Prevailing

Examples

• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• One now prevailing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I grant that in the rigid political conditions prevailing to-day a new issue is an embarrassment, perhaps a hindrance to the procedure of political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Vice in our cities is a form of the sexual impulse--one of the forms it has taken under prevailing social conditions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But his prevailing occupation was splendour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This exhibited merely the prevailing price of gold; but as its quotations changed from instant to instant, it was in a most literal sense the cynosure of neighboring eyes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Evans system, with minor modifications and improvements, was the prevailing one for three-quarters of a century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This advice prevailing over the stables and the jelly, they turned towards the coach-office to witness the Lightning's arrival. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It bowed to the prevailing conscience when it proposed taboos instead of radical changes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If you want to impose a taboo upon a whole community, you must do it autocratically, you must make it part of the prevailing superstitions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His judges sat upon the Bench in feathered hats; but the rough red cap and tricoloured cockade was the head-dress otherwise prevailing. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Therefore, if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing chord among them with any skill, I should have made a poor hand of it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Their prevailing tints are gray and brown, approaching to red. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Sol skilfully carries a vein of the prevailing interest through the Harmonic nights. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The armored cruiser was the particular development of the antagonistic views prevailing among naval architects. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All over the world the close of the sixteenth century saw monarchy prevailing and tending towards absolutism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Sir Thomas Liverseege had fallen a victim to the prevailing fever at Swampton. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This view was so contrary to prevailing beliefs that Copernicus refused to publish his theory for th irty-six years. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The satisfaction of prevailing on one of the most worthless young men in Great Britain to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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