Succumb

Examples

• Yet Caroline refused tamely to succumb. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I felt that I must soon succumb, nor was there any retreating now that I had gone this far. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• After a while they succumb; they die. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The look was far worse to resist than the frantic strain: only an idiot, however, would have succumbed now. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Lady Steyne, after the music scene, succumbed before Becky, and perhaps was not disinclined to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The inventor of the detective-fever had completely succumbed to that irresistible malady. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• None of the sheep that had been given the preventive treatment died from the crucial inocu lation; while all those succumbed which had not received previou s treatment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And so they held out through the age of hardship between the Mesozoic and Cainozoic ages, to which most of the true reptiles succumbed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it is not to be supposed, because the new thing succumbs to the old infections, that is the final condemnation of the new thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The bird succumbs to gas earlier than a man and thus indicates a dangerous condition of the atmosphere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Ludwig