preuaile

• “Then I began to refute that foule error: howbeit my speach did nothing at all preuaile with him: for he could not be perswaded that any soule might remaine without a body.”

  The Journal of Friar Odoric

• “Doe they any whit preuaile to establish that opinion concerning the hell of Island, which followeth next after in”

  A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas

• “Tropheis they reueale, And all her liues blacke legend, weeping tell; Yet all they speake, cannot in heauen preuaile, Which seene, in spight they follow her to hell, And there inhoused with their mother _Night_, All foure deuise, how heauen and earth to spight.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “But Abraham shaking him off proceeded on his way, whereupon the diuel seeing his words could not preuaile with the father attempted the sonne, saying; Ismael, haue regard vnto thyselfe betimes in this thing which is so dangerous.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “They be all hereabout rebels against their king Zelabdim Echebar: for here are so many riuers and Ilands, that they flee from one to another, whereby his horsemen cannot preuaile against them.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “So our men hailing spent all their pouder vpon them in attempting to land, and not being able to preuaile at so great oddes, returned frustrate.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Notwithstanding shortly after he breaking from his keepers, was againe at defiance with the King: whereupon king Richard besetting the Iland of Cyprus round about with shippes and gallies, did in sucn sort preuaile, that the subiects of the land, were constrained to yeelde themselues to the King, and at last the daughter of the”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “All the bread for our Souldiours was made in one storehouse, of the which noble gentleman Lorenzo Tiepolo captaine of Baffo285 had charge, who refused no paine, where thought his trauell might preuaile.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “These marriners did vse a certaine coniuration to breake the said tayle, or cut it in two, which as they say doth preuaile.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Some of the Englishmen got them to the height of an hill, and beate backe the Normans that forced themselues to win the hill of them, so that it was long yer the Normans could preuaile, being oftentimes driuen downe into the botome of the vallie beneath.”

  Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England

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