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consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat
- He was succumbing to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness.Book Three — 1805 (70% in)
- Sonya did not succumb to the tender tone Natasha used toward her.Book Eight — 1811-12 (69% in)
- When he was informed that among others awaiting him in his reception room there was a Frenchman who had brought a letter from his wife, the Countess Helene, he felt suddenly overcome by that sense of confusion and hopelessness to which he was apt to succumb.Book Eleven — 1812 (43% in)
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