Thorn-bushes, bristling like hedgehogs and thriving arrogantly, everywhere predominate and with their prickly tangles obstruct or forbid the path.

New England influences everywhere predominate.

Gentle rulers were contemned as weak; wild passions, severity and cruelty, everywhere predominated.

Her beauty and external graces are only indirectly glanced at; we see 'her visage in her mind'; her character everywhere predominates over her person: