For she was very ill, and very ill-tempered, consequent upon her complaint-a weakness and Succumbing of her fort, after a long and combined attack made by veal cutlets, new bread, and port wine.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
His good cheer was infectious, and Flamby found herself to be Succumbing to a sort of pleasant excitement as she passed along by the rows of well-groomed doors, each of which bore a number and a neat name-plate.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
She could listen to the celestial thrilling of the strings, the soft lamenting, without in the slightest degree Succumbing to the player-not even when Freke, playing a wandering accompaniment, like another air from the one he was singing, would sing some of Heine's sea-songs, in which she could almost hear the sound of the wind as it rose and wailed and died upon the waves.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell