"Supplanter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inheritor of his own fading honours, the usurper of his strength, and influence, and worship, rapidly passing away from his feeble grasp; and as he gazes, though his lips pour willing benedictions on the unconscious supplanter, there lingers in his heart the sorrowful, "He shall ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various
... been forgotten, and I have always been looked on as an interloper. Depend on it, poor old Brooks fancies the muddle in his accounts was a suggestion of my malice! Imagine the feelings of Hiltonbury, when I, his supplanter, ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... thrown off his cloak and the remainder of his disguise. He now stood proudly erect before the supplanter, who was somewhat ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... useless to think of such a thing. We can prove nothing. He is a man, and has had a jealous feeling of us all our lives. Now fortune has favoured him, and he is glorying in his prosperity. He is rightly named James, or Jacob, for he is a base supplanter!' ...
— The Carved Cupboard • Amy Le Feuvre
... back of the palace with wary eyes, for they were afraid that a guard might now be set upon the walls. But Billy had argued that Kerissen was unaware of Fritzi's knowledge of Arlee's identity; in fact she had at first supposed her a willing supplanter like herself, and so he would not be apprehensive of any of her revelations. And he did not dream that Fritzi's rescuers ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... engendered of thy fame, A new sea-eagle heir thy conqueror name. And with commissioned talons wrench From thy supplanter's grimy clench His sheath of steel, his wings of smoke ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... now, for the first time in twenty-three years, failed to include herself. Now she was an outsider, for her child's heart and life alike had passed from her keeping: It is a bitter moment for all mothers; doubly bitter when, as to Mrs Ramsden, the supplanter seems ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... this answer was an evasion. By forcing the tie they had merely marked the want of ease and confidence between them. As "Packer John" Paul could have enjoyed, nay, loved this man; as his father, the sum and finality of his filial dreams, the supplanter of that imaginary husband of his mother's youth, the thing was impossible. And the father knew it and did not resent it in the least, only pitied the boy for his needless struggle. He was curious about ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote |
