All 7 Uses of
prevail
in
Dune
- Slowly her long years of training prevailed.†
Book 2 *
- When we have moisture locked in grasslands, we'll move on to start upland forests, then a few open bodies of water—small at first—and situated along lines of prevailing winds with windtrap moisture precipitators spaced in the lines to recapture what the wind steals.†
Book 2
- Who could tell yet what rules of parenthood prevailed here?†
Book 2
- My good friends and companions, Thufir Hawat and Duncan Idaho, my years as a fugitive without rank or succor …. and one more thing: it is now kanly and you know as well as I the rules that must prevail.†
Book 3
- The mutated poverty grasses were planted first along the downwind (slipface) of the chosen dunes that stood across the path of the prevailing westerlies.†
Book A1 -
- SINK: a habitable lowland area on Arrakis surrounded by high ground that protects it from the prevailing storms.†
Book Term
- WINDTRAP: a device placed in the path of a prevailing wind and capable of precipitating moisture from the air caught within it, usually by a sharp and distinct drop in temperature within the trap.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win