All 12 Uses of
prevail
in
War and Peace
- At that time in the Rostovs' house there prevailed an amorous atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very charming girls.†
Chpt 4
- I think so…. but as you please," said Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion had prevailed.†
Chpt 5
- At that time enthusiasm for the Emperor Alexander's regime had weakened and a patriotic and anti-French tendency prevailed there, and this, together with his past and his intellect and his originality, at once made Prince Nicholas Bolkonski an object of particular respect to the Moscovites and the center of the Moscow opposition to the government.†
Chpt 8
- In spite of the many pills she swallowed and the drops and powders out of the little bottles and boxes of which Madame Schoss who was fond of such things made a large collection, and in spite of being deprived of the country life to which she was accustomed, youth prevailed.†
Chpt 9
- Lord, Thou art able to save both great and small; Thou art God, and man cannot prevail against Thee!†
Chpt 9
- Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.†
Chpt 10
- Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.†
Chpt 10
- In Helene's circle the war in general was regarded as a series of formal demonstrations which would very soon end in peace, and the view prevailed expressed by Bilibin—who now in Petersburg was quite at home in Helene's house, which every clever man was obliged to visit—that not by gunpowder but by those who invented it would matters be settled.†
Chpt 10
- On the right a single deep report of a cannon resounded and died away in the prevailing silence.†
Chpt 10 *
- At the council at Fili the prevailing thought in the minds of the Russian commanders was the one naturally suggesting itself, namely, a direct retreat by the Nizhni road.†
Chpt 13
- The city police is established on its former footing, and better order already prevails in consequence of its activity.†
Chpt 13
- What would then have become of the activity of all those who opposed the tendency that then prevailed in the government—an activity that in the opinion of the historians was good and beneficent?†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win