Ikram, the modern succedaneum for an extensive and regularly paid revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

“Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The observers can demonstrate that they are real observers and not a succedaneum like the Carter Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [11/27/2005 - 12/04/2005] Reference

However, his expense for medicines was not great; for he was the most expert man at a succedaneum of any apothecary in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference

It is scarcely necessary to premise that no such thing as a succedaneum for opium is comprehended in the list of these agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

'Yes,' he said, 'the pompion is a good vegetable, and an excellent succedaneum to the cabbage, in the latter part of the winter.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

Mr. Rerechild, the Barchester doctor whom she employed; and then the young mother mentioned some shockingly modern succedaneum which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barchester Towers] Reference

The communication is by a stone-work passage, the temperature of which is a refreshing succedaneum to that of the conservatories, or 72°.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832] Reference

But as I have no pretensions to ground even a hope upon, of being a succedaneum to such a man -- the argument was decisive and I could say nothing to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

But I wanted a pen, and for this there was no succedaneum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

It is very certain, that speculation is no succedaneum for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

In lieu of me, you will have a charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

Give us rather any succedaneum that will move us, will delight us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VI. Book V] Reference

Call it at least, of Paper; which in many ways is the succedaneum of Gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

The infant had caput succedaneum and extensive cranial molding on delivery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archives of Pediatrics current issue] Reference

It is, he says, the succedaneum to purify the unwholesome exhalations of the canals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference

His moral lectures and advice to me formed a most important succedaneum to those imparted by my parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference

The two houses are going to settle some intermediate succedaneum; and the obvious one, no doubt, will be fixed on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

& I, have a pretty good succedaneum in some strong beer. of which I will lay in another stock against your arrival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 93] Reference

The comb is unknown, its succedaneum being a huge bodkin, like that which the Trasteverina has so often used as a stiletto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference

Those 'hired flys,' so many per week, which were my lazy/succedaneum/, had to be almost forced upon her, and needed argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

A man in whom there's no latent savagery were equivalent to mint julep in which buttermilk were used as a succedaneum for bourbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

A son of his own being therefore past hope, Mr. Elford imagined he might perhaps find consolation in the succedaneum of a grandson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

I, for the first time in my life I perceive why Conservatives are so stupidly stubborn; stubbornness, it seems, is a succedaneum for.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

If peace and quietness be not in one's own power, one can always give oneself at least bodily fatigue - no such bad succedaneum after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

It was to be a 'succedaneum' to Pitt's proposal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference

It is certain that speculation is no succedaneum for life. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerson and Other Essays] Reference

A succedaneum, however, in the love of titles and of what are called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 07] Reference

A medicine, that the physicians of our day have in many cases abandoned its use, and in others adopted some less dangerous succedaneum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference