"Displace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... looking to that result, which was largely discussed, much opposition being manifested. It was urged by many that women were unfit to serve in a position demanding so much business capacity, that they would displace capable men, and that it was improper for them to assume so public a duty. Charles Lowe, James F. Clarke, John T. Sargent, and others strongly championed the proposition, with the result that Miss Lucretia Crocker was elected a member ...
— Unitarianism in America • George Willis Cooke
... burden sank on his breast. Wolsey bound together the living and the dead, and with a swing of his powerful arms he flung them on his horse's back, securing them there with so many turns of rope that nothing could displace them. Now he began to lash his horse until the poor beast trembled with anger and pain, when, flinging off the halter, he gave it a final lash, and the animal plunged, foaming and snorting, into ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... things indeed. So to White Hall; and there by and by the Duke of York comes to the Robe-chamber, and spent with us three hours till night, in hearing the business of the Master-Attendants of Chatham, and the Store-keeper of Woolwich; and resolves to displace them all; so hot he is of giving proofs of his justice at this time, that it is their great fate now, to come to be questioned at such a time as this. Thence I to Unthanke's, and took my wife and Deb. home, and to supper and ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... her lowly, supple, artful character, 222; her servile, humble, gentle and pliant manner towards the Queen, 224; coincides with Anne in political and religious opinions, 224; strives to sap the power and credit of the Whigs and to displace Marlborough, 225; after an altercation with the Duchess, the Queen gives her entire confidence to Mrs. Masham, 226; ever on the watch to turn such disagreements to skilful account, 227; gradually worms herself into ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... bed. But presently he forgot them all and walked among shadows. He was at Blent in spirit, sometimes with Addie Tristram, sometimes with Cecily. His imagination undid what his hand had done; he was smiling again at the efforts of Duplay to frighten or to displace him. Thus he would be happy for a moment, till reality came back and a dead dulness settled on his soul. Half afraid of himself, he turned round and made for home again; he could not be sure of his self-control. But again he mastered that, and again paced the streets, now in a grim resolution to ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
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