All 8 Uses of
prevail
in
Bleak House
- "When the leaves are falling from the trees and there are no more flowers in bloom to make up into nosegays for the Lord Chancellor's court," said the old lady, "the vacation is fulfilled and the sixth seal, mentioned in the Revelations, again prevails.†
Chpt 4-6
- "Indeed," she pursued, "I positively doubt sometimes, I do assure you, whether while matters are still unsettled, and the sixth or Great Seal still prevails, I may not one day be found lying stark and senseless here, as I have found so many birds!"†
Chpt 4-6
- At last he said to me, 'Caddy, if Miss Summerson, who is a great favourite with my father, could be prevailed upon to be present when I broke the subject, I think I could do it.'†
Chpt 22-24
- Covering her face with her hands, she shrank down in my embrace as if she were unwilling that I should touch her; nor could I, by my utmost persuasions or by any endearments I could use, prevail upon her to rise.†
Chpt 34-36
- The Sol skilfully carries a vein of the prevailing interest through the Harmonic nights.†
Chpt 37-39
- It is a pity I ever was prevailed upon to turn out of my road for any other.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- Let me come up with her and be able to have the hold upon her of putting that young lady for'ard, and I'll save her and prevail with her if she is alive.†
Chpt 55-57
- That my mother had fled, that a person was now at our door who was empowered to convey to her the fullest assurances of affectionate protection and forgiveness if he could possibly find her, and that I was sought for to accompany him in the hope that my entreaties might prevail upon her if his failed.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win