Oh, how often did she wish, in her heart of hearts, that they had never usurped Trevlyn Hold!
Had you been deposed from Trevlyn Hold at the time you usurped it, or had you not usurped it, your children must have been brought up to play their parts in the busy walks of life; to earn their own living.
Did you suppose that Eye was turned away when you usurped Trevlyn Hold to the prejudice of Rupert?
A time will come when they will be in a position to assert their rights, and then it will be seen that the dominions of a king of France cannot be usurped with impunity.
The Atlantic coast, as far as Florida, was usurped from the French, to whom it belonged then, and to whom it belongs now.
In consequence of this state of things, ambitious men in different parts of the empire aspired to independent authority, and usurped jurisdiction to which they had no title.
Some years after Alexander had died an ambitious admiral named Romanus Lecapenus usurped the same position, declared himself emperor, and administered the realm.
Having usurped the throne by the basest treachery towards his infant sovereign, he always feared for himself a similar fate.
When hostilities had terminated, and the Roundheads were masters of England, six sevenths of the members of the foundation refused to make any submission to usurped authority.
Henry and Elizabeth hadusurped a dominion which rightfully belonged to the Holy See.
When Charnock summoned the Demies to perform their academical exercises before him, they answered that they were deprived of their lawful governors and would submit to no usurped authority.
They were convinced that he had usurped a prerogative which did not by law belong to him.
Five minutes afterwards the golden haze had usurped even the still unrippled pool and the cleft in the rock, while the four young men on the downward path were lost to view utterly.
In fact, her own infirmities grew upon her, and pain usurped her thoughts.
Maltravers, indeed, in the habit of conquering, as well as of concealing emotion, vigorously and earnestly strove to dethrone the image that had usurped his heart.
A usurper claiming a neighbor’s crown by virtue of the usurped title of an overturned and disinherited dynasty; as if one stealing a crown got all the reversions of that crown by right.
And this was the main object of Henry after all: to divert the kingdom’s attention from his own usurped title by a foreign war; to fortify usurpation at home by attempted usurpation abroad.
What remained of the Maurya throne was usurpedin 184 B.
This much is certain, that he concluded by announcing his determination to lead on his troops in person, and rout these costard-monger Swedes from their usurped quarters at Fort Casimir.
We command all the electors of Germany to inform us on what pretext they have usurped the inalienable right of the Roman people--the ancient and legitimate sovereign of the empire.
Large districts of country had gone to waste, and cane-brakes and squalid morasses usurped the place of yellow harvest-fields.
His reply was in the negative but he got no further; the mask again usurped the conversation.
Every circle had its special corner; the colonists of Lill-Jans had usurped the inner chess room, usually called the Red Room on account of its red furniture and for the sake of brevity.
Honours to those who have usurped the power, and influence to the most unscrupulous.
There is left but one sphere of human activity which is not usurped by the governmental power,--the domestic, economic sphere, the sphere of the private life and of labour.
This means has been employed since remote antiquity, especially by those men who usurped the power, and men for a long time did not see the irrationality of this means.
In oppressing the nation, therefore, Pharaoh usurped what belonged to the Lord.
Kuda therefore "usurped the government and went to Simway, carrying with him the effects of the deceased sultan.
Here first have we found in colonial history any statement that an intelligence speaking through a borrowed or usurped form disclosed who he was.
The manifestation of supernal knowledge, force, and purposes through a borrowed or usurped mortal form; or the giving utterance to knowledge sensed in through one's spiritual organs of sense.
In the meantime, usurped royalty was playing out its part bravely at Vaux.
The latter had usurped nothing, had cast no shades athwart his life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usurped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
