There is always a 'supplanter' -- when the time is ripe. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference
Means "supplanter", and refers to a well-known circumstance of his birth (Gen., xxv, 25). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
He is rightly named James, or Jacob, for he is a base supplanter! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
“I looked it up once—it means ‘supplanter,’ or something like that.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
She might come to see, too, her son's supplanter; and that means danger anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
The supplanter proved as bold as the man he had supplanted -- stern "patriot" as Wilkes had been. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
In January 1536 the deeply-injured Katharine died; to be followed ere many months had passed by her supplanter. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
But the Inchiquin knows well that the true Irish Esau has no worse enemy than his supplanter, the Norman Jacob. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Above all, was Dame Bevan to see that home of her heart's hope, the permanent home of the harsh supplanter of her husband?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Gracious indeed was her welcome to her mother's supplanter, for she loved her father, and this was the wife of his choice. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
L'anonymat finit par supplanter l'identité, avec le cortège de conséquence que cette formule charrie à tous niveaux. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
No longer the supplanter -- but Israel, the prince, the prevailer, the overcomer, and Israel was now a wholly sanctified man. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Holiness] Reference
"You will find this a terrible place, Mr. Meekin," said North to his supplanter, as they walked across to the Commandant's to dinner. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
After a long time of humiliation for them, the supplanter, the insulter, was overtaken, his villainy uncovered to the eyes of the king. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
I am Jacob -- supplanter, sinner, and then He blessed him there; Jabbok means extinguishment, and Jacob's self-life was extinguished there. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Holiness] Reference
You shall see how generous I can be to my supplanter. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamp in the Desert] Reference
Oh, it was hard to give up so much to so unworthy a supplanter!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of the Farrells] Reference
Winter (his supplanter), until he put him to ignominious flight. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas] Reference
Esau could not have raged more against Jacob, the supplanter, than did. From Wordnik.com. [Viviette] Reference
There was neither jealousy nor envy in my feelings toward my supplanter. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
I am become the supplanter of my sister; thou, the husband of both of us. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
The whole current of her wrath turned upon the supplanter, this Lord Dawlish. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Money] Reference
I cannot, though, in honor hold any fief under the supplanter of my liege-lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Certain Hour] Reference
Imagine the feelings of Hiltonbury, when I, his supplanter, begin to tighten the reins. '. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
He begins to persuade his employer that the supplanter and the newly-married wife are lovers. From Wordnik.com. [William Shakespeare] Reference
He was capable of sharp epigrams, and may have exulted in the fall of his unworthy supplanter. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
Plainly, it was time, and time only, which could give any authority to Tom Bolderston's supplanter!. From Wordnik.com. [Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story] Reference
Indeed, modern Hinduism is largely a blending of the Brahmanism of old with its supplanter, Buddhism. From Wordnik.com. [India's Problem, Krishna or Christ] Reference
Need it be said that of all men he most hated his supplanter in the Prince of Wales 'good-will, Sir Robert Volney. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
After his death they joined themselves with Him whom they had once regarded with some suspicion as his rival and supplanter. From Wordnik.com. [John the Baptist] Reference
Unprepared as Clara was for such a declaration, it was to her as if she had been publicly denounced as the supplanter of her brother. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference
He had allied himself to Ali of Argyro-Castron to get rid of his enemies; once free from them, he began to plot against his supplanter. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
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