Both Uses of
prevail
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Supposing that I escaped capture in the streets, how was I to make my way into his presence? and how should I, an unknown and displeasing visitor, prevail on the famous physician to rifle the study of his colleague, Dr. Jekyll?†
p. 102..3 *
- And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him and deposed him out of life.†
p. 106..5
Definition:
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(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win