1 It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.
2 But I thought you were a Catalan, and they told me the Catalans were not men to allow themselves to be supplanted by a rival.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 3 With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution supplanted generosity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 4 Rage supplanted religious fervor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 5 All are supplanted sooner or later.
6 He was successfully supplanted for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early prominence.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 7 Pride and exultation were supplanted by humility, and the fiercest of human passions was already succeeded by the most profound and unequivocal demonstrations of grief.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 8 The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
9 At the same time the severity with which he had treated her lulled the sharpness of his regret for his mother, and awoke some of his old solicitude for his mother's supplanter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter