All 14 Uses of
prevail
in
David Copperfield
- But I never allowed myself to be prevailed upon to accept any invitation to eat and drink with them out of their stock (knowing that they got on badly with the butcher and baker, and had often not too much for themselves), until Mrs. Micawber took me into her entire confidence.†
Chpt 10-12
- Jugs of water, and watering-pots, were kept in secret places ready to be discharged on the offending boys; sticks were laid in ambush behind the door; sallies were made at all hours; and incessant war prevailed.†
Chpt 13-15
- Therefore, if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing chord among them with any skill, I should have made a poor hand of it.†
Chpt 19-21
- It was not until we had rung three or four times that we could prevail on Mrs. Crupp to communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stout lady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.†
Chpt 22-24
- Mrs. Crupp said, in the first place, of course it was well known she couldn't be expected to wait, but she knew a handy young man, who she thought could be prevailed upon to do it, and whose terms would be five shillings, and what I pleased.†
Chpt 22-24
- Agnes and hospitality prevailed, however, and I conducted him to my fireside.†
Chpt 25-27
- I shut the door after him, that it might cause no disturbance of the quiet that prevailed; and when I turned back, I found Mr. Peggotty still talking to her.†
Chpt 28-30
- Among all kinds of people a respect for them in their distress prevailed, which was full of gentleness and delicacy.†
Chpt 31-33
- She had not, but had sent into London to put her cousin off; and had gone out in the afternoon to see Agnes, and had prevailed upon the Doctor to go with her; and they had walked home by the fields, the Doctor told me, the evening being delightful.†
Chpt 34-36
- All kinds of treatment were tried with him, coaxing, scolding, slapping, bringing him to Buckingham Street (where he instantly dashed at the two cats, to the terror of all beholders); but he never could prevail upon himself to bear my aunt's society.†
Chpt 40-42
- Mr. Peggotty suggesting to me, in a whisper, what had already occurred to myself, I took out my purse; but I could not prevail upon her to accept any money, nor could I exact any promise from her that she would do so at another time.†
Chpt 46-48
- As I walked to and fro in the garden, and the twilight began to close around me, their little voices were hushed; and that peculiar silence which belongs to such an evening in the country when the lightest trees are quite still, save for the occasional droppings from their boughs, prevailed.†
Chpt 49-51
- A dead silence prevailed for some moments.†
Chpt 49-51 *
- 'It was a little cottage, you may suppose,' he said, presently, 'but she found space for Em'ly in it, — her husband was away at sea, — and she kep it secret, and prevailed upon such neighbours as she had (they was not many near) to keep it secret too.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win