supplanters

Originally solitary ascetics, they clustered into groups, and, if we are to believe their supplanters at St. Andrews, the Canons Regular, they were married men, and used church property for family profit.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Wealth and Covetousnesse, the onely supplanters of all good qualities whatsoever.

The Decameron 2004

In such a case, a more gentle nature than ever endowed a Yordas might have grown hardened and bitter; and Duncan, being of true Yordas fibre (thickened and toughened with slower Scotch sap), was not of the sort to be ousted lightly and grow at the feet of his supplanters.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, bugbears, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a horde of capitalistic lusts upon our prostituted labour.

Ulysses 2003

'Cousin James is not an old curmudgeon,' put in Gwen, stepping back to join in the conversation; 'supplanters and usurpers generally carry all the world before them, "like green bay trees," as the Psalmist says.

The Carved Cupboard Amy le Feuvre

_ The scandals of the monasteries did not justify the robbery of the destitute for the benefit of the secular supplanters of the monks.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

Sadly at first the little band marched away from all their friends and their homes; bagpipes played their loudest marching tunes, and plaids fluttered in the breeze, and the men marched gallantly, but with heavy hearts, for they knew not when they would return, and they feared to find supplanters in their homes when they came back after many years.

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

The ring-streaked, spotted, and speckled among the cattle and goats, and the brown among the sheep, were turned into the supplanters 'folds, which were filled with lowing herds and bleating flocks, while Laban had neither horn nor hoof.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

Another decade may turn the tables, and restore the flag of the old Liverpool liners to their fleeter but less shapely supplanters.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

The children of their successors and supplanters, and then their children and children's children, change and develop with extraordinary rapidity.

IV. Citizenship in a Republic 1913