All 7 Uses of
prevail
in
Moby Dick
- But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.†
Chpt 10-12
- Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail upon Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain.†
Chpt 16-18
- …and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.†
Chpt 28-30
- Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never…†
Chpt 31-33
- By night the same muteness of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the blast.†
Chpt 49-51
- For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's; ever since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific presentations of him.†
Chpt 55-57
- In old times, there seem to have prevailed the most curious fancies concerning these blinds.†
Chpt 73-75 *
Definition:
-
(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win