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• The prevailing opinion was for additional planning time.
• He has a humour more prevailing than his curiosity, and will willingly dispense with the hearing of one scandalous story, to avoid giving an occasion to make another, by being seen to walk with his wife.
• [...]and as merciful counſels are moſt prevailing when earneſtly preſſed, ſo I got them to be of the ſame opinion as to clemency.
• I have heard generally that alderman Archer has a more prevailing and powerful influence in the commons than any other alderman, and exercises that influence ;
• Fever and dysentery are the most prevailing diseases in this division, more particularly the latter, which is one of the most destructive amongst the troops in India, and particularly so in the European constitution.
• One of the most prevailing defects in this people is their invincible indolence, and hatred of labour, which has, at all times, paralysed the government of their best princes, and impeded the success of their most brilliant enterprises.
• In Sydney at 9 am, by far the most prevailing wind is a westerly, particularly during the colder two-thirds of the year.