Succeeds

Examples

• The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mrs. Briefless's papa succeeds; so you see she will be a baronet's daughter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If the project succeeds, they are commonly at first very high. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In a profession, where twenty fail for one that succeeds, that one ought to gain all that should have been gained by the unsuccessful twenty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If Hunter succeeds in reaching Lynchburg, that will be lost to him also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Everything succeeds with me to-night, he said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Prophet succeeds prophet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was taken at his word, and there he still beats, but never succeeds in rounding the point. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The man pushes down with a force of 100 pounds, but with that amount succeeds in prying up the 600-pound bowlder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is that which enables me to speak French so well: a gude Scots tongue always succeeds well at the French. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If he succeeds, Mr. Gilmore will then return to London, taking with him his instructions for my sister's marriage-settlement. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It involves the devotion of all my energies, such as they are; but that is nothing, so that it succeeds; and I am more confident of success every day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Stacy