He usurps upon cheats, quarrels, and robberies, which he never did, only to get him a name.
It is like overreach of language, when every thin tinder-cloaked quack must be called a doctor; when a clumsy cobbler usurps the attribute of our English peers, and is vamped a translator.
Murder of Valentinian II by Arbogast; Eugenius usurpsthe throne in the West.
Then be it as you will; for 'tis my right, And Henry but usurps the diadem.
Your best of friends, your dearest Philocles, Usurps your bed, and makes you a cornute.
John usurpsthe throne of England to the exclusion of Prince Arthur.
It is seldom that lawless violence usurps the place of despotic government.
No craven fear usurps his soul, no task his spirit quails.
It is long since church and island disappeared, and few of those gay Neapolitans who throng the Via Caracciolo, that fine parade which now usurps the whole seafront from horn to horn of the bay, could even point out where it stood.
But already it is dropping astern, and the lower land of Procida usurps its place, an island which in the days of Juvenal was a byword of desolation, though populous and fertile in our own.
Therefore if anyone presume to foreknow or foretell such like future things by any means whatever, except by divine revelation, he manifestly usurps what belongs to God.
Then only is a man said to divine, when he usurps to himself, in an undue manner, the foretelling of future events: and this is manifestly a sin.
If, however, a man takes vengeance outside the order of divine appointment, he usurps what is God's and therefore sins.
Tis like the smile that beams through tears, When hope usurps the place of fears; Like health, new sparkling in the eye Of him, whom friends gave up to die.
Even among those who would seem to have fallen most from the knowledge of God, something about their own characters or circumstances virtually usurps His place.
It usurps the first glance; it partly buries, everywhere throngs, and in the most important place squeezes the subject into a corner.
Death of Henry I of England; Stephen usurpsthe throne.
Love usurps the place of every other passion, and the chisel is cast aside in silence, under that supremacy.
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