What is "replaced"

Usage examples of "replaced".

If the antiquated and badly repaired mechanism of the mill had been replaced by modern appliances, and if the land, instead of being impoverished by adherence to old-fashioned practices, had fallen into the hands of an intelligent man who believed in progress, there would no doubt have been a fortune in it all.

But nowadays when, thanks to us, corn overflows on all sides, surely he ought to have pulled down his old wheel and have replaced it by a good engine.

Which was of scant concern to the Alexandrians, who replaced him with his eldest daughter, Berenice, and her mother, Cleopatra Tryphaena.

Octavius as the whirr of small bird wings was replaced by the ponderous flap of owls.

In this sense, in defiance of morality and health, did the capitalist bourgeoisie, which had replaced the old nobility, virtually re-establish the law of primogeniture.

She disappeared while the maid, before answering a second ring, leisurely replaced the malaga and the biscuits at the bottom of the cupboard.

Froment already replaced him, even as vivacious, fast-growing plants overrun neighboring barren fields.

A new son had replaced the one she had lost, and helped to fill the void in her heart.

Charlotte alone nursed her, and of all her sons she had but the last one, Benjamin, beside her in the now over-spacious house which had replaced the old shooting-box.

As Prindin replaced the arrow in his quiver, Kahlan told him what Richard had said.

Shota replaced the stopper, tucked the bottle back between her breasts, and with a finger, pushed it so far down it could no longer be seen.

The warm glow of lamps was replaced by the flickering shadows of widely spaced torches.

Even now, those lost are being replaced by others joining with us, and we will swell in rank to take in all the known lands.

When she replaced it, she saw the bone knife Chandalen had given her, and tied it around her arm again.

Sounds of palace life were left far behind, to be replaced by dead silence.