Sentence examples similar to had succumbed before from inspiring English sources

If he had not done this when he did it, Rome and the Greco-Roman world might have succumbed, before the beginning of the Christian era, to barbarian invaders in the West and to the Parthian Empire in the East.

Which is why the government's current travails have left it feeling both angry and a little scared.Well before Stephen Byers had succumbed to what everyone outside government had assumed to be the inevitable, the alarm bells had been ringing in Downing Street.

Before the next morning three of the wounded had succumbed to their injuries, bringing the death toll in what were already being called the Llanelli Riots to six.

The Liv territories had succumbed by 1207.

"She had succumbed to the smoke".

All because Gregory had succumbed to the ravages of alcohol.

Just before the start of the event, Mouton received news that her father had succumbed to cancer in his house in Nice.

pestis had succumbed to the infection.

By daybreak, the other had succumbed.

Apparently, before getting to the names, however, the Party leaders had decided to list the sinful influences to which we had succumbed.

How glad my aunt's maid, Miriam, would have been to have succumbed to pneumonia before she had to witness my reduced circumstances!