Apollonius of Tyana was delivering an oration at Ephesus, when he suddenly stopped in the middle of a sentence and beheld in a vision the Emperor Domitian at Rome, in the act of succumbing to his murderers.
Although he had many such visions, and his wife, succumbing to the contagious influence of magic powers, also foresaw more than one important event, he sternly refused to attach any weight to his own forebodings or those of other persons.
He felt on the point of succumbing to a fit of idiotic laughter.
What a genius he is to be so brilliantly diplomatic instead of succumbing to so real a misfortune," she thought.
He was on the point of succumbing to the emotion which was overcoming him, when, luckily for him, he surprised an insolent look from M.
Dozens of constables were shot dead, hundreds of Anarchists and Socialists received wounds from batons, many succumbing to their injuries, or being trampled to death by the dense mob.
So terrible was the distress already, that domestic pets were being killed and eaten, dogs and cats being no uncommon dish, the very offal thrown aside being greedily devoured by those slowly succumbing to a horrible death.
The woman survived her injuries a whole week, finally succumbing to loss of blood and peritonitis.
Recovery is quite rare when the asphyxiation has gone so far, the patients generally succumbing shortly after being cut down or on the following day.
To antagonize the god of love, or to blame my husband for succumbing to him, would be foolish.
Have I ever been angry with him for so oftensuccumbing to this malady?
Socrates died without in the least succumbing to any personal feeling, supported by the purely logical consideration that it was expedient to obey the laws of the State.
Katherine, succumbing to the sedative the doctor administered, relaxed gradually.
The assassination of the King would assure him of the couch of the Queen, and the Crown Prince, either imprisoned, or succumbing to the rigours of his treatment, would make way for the fruit of this intercourse.
As I felt myself succumbing to its fascination and beheld how he was weakening under it even more perceptibly than myself, I started from my chair, and sought to glide away before I should hear him utter a fatal acquiescence.
Sometimes there are topplings of sanguineous clouds, battles of giants hurling mountains at one another and succumbingbeneath the monstrous ruins of flaming cities.
The fear he was in of succumbing under the glory or under the vengeance of an admiral who was son of the King determined him to ruin the fleet itself, so as to render it incapable of receiving the admiral again.
And yet, these ignorant children were but succumbing to the evidence of their material senses--though small good it would do to tell them so!
She was not very young, or, at first sight, very beautiful, but she possessed a diablerie stronger than girlhood or beauty, and gossip said the Earl of Marmouth was succumbing to its spell.
Bobbs was undeniably succumbing to the influence of his potations, but Robert knew the thirst-creating properties of salted cracker, so he declined the proffered morsel.
He was succumbing to the strain placed upon his shattered nerves by the remorseless man across the table.
Do you dare to lament your lost love, Carmela, a prisoner, or even dead, when your native land is succumbing beneath the repeated blows of its oppressors?
Succumbing to terror and despair, I fell back on the sand and fainted.
How comes it, though, that the egoism of those who affirm personal interest, and always inquire of it, is nevertheless forever succumbing to a priestly or schoolmasterly (i.
One does say of a beaten man that he ought to have exerted his force more; but one forgets that, if in the moment of succumbing he had had the force to exert his forces (e.
Why, then it would not yet be at enmity with the world, and all its action would consist merely in not succumbing to the world!
And how pathetic it is," the Dean was saying, "to think of this outpost of a mighty empire succumbing so easily to those invaders from over the German ocean.
As it was, she had to be content with dwelling upon the inconvenience of Jasmine's succumbing to the malady.
That shaft, however, Satyaki cut off by means of ten arrows, in the very sight of thy son as also of the high-souled Karna, as thus rescued Dhrishtadyumna who was on the point of succumbing to Drona.
The proof is in my succumbing to the shock of hearing Oliver's name associated with this crime.
I have no sympathy with this habit some of my sex seem to have acquired of succumbing to an immediate sensation of this nature.
We'd struck this lava island, and were gradually succumbing to its intense heat.
At last darkness descended on them, and as they retired man after man dropped, succumbing to the sheer difficulty of the ground; some in their inability to see what lay in front, or else shot down by the enemy's missiles.
On the other hand, his own friends ran no danger ofsuccumbing to the enemy, as they held the cities and were numerically much stronger, and they had established their superiority in the field.
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