usurp

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—How chang'd, alas!—Now ghastly desolation, In triumph, sits upon our shatter'd spires; Now superstition, ignorance, and errour, Usurp our temples, and profane our altars.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

To suffer no proud transgressor to spoil One right of our homes, or one foot of our soil, One privilege pluck from our keeping, or dare Usurp one blessing 'tis fit that we share!

From War Poetry of the South by Various

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

Win, for a Trojan head to wear the prize, Usurp thy crown, enjoy thy victories?

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Can I not, smiling, in his love-sick sense, Usurp the homage due to beings divine?

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles