The Nuremberg court succumbed indeed to the united efforts of its political opponents, among whom were many nobles of an evangelical spirit, but all the more energetically did these press the interests of the Reformation.
A man of less indomitable will would have succumbed and become a permanent invalid.
It was just about this time that Joseph Humphreys, Frohman's seasoned general stage-manager, succumbed to the terrific strain under which he had worked all these years, as both actor and producer.
Early on the voyage Miss Doro succumbed to seasickness and the project was abandoned.
They succumbed to what was an overwhelming and compelling personality.
Occasionally we find very distinct traces of an older sun-worship, which has succumbed to later forms, introduced, according to vague tradition, from Anahuac.
At the climax of this fresco of the Last Judgment one of the participating singers succumbed in public to a shrieking frenzy of nervous prostration!
Scarcely liberated (as he thought) from Henrietta, Berlioz succumbed to another woman.
Seized in a moment of activity, certain only that they were in hostile hands, and hurried, blind and helpless, to an unknown doom, they might have been pardoned had they succumbed to despair.
But even he had succumbed more than once during the last twelve hours to gusts of rage, provoked as much by the futility of his suffering as by the cruelty of his persecutors.
Next came superstitious fears; the poor battered Italians, demoralized by fierce human foes, succumbed entirely to the moral subjugator, superstition.
Happily my torments did not last long, for the calfsuccumbed the second day of its ride through the desert.
Mr. and Mrs. Helmore and several of his party had succumbed to fever, and the survivors had retired.
Lacerda was a man of scientific attainments, and Governor of Tette, but finding Cazembe at the rivulet called Chungu, he unfortunately succumbed to fever ten days after his arrival.
The old poor-house in Carmarthen Street was hemmed in by the united forces of left and right, and it easily succumbed without even a show of resistance.
It succumbed this time, but only in a partial way, for its pillars and a portion of its walls are as stalwart as of yore.
The old McSweeney lime-stone building, which came to a point on the corner of Union and Dock Streets, early succumbed and was a mass of crumbling ruins.
Men, horses, rows of stoutest building material, steam, water, all succumbed and went down like chaff before the whirlwind.
While everything that was combustible had succumbed to that intense heat, there was still enough half-fused and warped metal, fractured iron plate, and twisted and broken bars to indicate the kitchen and tool shed.
Notwithstanding his many close calls and his persistent good fortune, poor John finally succumbed to a combined assault of smallpox and bad whiskey.
The mother of the child--a most estimable lady--soon succumbed to her great sorrow and died broken-hearted.
This building, except a part of the foundation, has long since succumbed to time.
Most of their animals had died from lack of food, and the few that had not succumbed to starvation had to be sold in exchange for corn.
Aunt Jane succumbedto the wiles of the newcomer, whose sympathy at Katherine's isolation resulted in various invitations to a "bite of lunch with just me, alone.
What would you do if you found that the patient upon whom you are operating has not succumbed to the anaesthetic, Cuthbert?
But, the third summer, Aunt Jane succumbed to a touch, of gout, and had not the courage to go away from the old doctor who had attended her family for two generations.
His wrinkled, gnarled hand smoothed the leg of his overalls, which had originally been the orthodox blue of all self-respecting overalls, but long since had succumbed to Paddy's washtub and vigorous muscles.
There were surgical instruments galore on board, practice makes perfect, and if my patients succumbed after an operation, well, every dog has his day, and the post hoc propter hoc argument has been proved to be unsound.
Hester was burdened with an intolerable sense of the shameful falsehood she had told; Annie, guilty in another matter, succumbed at last utterly to a sense of misery and injustice.
No one repented with more apparent fervour than she did, and yet no one so easily succumbed to the next temptation.
Three days after this was cured, another made its appearance, which speedily succumbed to the same remedies.
Perhaps her poor mind had never been developed, and so she had succumbed to the current of circumstance.
Most of the men had blinding headaches, Kyla's slashed side must have given her considerable pain, and Kendricks had succumbed to mountain-sickness in its most agonizing form: severe cramps and vomiting.
Jay, motionless, saw bitterly that the old man had succumbed to the youngster's deliberate charm.
I have always succumbed to what I have most dreaded, and every reluctance has turned in me to an irresistible force of attraction.
The Marquise de Gange and her abigail having succumbed to the scourge, the inmates of the chateau must flee, or endure ostracism--they would be banned like lepers.
In France too liberty succumbed with the Public Law of Europe (1648).
Then the cumbrous Spanish vessels succumbed to the attacks of the swift war-ships of Holland and England, and the sun of the Spanish world-dominion set as quickly as it had risen.
Thus far I hadsuccumbed suginely to this imperious domination.
The modesty of a Socrates or a Cato might have succumbed before such a rebuff.
The poor lady succumbed early to the hardships of the Indiana backwoods; and the few facts that are known concerning her brief life set forth but a meager story.
Vogel succumbed to the climate about a year afterwards, on a journey to Adamawa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succumbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
