usurpation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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 of power plays its part, incapacity seconds corruption, the storm rises, and the fragments of the incoherent raft strew the sandy shores, reading to mankind another lesson for it to disregard.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Mr. Smollet pleased Dr. Johnson, by producing a collection of newspapers in the time of the Usurpation, from which it appeared that all sorts of crimes were very frequent during that horrible anarchy.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James

So it was understood, without dispute and without distinction, until the argument of a case in the High Court of Justice, during the Usurpation.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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