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The moment Bastides made his appearance, he was seized as an illicit trader by the governor Bobadilla, the oppressor and superseder of Columbus, and sent for trial to Spain.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

The only thing he was thinking of was that not far from him was a superseder in possession of something which was once his.

From Kitty Canary by Bosher, Kate Langley

But alas!—If awkwardness was removed, something worse was substituted in its place ; my presidency was abolished on the very day it was to be declared, by the sudden return of its rightful superseder.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny