Its social condition must be modified, its laws abolished, its opinions superseded, its habits changed, its manners corrupted.
The only copies he had been able to lay hands on were old Delphin editions, because they were superseded, and therefore cheap.
It is not strange, therefore, when French was superseded, for strategic reasons, that Haig should have been given the chief command.
But, even if the cards should be superseded, which seems unlikely, there are unruly powers blowing life into storms, disordering sedulous mornings, and uprooting the stability of the afternoon--dressmakers, that is to say, and confectioners' shops.