How To Use Succedaneum In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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_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
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“Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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
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'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
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The order is peculiarly Moslem, in fact the succedaneum for the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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
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Mr. Rerechild, the Barchester doctor whom she employed; and then the young mother mentioned some shockingly modern succedaneum which
Barchester Towers
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Scott renders “pepper” (Lane i. 8) and it forms a clean succedaneum for one of the uncleanest articles of civilisation, the sponge.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The bark of the willow has, indeed, been justly considered as a succedaneum for Peruvian bark, as has also that of the horse-chestnut tree, the leaf of the holly, the snake-root, etc. It was evidently necessary to make trial of this substance, although not so valuable as Peruvian bark, and to employ it in its natural state, since they had no means for extracting its essence.
The Mysterious Island
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It is very certain, that speculation is no succedaneum for life.
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