usurp
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The builder's plank, the mason's hod, Wide and more wide extending still, Usurp the violated sod.
From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry
For grave eyes, mirrored in the brook, Usurp the urchin's laughing look!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various
It is not to be borne; are not you our Master's substitute? then why should he Usurp a privilege without your leave To preach unto the people a doctrine They ought not hear?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
This is not fair your Subjects to betray To those that strive to Rival you in sway; That will in time by your expence of wit, Usurp or’e us, and your successors sit.
From The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Thorp, Willard
Usurp, ū-zurp′, v.t. to take possession of by force without right.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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