All 29 Uses
usurp
in
A Clash of Kings
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- "Must the rightful Lord of the Seven Kingdoms beg for help from widow women and usurpers?" a woman's voice asked sharply.†
p. 17.8
- They are all usurpers, and they are all my enemies.†
p. 26.9
- 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.†
p. 104.7usurp = seize or take control without authority
- 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.†
p. 197.9usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- Any man with a thimble of sense will see it for a clumsy attempt to justify usurping the crown.†
p. 230.2 *usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
- The Usurper will kill you, sure as sunrise.†
p. 427.6usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- The Usurper will kill you, sure as sunrise, Mormont had said.†
p. 428.5
- 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.†
p. 428.7
- The Usurper is dead?†
p. 430.1
- Dany had never looked upon the Usurper's face, yet seldom a day had passed when she had not thought of him.†
p. 430.3
- It pleased her to hear that the Usurper's dogs were fighting amongst themselves, though she was unsurprised.†
p. 430.8
- The Usurper is dead, what does it matter?†
p. 431.6
- ...and a thief and a usurper besides.†
p. 476.2
- The Targaryens called Robert usurper.†
p. 476.2
- You are very free to name others traitor and usurper, my lord, yet how are you any different?†
p. 476.5
- We will send to Winterfell, so Bran may tell his tale and all men may know the Lannisters for the true usurpers.†
p. 501.6
- 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.†
p. 578.1usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- Lord Redwyne had fought for her father against the Usurper, she remembered, one of the few to remain true to the last.†
p. 578.9
- I mean to sail to Westeros, and drink the wine of vengeance from the skull of the Usurper.†
p. 580.1
- 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.†
p. 582.1
- Illyrio protected us from the Usurper's knives, and he believed in my brother's cause.†
p. 585.6
- A misplaced faith in a dead usurper.†
p. 611.4
- But these lords who flocked to my brother's banners knew him for a usurper.†
p. 612.5
- Tell them that any man who thinks to give aid to the usurper betrays the gods as well as his rightful king.†
p. 716.2
- The whole of the usurper's fleet would have passed by the time the first glimmer of metal could be seen beneath the water.†
p. 839.4
- How often had she and Viserys stolen away in the black of night, a bare step ahead of the Usurper's hired knives?†
p. 871.6
- The Usurper offered a lordship to the man who kills me, and these two are far from home.†
p. 879.1
- Robert the Usurper is dead, and the realm bleeds.†
p. 883.9
- They rode through the ashes and took the usurper Stannis in the rear.†
p. 940.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(usurp) seize or take control without authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)