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• The observers can demonstrate that they are real observers and not a succedaneum like the Carter Center. Electoral trouble ahead in Venezuela
• Besides, since nature supplies cold as sparingly, we must do as the apothecaries do who, when they cannot get a simple, take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such as aloes for balsam, cassia for cinnamon. The New Organon
• The plough has not yet reached Pongo-land; the only tools are the erem (little axe for felling), the matchet (a rude cutlass for clearing), the hoe, and a succedaneum for the dibble. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• _Sabin_, or, as we call it, savine, not for dignity to be nam’d with the former; but for its being absolutely the best _Succedaneum_ to cypress, Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
• “Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• a slick for that purpose, a use to which our nails were afterwards applied with great advantage, and through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is passed, so as to hold the planks strongly together: The seams are caulked with dried rushes, and the whole outside of the vessel is paid with a gummy juice, which some of their trees produce in great plenty, and which is a very good succedaneum for pitch. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
• 'Yes,' he said, 'the pompion is a good vegetable, and an excellent succedaneum to the cabbage, in the latter part of the winter.' Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59
• The order is peculiarly Moslem, in fact the succedaneum for the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Besides, since nature supplies cold as sparingly, we must do as the apothecaries do who, when they cannot get a simple, take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such as aloes for balsam, cassia for cinnamon. The New Organon
• Mr. Rerechild, the Barchester doctor whom she employed; and then the young mother mentioned some shockingly modern succedaneum which Barchester Towers