Potential Titles: Usurp

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Usurped his life at a moment's notice - Duane Ackerson "The Killer's Suicide Note"

Have begun to usurp his identity - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

And Sorrow usurps her control - "Apostrophe to Health" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

And weeds usurp the ground - Anne Bronte "Home"

Usurps the functions of the mind - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

Allow no cloud or passion to usurp - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"

Usurp the calm noon - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

Mocked us from the usurped throne - T.M. Kettle "Dreams and Duty"

The mighty mass of her usurped dominion - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Before usurping Mammon seized the throne - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

The throne Success usurps - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Only the usurper's diadem - John Reade "Kings of Men"

Penelope, who usurps and dishonors nothing - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Usurps the walks of tired duty - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VII"

Usurp the skies with thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Usurp the shadowy interval - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Usurping the mace of the Lord - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Crows have usurped the role of swans - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

we two usurp a throne - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"


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