Shelley raises in his poem a very marked contrast between the death of Adonais (Keats) as a mortal man succumbing to 'the common fate,' and the immortality of his spirit as a vital immaterial essence surviving the death of the body: he uses terms such as might be adopted by any believer in the doctrine of 'the immortality of the soul,' in the ordinary sense of that phrase.

Those Moranges lived in everlasting dread of seeing their daughter marry a needy petty clerk; succumbing to that irresistible fever which, in a democracy ravaged by political equality and economic inequality, impels every one to climb higher up the social ladder.

But in gradually succumbing to the vulgar misunderstanding, playing up to the caricature, and finally assimilating to the crude and obsolescent methods of men, the suffragettes have been throwing away their own peculiar glory, their characteristic contribution to history and politics.

But she was a woman, and had persistency; she had no intention of succumbing to a priest, and that priest her subject.

They even crossed the Po and made an attempt to rouse the Insubres once more to arms (560); they blockaded a consul in his camp, and he was on the point of succumbing; Placentia maintained itself with difficulty against the constant assaults of the exasperated natives.

Naturally, he lost strength, and became hourly in danger of succumbing to the vast difficulties which confronted him.

The wine he had consumed and his always immoderate use of the baths kept him from succumbing at once, and instead he vomited; this caused him to suspect the attempt and he uttered some threats.

She was weak, but she was not altogether foolish; and she had no idea of succumbing to this new influenceof yielding herself up to this conqueror, who seemed to take her life into his hand as if it were a bit of thistledown.

On being brought forward, he at first pretended, with considerable pertinacity, that he did not know the woman; but afterwards, gradually succumbing to the force of truth, when he saw the instruments of torture called for and preparing, he confessed that it was so.

"Yes, I rather like color," said Jack, succumbing to temptation, though he felt that the heir to great responsibilities ought to dress in the most neutral of tones.

"Eh, lass, but I was noddin' and no mistake," said the old man, struggling drowsily with the heaviness, and presently succumbing once more.

"I felt that my will was succumbing to yours, and I want to give you an answer untrammeled and uncontrolled by your will.

No state, however, is so powerful as to escape succumbing to a rival before it completes the circuit.

There has been no escaping Bloch after all, and the deadlock, if no sudden peace occurs, can end now in only one thing, the exhaustion in various degrees of all the combatants and the succumbing of the most exhausted.

If any one had told her that her grandfather had ever been supposed to be in danger of succumbing to charms such as these, she would have thought the notion an ugly example of grown-up pessimism.

That's the reason the Dutch troops had been massed here by the tens of thousandsto prevent Germany succumbing to that temptation.

Still the tawny Powhatan, like many another proud savage, showed small sign of succumbing to civilization.

I may be succumbing to the infirmities of middle age, but I do not think the present decade can produce any parallel to this list, or what is more remarkable, that the later achievements in this field of any of the survivors from that time, with the sole exception of Joseph Conrad, can compare with the work they did before 1900.

It is a hard feat achieved by Nala in that he liveth without succumbing to grief, though separated from such a wife.

Really,' Mr. Fishwick continued, his brain succumbing to a kind of vertigo as he caught himself balancing the pretensions of Sir George and Lord Almeric, 'it is a very remarkable position for any young lady to enjoy, however born.

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 often succumbing to this malady?

But the question is, how should believers make use of Christ, in such a time, to the end they may be kept from fainting and succumbing in such a storm?

Cæsar, in danger of losing a positionnot perhaps at that time of superiority, yet at least of equality with the others who were at the head of the State, and of succumbing to those who were just on the point of becoming his enemiesbelongs essentially to this category.

The older scientist grew animated, succumbing to the evidence.