Word: overthrew
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...said of the Apostles that they overthrew the existing social conditions, but what they really did was to change the relations between religion and material interests. We need reformers of this sort, who will see to it that religion is not placed below business, and that the social order is not inverted...
When King James overthrew the company he began to prepare a constitution for the colony, but died before it was completed. He was succeeded by Charles, who, on account of quarrels with parliament, wished to make friends of the colonists...
...hint of immortality from the psalms of David. But in the New Testament the whole air is full of immortality, although the Sadducees and agnostics pretended not to believe in it. All this change and much more was brought about during those four lost centuries. Alexander the Great overthrew the vast Persian Empire and, as a great poet has said, "his chariot wheels smoothed the way for the gospel of Christ." Then the Roman Empire began to spread and extend its influence over all the civilized world. When Augustus defeated Antony the unification of Europe, Asia, and Africa was completed...
...conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent of the change which overthrew it that Wendell Phillips appears. It was probably the anti-slavery movement itself, with its feelings and sympathies calling for a poignant type of eloquence, which produced the change...
...second to first; Upton flied out to second and Howland to short-stop.- McClung hit safely to left centre; Cushing flied out to Alward; McClintock hit safely to left and stole second: McClung took second on McClintock's hit and stole third; Owsley knocked a grounder to Alward, who overthrew first, and McClung scored, McClintock taking third. Stagg hit to Soule, who, with Dean, doubled Owsley at second and Stagg at first...