prevail'd

Night, after I had determined not to go, Charlotte and Bet came up to see for me, and to say that they had prevail'd on Nat to accompany me.

Letter 112 2009

This her Refusal made them fancy she had some other Object of her Affection; which Fancy so prevail'd with them, that they threatned to confine her to her Chamber, thereby to discover or prevent any such

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Voyage, which she was very unwilling to permit, as being loth to bereave my Father of his Company; and therefore most earnestly invited Him along with me; but he cou'd not be prevail'd upon to leave his beloved Cell, which no doubt was to him a certain Heaven, where his devout Soul conversed daily with the Powers divine.

Exilius 2008

This her Refusal made them fancy she had some other Object of her Affection; which Fancy so prevail'd with them, that they threatned to confine her to her Chamber, thereby to discover or prevent any such

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

The Consideration of all which, made us without Difficulty commit to this holy Anchorite the whole of what had befallen us, and prevail'd with him to go see if he could find the Body of my Father; but his Pains prov'd ineffectual: for at his Return he told us that he had found the tragick

Exilius 2008

"Thou has half prevail'd against me," said so — he —

Port Eternity Cherryh, C. J. 1982

In the Third Place, you could never yet be prevail'd on to learn to sing.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 1963

The second prevail'd and I was call'd upon to give my Opinion first.

John Adams diary 11, 18 - 29 December 1765 1961

The last counsel prevail'd; for the moment of doom,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

I prevail'd, notwithstanding, that this word, whose anti-poetic influence is so dreaded, should be in the Book.

An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Nathaniel Bloomfield