usurpation

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He even borrowed seven lines of her story "Usurpation" for his novella "Westward the Course of Empire."

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2012

Usurpation, tendency to, in the Federal Government, 176;   last effort to stay the tide of, 247;   set on foot by Virginia, 247;   an effort for adjustment, 247;   the Peace Congress, 248.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson

Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?—In a pamphlet entitled Arbitrary Government displayed to the Life, in the illegal Transactions of the late Times under the tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell, ed.

From Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Usurpation is a crime to which men are tempted by human dirigibility.

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The Indictment is divided into three grand divisions, Usurpation, Abdication, and War, and the separate counts are stated, clearly containing but one subject.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel