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But the success of the voluntary system here is overthrowing this assumption.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

He is overthrowing Hel, the grim goddess of the shades of death, who is riding on the pale horse.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)