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  • I could see the headline in the Pike Weekly News—LOCAL FARMER SUCCUMBS IN LIVING ROOM.†   (source)
  • The look of a man who's come to see What Might Have Been is full of both bloodshed and nostalgia; should Owen succumb to his fever, Mr. Morrison looked ready to play the part.†   (source)
  • The skeleton hovered a moment, like a tentative lover, and then with a sticky crackling, it succumbed to gravity and peeled away.†   (source)
  • No plagues rain down upon museum employees; Marie-Laure does not succumb to snakebite or tumble into a sewer and break her back.†   (source)
  • With no fanfare save for the wind in the mute trees and the beating of their illicit hearts, they jumped, succumbed to the extended downward tug of the portal, the upward velocity, and sprang from a puddle inside the Houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • I saw too many friends and family members succumb to its powerful destruction.†   (source)
  • I was about to go talk to him when my Uncle Bobby grabbed me by the elbow and pulled me into a cornet Bobby was a big barrel-chested guy who drove a big car and lived in a big house and would eventually succumb to a big heart attack from all the foie gras and Monster Thick-burgers he'd packed into his colon over the years, leaving everything to my pothead cousins and his tiny quiet wife.†   (source)
  • He watches the sky whiten, listens as the perfect silence is replaced by the faintest hum of distant traffic, until suddenly he succumbs, for a few hours, to the deepest sleep possible, his mind blank and undisturbed, his limbs motionless, weighted down.†   (source)
  • Just when my mind has succumbed to every part of being wrapped up in him, his lips come to a standstill and he slowly pulls back.†   (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • They must have been set free only to succumb to the fumes.†   (source)
  • There's some debate about what kind of man Joseph was—whether he was righteous or not, whether he ever succumbed to the disease—but in any case, he took good care of her.†   (source)
  • She approaches and then sits by her sister's grave, trying hard to fight the emotions as they come to her but succumbing all the same.†   (source)
  • Four more Urgals succumbed to Zar'roc's thirsty bite, then Murtagh rode up beside Eragon, driving the press of Urgals backward.†   (source)
  • The scout that Bernie Kosar is choking finally succumbs to death and bursts into a heap of ash covering the dog's face.†   (source)
  • I do not succumb to them.†   (source)
  • Caught between a rock and a hard place, Roper succumbed to the rock: Fulmer's buses rolled into Briarcrest at 3:31, just in time to pass Roper driving in the other direction, with Michael in the car.†   (source)
  • I guess that's why, when he inevitably succumbed to his most shocking injuries, they had accorded him that barbaric tribal finale.†   (source)
  • They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted's men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake.†   (source)
  • The passage speaks of the cup of the Lord's fury, and the context has to do with sons who have lost their way, who are afflicted, who may yet succumb to desolation and destruction.†   (source)
  • Would she succumb to Francis's ready presence, to the simple fact that he wanted to be near her?†   (source)
  • Only you can shoot it without succumbing to the disease.†   (source)
  • Enzo is now seeing the world in dim black and white, like a cheap Metaverse terminal; this is how his buddies used to describe it in Vietnam right before they succumbed to blood loss.†   (source)
  • But he had already decided that credibility depended on the two live burials' being related somehow, and Misery had succumbed in her bedroom.†   (source)
  • More of my homies from forty years ago have died, including Rene Munoz-Ledo, who wrote a family-produced hook, "Forgiven," about overcoming his gang and drug experiences before succumbing to cancer in 2004.†   (source)
  • At sixty-one, when the first of Brittain's group succumbs, Ellerby breaks the code of silence to ask Brittain's Lord why he has forsaken them, but after that the only sounds to be heard are the constant churning of the water interrupted by the slap of feet and calves on eachflip turn, the shrill blast of Lemry's whistle, and the urgent whine of eleven wheezing, oxygen-deprived idiots sucking every last molecule of breathable air out of the chlorine-filled atmosphere.†   (source)
  • She succumbed to a fever on July 2, Giovanni and Dominic on July 3, Ricardo and Angelina on July 6," Jane said grimly.†   (source)
  • Did he feel sorry for himself, succumb to self-pity and depression?†   (source)
  • As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar.†   (source)
  • They had less than a month left before they succumbed to old very old age.†   (source)
  • Jace succumbed.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he's tempted to succumb.†   (source)
  • Almost succumbing to the sudden blackness that threatened to smother him, Mack leaned on the table to keep from passing out or throwing up.†   (source)
  • All around the country, magazines began shuttering, succumbing to a sudden infection brought on by the busted economy.†   (source)
  • If he had not given in to the many temptations at hand before he experienced Fermina Daza's love, he certainly would not succumb now that she was his official betrothed.†   (source)
  • Thalia still didn't know what happened to him—whether he'd succumbed to his disease after her arrest, or whether he was still clinging to life, praying that he'd get to see his daughter again someday.†   (source)
  • She knew what it was—she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.†   (source)
  • He started to hum my lullaby, and I knew it was only a matter of time till I succumbed, so I closed my eyes and snuggled closer into his chest.†   (source)
  • In the past, there were many children who never survived—they succumbed to various diseases.†   (source)
  • Dropping to his knee, he struck her several times in the face, and she might have succumbed early had he not hit his hand against the metal bed frame when his wife ducked.†   (source)
  • STARLET SUCCUMBS AFTER 68-HOUR COMA.†   (source)
  • This cousin told Saeed that Saeed's father had passed away from pneumonia, a lingering infection he had fought for months, initially just a cold but then much worse, and in the absence of antibiotics he had succumbed, but he had not been alone, his siblings were with him, and he had been buried next to his wife, as he had wished.†   (source)
  • But knowing myself, and I do, if I keep coming in here for breakfast, I'll eventually succumb to the allure of the pancake.†   (source)
  • It would hardly have been seemly for someone who had challenged our dictator to suddenly succumb to a nervous attack at the communion rail.†   (source)
  • She would have walked beneath yellow-ringed pines rising to a brilliant eastern sky, and her senses would have succumbed to the joy of the morning.†   (source)
  • The others who had died young had succumbed to other factors than illness.†   (source)
  • But there is no water and I succumb to the dizziness before everything goes black.†   (source)
  • I gave a nervous laugh and tried to cover it up by cracking my knuckles, a bad habit I never succumbed to.†   (source)
  • There's only one place that could be: Candor headquarters, where I succumbed to the truth serum.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the game generated a treasure-hunt excitement, and presently he, too, succumbed to the fun, the fervor of this quest for refundable empties.†   (source)
  • Nearly a month had passed since Moody had made hostages of us, and the longer we remained in Iran the more he succumbed to the unfathomable pull of his native culture.†   (source)
  • Then at last, the Freak Tent, the great melancholy mothering reptile bird, after a moment of indecision, sucked in a Niagara of blizzard air, broke loose three hundred hempen snakes, crackrattled its black sidepoles so they fell like teeth from a cyclopean jaw, slammed the air with acres of moldered wing as if trying to kite away but, earth-tethered, must succumb to plain and most simple gravity, must be crushed by its own locked bulk.†   (source)
  • For too long, we have succumbed to the false gods of the white man.†   (source)
  • For a time it seemed the girl might be fine, but eventually she succumbed to her wounds and probable infection, and died at just nine years old.†   (source)
  • Would the almost-sins I'd already succumbed to condemn me to the Telestial Kingdom, the place where scumbags go?†   (source)
  • It brought to mind his mother, who had died when he was eight, and also a little sister he had been fond of, who had succumbed to a fever when only four.†   (source)
  • Some girls die or suffer lifelong injuries, but there is no data; a girl who dies after being cut is usually said to have succumbed to malaria.†   (source)
  • You succumb to the mercy of events going on around you.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Adam had come to believe that what appeared to be a freak accident "was actually God tapping him on the shoulder, letting him know he wasn't happy that Adam had succumbed to that voice," says Kelley.†   (source)
  • After an hour or two of poking about each day he'd succumb to exhaustion and return to stare at the sky from his nest of pillows by Haji Ali's hearth.†   (source)
  • The farmer had died of the plague, and the remnants of his family had fled to the nearest town, where they, too, succumbed, adding their numbers to the billions who perished in the 3rd Wave.†   (source)
  • "Daddy's sick" soon yielded to "Daddy's gone," as Duke succumbed to diabetes at the age of thirty-five.†   (source)
  • If I didn't succumb to starvation, I would be here for a long time, with hateful mistresses and with Hattie ordering me about.†   (source)
  • The family would succumb to a mysterious fever which dried up the very blood in their bodies!' he said, now mocking a barker's tone.†   (source)
  • Someone less original than Clara would have tired of her sister-inlaw's excessive pampering and constant worry, or have succumbed to her domineering and meticulous nature.†   (source)
  • Had that pathetic first son of hers succumbed?†   (source)
  • After a quick dinner stop, Cedric's tenseness succumbs to a long nap.†   (source)
  • Mr. Pritchard said, "I have cabled the mission board that your parents have succumbed to the influenza epidemic."†   (source)
  • I felt myself succumbing to the giddy joy my best friends expressed as soon as I walked into the room.†   (source)
  • As the week went on'and my losses to the snooze bar continued'I found myself succumbing to the carpool and, subsequently, our walk together into school itself, audience and all.†   (source)
  • I've merely been succumbing to the Western drag of materialism—which you have to have the strength of elephants to resist.†   (source)
  • A cross next to the name she took as a sign the patient had succumbed.†   (source)
  • He had entered the black forest without succumbing to the water.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Fidel had many health problems, and at fifty-nine years old he succumbed to a heart attack and joined his mother and father in heaven.†   (source)
  • A single rat with a massive dose lived nearly three minutes, but he also succumbed in the end.†   (source)
  • Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of man never dies.†   (source)
  • As the dutiful son of Deacon John, he appears neither to have succumbed to gambling, "riotous living," nor to "wenching" in taverns on the road to Charlestown.†   (source)
  • I have made a list of all who have succumbed so far to the Plague and have laid it down upon a map of the dwellings in this place.†   (source)
  • Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Wasn't he letting his fear run away with him again, succumbing to paranoia?†   (source)
  • They could see the end of the stairs above them when Eugenides succumbed to temptation and produced under his breath a credible imitation of a small goat bleating.†   (source)
  • I think the prospect of many healthy years reunited with his son gnawed at his mind until he succumbed at last.†   (source)
  • Four days ago, one of the king's own squires had succumbed to cold and hunger, a boy named Bryen Farring who'd been kin to Ser Godry.†   (source)
  • It later succumbed.†   (source)
  • Deo was behaving like one of those arrogant ancient Greek heroes who, victorious in a battle, succumbs to hubris, claims he's mastered fate, doesn't fear Ata's retaliation, and for his stupid boast gets visited by Nemesis.†   (source)
  • They thought to solve it by substituting synthetic voices so clearly nonhuman that people would not succumb to gender stereotypes, but people still did.†   (source)
  • She does not succumb to charm.†   (source)
  • I resisted and then I would succumb to unholy thought.†   (source)
  • They were ten thousand men, and they could not imagine that with their mass they could succumb to something as prosaic as the cold.†   (source)
  • There is but one way, and that is emancipation; either that or we must succumb and divide.†   (source)
  • Amanda understood this tactic, but somehow still succumbed to it.†   (source)
  • I felt disappointed that I'd once again allowed myself to succumb to anxiety.†   (source)
  • This is frequently done during visiting hours, when visitors might succumb to a patient's wishes to change position against the doctor's wishes.†   (source)
  • She did not succumb to it.†   (source)
  • I thought about succumbing to that look she gave me, the one that had always made even the most defiant students lower their heads in shame.†   (source)
  • Every day, we would succumb between 1 and 3 P.M., collapsing under some kind of shade only to find the shade offered little relief.†   (source)
  • When it comes to the point we succumb to their personality….†   (source)
  • It was for this reason perhaps, Sophie thought as she climbed the steps, that she succumbed from time to time to an occasional irresistible peek—doing so now, seeing only the string of boxcars newly arrived, as yet unloaded.†   (source)
  • I succumbed utterly to my desolation, made two peanut-butter sandwiches, and went to bed and wrote long letters home, passing my loneliness around.†   (source)
  • This was the ultimate temptation, for I desperately wanted to learn to drive, but I refused to succumb.†   (source)
  • If he had been armed I am sure he would have leaped across the table and we would have grappled on the floor until either he or I had succumbed.†   (source)
  • That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the joyful source and voice in him was still alive after all, this was why he felt joy, this was why he laughed, this was why his face was smiling brightly under his hair which had turned gray.†   (source)
  • Succumbing to her passion for matchmaking, so deep-rooted in the Latin heart, she was delighted when she found them in each other's company, and would shake her finger and wink slyly at them.†   (source)
  • I deplore Mr. Papillon's action; it was his duty not to succumb.†   (source)
  • Those present believed him to have succumbed since it was said the pick while in the woman's hand had been seen to drive in and pierce either his ear or his eye, either of which is in close approximation to the brain.†   (source)
  • Reich, who had never succumbed to the fashion of wearing ultra-violet windows in his clothes, stood secure in his opaque suit, watching with contempt the quick, roving eyes around him, searching, appraising, comparing, desiring.†   (source)
  • She predicted that 40% of Atlantic salmon would succumb to the disease.
    succumb = suffer defeat (die from)
  • Everyone insisted she attend and she finally succumbed.
    succumbed = reluctantly agreed
  • Well, he seems to be succumbing to it rapidly.†   (source)
  • He thought that she might have succumbed, for once, to tears.†   (source)
  • Janson thinks that Newt's succumbing to the Flare a lot faster than average.†   (source)
  • She succumbed for a second, collapsed on the sofa, the new reality settling on her.†   (source)
  • Then he succumbed to the temptation of giving vent to his feelings with an ironic barb.†   (source)
  • If there had been any gust in the other direction, his building would have succumbed, too.†   (source)
  • There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams.†   (source)
  • Langdon succumbed, his head spiraling like the smoke overhead.†   (source)
  • Poor little Paul Dombey succumbs with the sole purpose of breaking his father's heart.†   (source)
  • When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it.†   (source)
  • Even his mother had succumbed to the modern world on that one.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.†   (source)
  • My hurt quickly succumbs to the anger building up inside of me.†   (source)
  • Soil was churned and flowers flew until Max succumbed and fished a metal bar from his pocket.†   (source)
  • She succumbed to another fit of laughter and flicked playfully at its nose.†   (source)
  • And fully remembered the decisions he'd made before succumbing to sleep.†   (source)
  • Her mother had succumbed to five-o'clock fever.†   (source)
  • Too bad he is married, I thought, and then succumbed to a quick pang of guilt.†   (source)
  • The ladder wavered a moment in air, patiently succumbing to gravity.†   (source)
  • Adam claims he heard a loud snap, like a limb succumbing to the wind of a northwesterly blow.†   (source)
  • We have succumbed to this temptation more than once.†   (source)
  • As more succumbed, few among us had the strength to move the bodies.†   (source)
  • Kicking off his boots, Max gazed up at the stars and succumbed to a lullaby of wind and sea.†   (source)
  • If he succumbed to it, he would be of no use to anyone, no help to Lisa or to himself.†   (source)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.†   (source)
  • I detest myself for succumbing to this power he lords over me.†   (source)
  • His best friend, Connor Lynch, had succumbed to it the previous year.†   (source)
  • Only Rebeca succumbed to the first impact.†   (source)
  • She finally succumbed to a fitful, restless sleep.†   (source)
  • Why, then, had he succumbed so completely to the tyranny of the legend?†   (source)
  • He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs.†   (source)
  • It had been established in 1973 after four members of a single Japanese trekking group succumbed to the altitude and died in the vicinity.†   (source)
  • Their father had succumbed to cancer when Katherine was only seven, and she had little memory of him.†   (source)
  • Seventeen-year-old John—whose girlfriend was pregnant with his infant daughter—succumbed to a shotgun blast in his living room as his younger brother watched from beneath a bed in an adjacent room.†   (source)
  • And when the Count's parents succumbed to cholera within hours of each other in 1900, it was the Grand Duke who took the young Count aside and explained that he must be strong for his sister's sake; that adversity presents itself in many forms; and that if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.†   (source)
  • He was exercising all his willpower to prevent himself succumbing again to Voldemort's rage: His scar was still burning.†   (source)
  • It was twelve thirty, and because Mae was feeling strong, and feeling so confident, she finally succumbed and answered her phone, knowing it would be Kalden.†   (source)
  • These programs are far from perfect, but to the degree that I nearly succumbed to my worst decisions (and I came quite close), the fault lies almost entirely with factors outside the government's control.†   (source)
  • She, like the Ofuna guards more than a century later, had succumbed to what Douglass called "the fatal poison of irresponsible power."†   (source)
  • The dier passively succumbs.†   (source)
  • …electricity network were such that a few motes of nighttime brightness remained in Saeed and Nadia's locality, at properties on the edges, near where barricades and checkpoints were manned by armed government forces, and in scattered pockets that were for some reason difficult to disconnect, and in the odd building here and there where an enterprising migrant had rigged together a connection to a still-active high-voltage line, risking and in some cases succumbing to electrocution.†   (source)
  • But after the murder of President Kennedy, it seemed to me that there was "no remedy" for Owen Meany, either; he succumbed to a state of mind that he would not discuss with me—he went into a visible decline in communication.†   (source)
  • They reported that one of the men, in his death throes, had torn off most of his clothing before finally succumbing to the elements.†   (source)
  • Each time the woman left Dad could hardly contain his excitement, so that finally, succumbing to either the woman's desperation or to Dad's elation, or to both, Mother gave way.†   (source)
  • As strong as the current was running, it would have certainly knocked him off his feet, but by dogpaddling and hopping along the bottom as he drifted downstream, he could conceivably have made it across before being carried into the gorge or succumbing to hypothermia.†   (source)
  • She laughed, such an unexpected sound that Thomas thought for a second she'd succumbed to the Flare—become a full-blown Crank or something.†   (source)
  • Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mold or damp.†   (source)
  • Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses) SHADDAM IV (10,134-10,202) The Padishah Emperor, 81st of his line (House Corrino) to occupy the Golden Lion Throne, reigned from 10,156 (date his father, Elrood IX, succumbed to chaumurky) until replaced by the 10,196 Regency set up in the name of his eldest daughter, Irulan.†   (source)
  • Cynthia, as gorgeous and headstrong as ever, had succumbed to cancer in 2001, drifting off as Louie pressed his face to hers, whispering, "I love you.†   (source)
  • I had never succumbed.†   (source)
  • So the San Jose was not the only sunken vessel, although there was no reliable documented record of how many had succumbed and how many had managed to escape the English fire.†   (source)
  • That is how my sister ended her letter, by telling me I was not welcome in her home, or even to call her unless someone else was on the line to supervise, to keep her from succumbing to my influence.†   (source)
  • He watched Voldemort's white, snakelike face vanishing into darkness, those red eyes fixed pitilessly on the thrashing elf whose death would occur within minutes, whenever he succumbed to the desperate thirst that the burning poison caused its victim … But here, Harry's imagination could go no further, for he could not see how Kreacher had escaped.†   (source)
  • When, in the course of Justine, the first novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the narrator's lover, Melissa, succumbs to tuberculosis, he means something very different from what Ibsen means.†   (source)
  • Then he sprang to his feet, sprinted a few meters away, yanked his trousers down, and succumbed to a loud attack of diarrhea.†   (source)
  • It looked like there'd once been an effort to make the grounds a little prettier than the barren land around it, but the bushes and flowers and trees had long succumbed to winter, and the patches of gray dirt he could see amid the snow bore only weeds.†   (source)
  • Those dark thoughts, in turn, were starting to make him wonder if Teresa hadn't been lying after all that last time they'd spoken, when she'd said it was too late for Thomas and insisted that he'd succumbed to the Flare rapidly, had become crazy and violent.†   (source)
  • But when she had to face the decision of marrying Juvenal Urbino, she succumbed, in a major crisis, when she realized that she had no valid reasons for preferring him after she had rejected Florentino Ariza without valid reasons.†   (source)
  • Climbing with Andy Harris at the front of the group, I continually stuffed snow under my hat and lungs would propel me, hoping to and moved as fast as my legs reach the shade of the tents before succumbing to the solar radiation, the sun beat down, my head began to As the morning dragged on an und.†   (source)
  • These were the cremated remains of sixty Australian POWs—one in every five prisoners—who had died in this camp in 1943 and 1944, succumbing to pneumonia, beriberi, malnutrition, colitis, or a combination of these.†   (source)
  • Jeremiah de Saint-Amour loved life with a senseless passion, he loved the sea and love, he loved his dog and her, and as the date approached he had gradually succumbed to despair as if his death had been not his own decision but an inexorable destiny.†   (source)
  • Before he left the boat he succumbed to the temptation of a symbolic act: he threw his petate into the water, and followed it with his eyes as it floated past the beacon lights of the invisible fishermen, left the lagoon, and disappeared in the ocean.†   (source)
  • He continued to drink from the bottle until dawn, and he became drunk on Fermina Daza in abrasive swallows, first in the taverns around the port and then as he stared out to sea from the jetties where lovers without a roof over their heads made consoling love, until at last he succumbed to unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • …invisible route, trying another, more intense path, another means of proceeding without drowning in the slimy marsh that flowed from her womb, droning like a horsefly as she asked herself questions and answered in her native jargon; where was that something in the shadows that only she knew about and that she longed for just for herself, until she succumbed without waiting for anybody, she fell alone into her abyss with a jubilant explosion of total victory that made the world tremble.†   (source)
  • Seduced by his personal charms and by the certainty of his family fortune, the girls in his circle held secret lotteries to determine who would spend time with him, and he gambled, too, on being with them, but he managed to keep himself in a state of grace, intact and tempting, until he succumbed without resistance to the plebeian charms of Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • Had I not had the wine, perhaps I could have found my strength, but as it was I succumbed with little resistance.†   (source)
  • It had taken several chapters of Dickens before Clary had finally succumbed to exhaustion and fallen asleep against Jace's shoulder.†   (source)
  • He would have happily succumbed to the bewitchment of the music had it not been for the distraction of Arya's attacks and the knowledge that humans did not often fare well if they became too fascinated with the workings of an elf's mind.†   (source)
  • She hated that she'd succumbed this morning; she liked to imagine that she'd been handling this with a quiet dignity.†   (source)
  • This brought back all the panic from my first weeks here, and I might have succumbed to it–begun hiding again, avoiding the common areas–but something more important than Kyle's murderous glares came to my attention that second night.†   (source)
  • That girl seriously owes me, and I'd better collect soon, before she succumbs to the shadows overtaking her soul.†   (source)
  • No raffle ticket, no Bingo, no policy slip, no clearing-house number, no magazine sweepstakes, no, nor any unpierced carnival balloon succumbed to her magic.†   (source)
  • "Are you sure?" asked Max, glowering at the Agent before succumbing to a series of dry, hacking coughs.†   (source)
  • Worse, you might even be proud of yourself for not succumbing to my blatant attempts to affect your emotions.†   (source)
  • He wrestled with his unruly emotions deep into the night, until finally he succumbed to exhaustion and drifted into the waiting embrace of his waking dreams.†   (source)
  • You succumbed to flattery and vanity.†   (source)
  • The hour hand held its breath and pointed off to the right halfway between two and three, the minute hand had succumbed to gravity and was resting at one notch before the half hour.†   (source)
  • So now more than ever he felt bound to do all in his power to serve honorably, succumbing neither to vanity nor political craftiness.†   (source)
  • They all hated sleeping in the roadside inns–succumbing to unconsciousness inside the very mouth of the enemy.†   (source)
  • Rather than succumbing to an adoption system overburdened with orphans, my siblings and I ran to the fringe—the same place where your mother also took refuge, years later—and only I came out of there alive.†   (source)
  • In that time, two of his victims succumbed to their wounds down the hallway in the trauma center—the older of the Haredim, and the secular Israeli who had been mistakenly shot.†   (source)
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