| 1. | I told ye then he should prevail and spee. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Jennings could not prevail on him to stay long. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 4. | She resolved to prevail on her to spend a day at Hartfield. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 5. | If wishes would prevail with me. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Thy grave admonishments prevail with me. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Could not prevail with all their oratory. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | I am strong-fram'd he cannot prevail wit. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | And Troy prevails by armies not her own. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | "At last thy will prevails great Peleus' so. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 12. | Great anxiety prevails in West Surrey, and earthworks are being thrown up to check the advance Londonward.. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 13. | Such is the state of affairs which prevails among them. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 14. | The spirit of party prevails less in Scotland than in England. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 15. | friendship prevails more than the intercession of the ambassadors o. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 16. | It is the peremptory military spirit which prevails in the government of honour. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 17. | "I have heard it asserted," said John Knightley, "that the same sort of handwriting often prevails in a family and where the same master teaches, it is natural enough. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 18. | One principle prevails in the souls of one class of men, another in others, as may happe. - from The Republic by Plato |