What is "oust"

Usage examples of "oust".

I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day.

Joe Hd1 ousted Domm By The Old Mill Stream, but, though the sentiment was loftier, it was still uncritical, sull stickily there.

As the will of the nation, in so far as it contravenes not the law of God or the law of nature, binds every individual of the nation, no individual or number of individuals has, or can have, any right to conspire against him, or to labor to oust him from his place, till his escheat has been pronounced by the voice of the nation.

Jorn the Apostle would not have overlooked patrolling such an obvious rallying-point for the ousted, but presumably Jorn was somewhere at the other end of the Cloud with his main body.

I had already decided that there was another thing Great God Dangerfield had garbled: far from being an ancient race, the pigmies are neoteric, upstart usurpers who have appeared only recently on the scene to oust the peke and bear people.

Ramon, only to be ousted in the middle of the night in favor of a stranger, and a norteamericano at that!

They had also been off Puget Sound, but had not gone inland, and brought Vancouver word that Don Quadra, the Spanish emissary, sent to restore to England the fort from which Meares, the trader, had been ousted, had arrived at Nootka on the other side of the island, and was waiting.

Once again Saddam panicked, fearing that Iran would be able to push into Iraq and oust his regime as easily as it had reoccupied its own territory.

The British, in charge of the repatriation of approximately three-quarters of a million Japanese from south and southeast Asia, made no bones about their intention to hold on to a large number for projects in areas where the European powers, having ousted the Japanese aggressors, were intent on reasserting their own colonial authority.

Melody without seriously hurting or even killing her, because the Dastard would unhappen anything they tried to do to oust the Sea Hag.

And then, a few weeks later, Barras made a second attempt to oust the Royalists and this time he succeeded.

Sometimes unscrupulous relatives would take over the properties entirely, ousting the former name-bearer to a monkery, along with any of his sons.

He would be Prime Predictor until he died or retired or was ousted by a man who had proved a clearer vision.

If you oust me, rigorists would rebel against whatever pliant prelate you put in my place.

Lysander thinks he can achieve, other than to get his hands on the Standish fortune by ousting me as guardian and trustee.