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He has arrogated to himself the title which expresses the highest thought of divinity known to the conceptions of the Chinese mind.

From Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by Fagg, John Gerardus

This the Pope has arrogated to himself, and thus claims that he is sovereign lord, and will dispose of the sheep as he chooses.

From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by Gillett, E. H. (Ezra Hall)

Every subordinate eminence that has arrogated to itself the sublimity of the distant mountain, against whose rocky sides it lay lost, is unmasked by the vapors that gather behind it and reveal its low-lying outlines.

From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail

But who can claim that the principle of fermentation, which she has arrogated to herself, is necessary to her health and happiness?

From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Haley, Bart