Supplanted

Examples

• Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This change, beginning about 1860 and running through a period of nearly twenty years, has gradually supplanted the old electro-chemical dualistic theory and established the present system. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The heated air which rises from furnaces is seldom hot enough to warm large buildings well; hence furnace heating is being largely supplanted by hot-water heating. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In time, of course, Mr. Knightley would be forgotten, that is, supplanted; but this could not be expected to happen very early. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Wind and water as motive powers have been supplanted by steam and electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Albumen has, however, been supplanted by collodion--a solution of gun-cotton in ether--which is found to be peculiarly suitable for the reception of the sensitive preparation of silver. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The dynamo, however, has generally supplanted the voltaic battery in this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It differs from the Manila fiber, which has now very largely supplanted it, by being much softer, though of less strength. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A third system, which has supplanted to some extent the use of steam on short line railways, is the so-called third rail system, of which an example is seen in Fig. 36. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The forge of Hephaistos hath supplanted the garden of Cytherea. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I could not bear to have Henry supplanted. Jane Austen. Emma.
• All are supplanted sooner or later. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• To-day, however, it represents but a decadent type, being largely supplanted by the superior advantages of electricity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Later on this primitive indicator was supplanted by the Bradley Bridge, a crude form of the Howell pressure indicators, which were subsequently used for many years in the Edison stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Here in the early days stood a rude castle or fort, later supplanted by an opera house. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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