.†   (source)
  • "What if there's a girl out there who could usurp Levana?†   (source)
  • Of knowing that you usurped me and then shot me in the head.†   (source)
  • A man named Leukos is king, who usurped from Idomeneus, who was her grandchild.†   (source)
  • That is why we are taking over the forges of the usurper Hephaestus.†   (source)
  • "I'm not giving up my crown over usurped.†   (source)
  • It would not do to make him feel as if his mother were usurping his place.†   (source)
  • No doubt the Usurper would pay well for your head.†   (source)
  • Tyrell, Redwyne, Darry, Greyjoy, they have no more love for the Usurper than I do.†   (source)
  • The Usurper's hired knives were close behind them, he insisted, though Dany had never seen one.†   (source)
  • "Woe to the Usurper if we had been," said Ser Oswell.†   (source)
  • There are still those in the Seven Kingdoms who call me Usurper.†   (source)
  • "A name to make the Usurper's blood run cold."†   (source)
  • They had run again, just before the Usurper's brother set sail with his new-built fleet.†   (source)
  • "The Usurper wanted his head," Illyrio told them.†   (source)
  • Join forces with us, and we may yet free ourselves of the usurper who now sits in Uru'baen.†   (source)
  • Which gives the Erudite and the Allegiant a common goal: to usurp Evelyn.†   (source)
  • Any man with a thimble of sense will see it for a clumsy attempt to justify usurping the crown.†   (source)
  • The Usurper took them down and hid them away.†   (source)
  • Would National Government Usurp State Authority?†   (source)
  • I wanted you to understand that, and that I've no desire to usurp the Varden's leadership.†   (source)
  • At the end they had the usurper hidden in a brothel.†   (source)
  • The Usurper called him that, the Usurper and his dogs.†   (source)
  • The Usurper will kill you, sure as sunrise, Mormont had said.†   (source)
  • They stole your scenario, usurped your strategy.†   (source)
  • But indeed there was no need to egg the usurper on.†   (source)
  • The Usurper on his Iron Throne had offered land and lordship to any man who killed her.†   (source)
  • The Usurper offered a lordship to the man who kills me, and these two are far from home.†   (source)
  • Sunspear stayed loyal to my father when the Usurper stole his throne.†   (source)
  • Therefore, federal politicians probably would not usurp these powers.†   (source)
  • Robert the Usurper is dead, and the realm bleeds.†   (source)
  • However, men who want to usurp power could use it to claim that power.†   (source)
  • Are you the Usurper's man, or mine" "Yours, if you will have me."†   (source)
  • Their father, her brother Rhaegar, perish6d even earlier, slain by the Usurper on the Trident.†   (source)
  • Military force is the only other way that the federal government could usurp State power.†   (source)
  • "Viserys said this talk of madness was a ploy of the Usurper's …"†   (source)
  • The Usurper is dead, what does it matter?†   (source)
  • It was the Young Usurper who dismissed you from the Kingsguard .†   (source)
  • The Usurper will kill you, sure as sunrise.†   (source)
  • We were kings and the Blackwoods were our vassals, but they betrayed us and usurped the crown.†   (source)
  • "The usurper," he declared, louder this time.†   (source)
  • Number 31: Federal Won't Usurp State Powers†   (source)
  • But these lords who flocked to my brother's banners knew him for a usurper.†   (source)
  • Legislative usurpations lead to the same tyranny as executive usurpations.†   (source)
  • For a heartbeat she felt almost sorry for the Usurper.†   (source)
  • Self-defense against national usurpations will be more successful than against rulers of a State.†   (source)
  • To end the Usurper's line for good and all, and put Rhaegar's son upon the Iron Throne.†   (source)
  • You are very free to name others traitor and usurper, my lord, yet how are you any different?†   (source)
  • It would also be protection against usurpation by the ambitious national rulers.†   (source)
  • "Illyrio protected us from the Usurper's knives, and he believed in my brother's cause."†   (source)
  • Viserys used to call them the Usurper's dogs.†   (source)
  • If we start worrying about usurpations by the federal government, we fall into a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • No, Dany thought, and the Usurper's dogs will learn that, when I return to Westeros.†   (source)
  • They rode through the ashes and took the usurper Stannis in the rear.†   (source)
  • Tell me how you escaped from the Usurper.†   (source)
  • I mean to sail to Westeros, and drink the wine of vengeance from the skull of the Usurper.†   (source)
  • Virginia was the first colony to resist the parliamentary usurpations of Great Britain.†   (source)
  • Legislative usurpations might be so outrageous and rapid that there is no time for a specious spin.†   (source)
  • To block usurpations, the government is divided into separate branches.†   (source)
  • Second bad effect: The man would be tempted to evil thoughts, embezzlement, and usurpation.†   (source)
  • It would be a usurpation of power not granted by the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Usurpation cannot be hidden by pretenses; the people and their representatives will see them.†   (source)
  • It is continually exposed to the dangers of dissolution or usurpation.†   (source)
  • This proposal doesn't address the problem of two branches usurping the authority of the third.†   (source)
  • These will be acts of usurpation and deserve to be treated as such.†   (source)
  • Two separate bodies will have to agree to schemes of usurpation or perfidy.†   (source)
  • The usurpation may stop at a healthy point or go forward to a dangerous extreme.†   (source)
  • People could immediately see and stop usurpation attempts by the executive or judiciary.†   (source)
  • But in his attempt to unite the Good and the True by making the Good the highest Idea of all, Plato is nevertheless usurping areté's place with dialectically determined truth.†   (source)
  • I'VE USURPED YOU!"†   (source)
  • Dialectic…the usurper.†   (source)
  • "We want to usurp Erudite," she says.†   (source)
  • The sack of King's Landing by the ones Viserys called the Usurper's dogs, the lords Lannister and Stark.†   (source)
  • Dany remembered the story Viscrys had told her, of what the Usurper's dogs had done to Rhaegar's children.†   (source)
  • The Usurper has woken the dragon now, she told herself …. and her eyes went to the dragon's eggs resting in their nest of dark velvet.†   (source)
  • "I shall kill the Usurper myself," he promised, who had never killed anyone, "as he killed my brother Rhaegar.†   (source)
  • The Usurper sits on my father's throne.†   (source)
  • Caravan guards were seldom troubled much by thoughts of honor, and the Usurper in King's Landing would pay well for her brother's head.†   (source)
  • It went against everything that Viserys had ever told her to think that the people could care so little whether a true king or a usurper reigned over them.†   (source)
  • The Usurper owes Drogo a lordship.†   (source)
  • Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King's Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother's womb.†   (source)
  • The garrison had been prepared to sell them to the Usurper, but one night Ser Willem Darry and four loyal men had broken into the nursery and stolen them both, along with her wet nurse, and set sail under cover of darkness for the safety of the Braavosian coast.†   (source)
  • At first the magisters and archons and merchant princes were pleased to welcome the last Targaryens to their homes and tables, but as the years passed and the Usurper continued to sit upon the Iron Throne, doors closed and their lives grew meaner.†   (source)
  • In the songs, the white knights of the Kingsguard were ever noble, valiant, and true, and yet King Aerys had been murdered by one of them, the handsome boy they now called the Kingslayer, and a second, Ser Barristan the Bold, had gone over to the Usurper.†   (source)
  • Was it the Usurper?†   (source)
  • The Usurper would agree.†   (source)
  • With our help, Palancar was usurped and banished, but he, his family, and their vassals refused to leave the valley.†   (source)
  • There would have been a sixth, but the Usurper's dogs had murdered her brother's son when he was still a babe at the breast.†   (source)
  • He simply offered to set up a registry office so that Jose Arcadio could legalize his title to the usurped land, under the condition that he delegate to the local government the right to collect the contributions.†   (source)
  • He had escaped only because a feral pig that had been feeding on the dead had been startled by the firing and had run through no-man's-land, usurping the Austrian aim while he himself dragged the dead body of his friend through the muddy depressions.†   (source)
  • Never was there a city like it before, and never shall there be again, for now it is lost, destroyed—ground to dust by the usurper Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • You are quite right, Trianna-you have done well with Du Vrangr Gata, and I'm not here to usurp your authority.†   (source)
  • He based his right on the fact that the usurped lands had been distributed by Jose Arcadio Buendia at the time of the founding, and he thought it possible to prove that his father had been crazy ever since that time, for he had disposed of a patrimony that really belonged to the family.†   (source)
  • …from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed of her husband, she had found peace in that house where memories materialized through the strength of implacable evocation and walked like human beings through the cloistered rooms, Leaning back in her wicker rocking chair, looking at Colonel Aureliano Buendia as if he were the one who looked like a ghost out of the past, Rebeca was not even upset by the news that the lands usurped by Jose Arcadio would be returned to their rightful owners.†   (source)
  • Then, long after we had resigned ourselves to our fate, Brom and Jeod rescued Saphira's egg, and once again a chance existed to defeat the foul usurper.†   (source)
  • All leaders were aware of the risk of usurpation, but usurpers themselves were doubly afraid of the threat that a single determined individual could pose.†   (source)
  • She was daughter to one king and mother to two more, yet she died a traitor's death for trying to usurp her brother's crown.†   (source)
  • "From his throne of bones the Lord of Death looked down on the murdered lord," Hamish began, and went on to tell how Renly, repenting his attempt to usurp his nephew's crown, had defied the Lord of Death himself and crossed back to the land of the living to defend the realm against his brother.†   (source)
  • Khaleesi, before you kneels Ser Barristan Selmy, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, who betrayed your House to serve the Usurper Robert Baratheon.†   (source)
  • His blood swirled downriver with the rubies from his breastplate, and Robert the Usurper rode over his corpse to steal the Iron Throne.†   (source)
  • Those same high lords who abandoned my father to the Kingslayer and bent the knee to Robert the Usurper?†   (source)
  • The new king summoned all his sons to court and would have made Aemon part of his councils, but he refused, saying that would usurp the place rightly belonging to the Grand Maester.†   (source)
  • In return for Dome's help overthrowing the Usurper, my brother Viserys is to take Prince Doran's daughter Arianne for his queen."†   (source)
  • What will you do if brave Ser Donnel gives his sword to yet another usurper, and one day comes storming into the throne room?†   (source)
  • Ser Willem Darry signed for us, the man who spirited my brother and myself away from Dragonstone before the Usurper's men could take us.†   (source)
  • Tell them that any man who thinks to give aid to the usurper betrays the gods as well as his rightful king.†   (source)
  • Her brother's son would have been the sixth, but the Usurper's men had dashed his head against a wall.†   (source)
  • A misplaced faith in a dead usurper.†   (source)
  • "The usurper," he said at last.†   (source)
  • Their wooden armor had been freshly painted, so one bore the stag of the usurper Robert Baratheon, the other the golden lion of House Lannister.†   (source)
  • Half the lords in the realm could not tell taxation from tyranny, and would bolt to the nearest usurper in a heartbeat if it would save them a clipped copper.†   (source)
  • It pleased her to hear that the Usurper's dogs were fighting amongst themselves, though she was unsurprised.†   (source)
  • When she saw the Usurper's rebel host across the river they were armored all in ice, but she bathed them in dragonfire and they melted away like dew and turned the Trident into a torrent.†   (source)
  • The whole of the usurper's fleet would have passed by the time the first glimmer of metal could be seen beneath the water.†   (source)
  • "The boy on the Iron Throne is a usurper," he said, "and I am no traitor, but the Hand of Stannis Baratheon, the First of His Name, the trueborn King of Westeros."†   (source)
  • She wondered if Prince Rhaegar had been this anxious when he saw the Usurper's host formed up across the Trident with all their banners floating on the wind.†   (source)
  • You protected my father for many years, fought beside my brother on the Trident, but you abandoned Viserys in his exile and bent your knee to the Usurper instead.†   (source)
  • How often had she and Viserys stolen away in the black of night, a bare step ahead of the Usurper's hired knives?†   (source)
  • "Gerrick is the true and rightful king of the wildlings," the queen said, "descended in an unbroken male line from their great king Raymun Redbeard, whereas the usurper Mance Rayder was born of some common woman and fathered by one of your black brothers."†   (source)
  • The narrow sea was often stormy, and Dany had crossed it half a hundred times as a girl, running from one Free City to the next half a step ahead of the Usurper's hired knives.†   (source)
  • …. and a thief and a usurper besides.†   (source)
  • Dany had never looked upon the Usurper's face, yet seldom a day had passed when she had not thought of him.†   (source)
  • "The Usurper is dead," she said.†   (source)
  • Lord Redwyne had fought for her father against the Usurper, she remembered, one of the few to remain true to the last.†   (source)
  • What did the Usurper promise you?†   (source)
  • What of the Usurper?†   (source)
  • The Targaryens called Robert usurper.†   (source)
  • The Usurper's dogs.†   (source)
  • She had seen cutpurses aplenty in the streets of the Free Cities, during the years she'd spent with her brother, running from the Usurper's hired knives.†   (source)
  • He served the Usurper.†   (source)
  • All those years of running from city to city one step ahead of the Usurper's knives, pleading for help from archons and princes and magisters, buying our food with flattery.†   (source)
  • Sometimes this argument seems based on the assumption that the national government will usurp State powers.†   (source)
  • "The usurper," he said.†   (source)
  • Judges will not want to usurp the legislature's authority while the legislature has the power to punish them and remove them from office.†   (source)
  • I had no lack of marriage offers, but before I could reach a decision Lord Balon Greyjoy rose in rebellion against the Usurper, and Ned Stark called his banners to help his friend Robert.†   (source)
  • Then it dissolves either from a lack of power or government officials usurp the powers necessary for the public safety.†   (source)
  • And with him stood the great lords her brother had named the Usurper's dogs, cold-eyed Eddard Stark with his frozen heart, and the golden Lannisters, father and son, so rich, so powerful, so treacherous.†   (source)
  • The Decemvirs of Rome, whose name denotes their number,' could more easily usurp power than any ONE of them, alone.†   (source)
  • The Usurper is dead?†   (source)
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