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Could the amount of each be balanced, I suspect the latter would much preponderate."

One element may preponderate here; and another there.

Caribbean faces now preponderate on the pavements.

They are good and useful in the composition; they must be mischievous if they preponderate so as virtually to become the whole.

And in balancing his faults and his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate.'

In recent years neighborhoodism has been growing in NY, particularly where brownstones rather than highrises preponderate.

But beyond North Platte, Neb., nearing Ogallala, the West begins to preponderate, to win out over the Midwest.

It is evident, however, that the gravities of the body, and of the bulk of water displaced, are very nicely balanced, and that a trifle will cause either to preponderate.

Nobody desired a collision, save perhaps the reckless Leary; but peace and war trembled in the balance; and when the ADLER, at one period, lowered her gun ports, war appeared to preponderate.

Best Actor awards preponderate for men in their late thirties to mid-forties; for Best Actress, the swell is in the thirties-and yet "29 is the most common age to win Best Actress."

The abbé was a free-thinker, for a man ostensibly of the cloth: Helvétius quoted his remark that, if all the good and all the evil done in the name of religion were weighed together, the evil would preponderate.

I attended service twice at the Episcopal church, where the service was beautifully read and sung; but in a city in which men preponderate the congregation was mainly composed of women, who fluttered their fans in a truly distracting way.

It is only by force that vast communities, dispersed through great distances of space, can be kept together; but now there was no longer either the necessity of self-preservation or the pride of aggrandisement to make one state desire to preponderate in population over another.

Now other bodies are severally light and heavy, and evidently in them the attributes are due to the difference of their uncompounded parts: that is to say, according as the one or the other happens to preponderate the bodies will be heavy and light respectively.

In those layers and beds of tuff that have been spread out over considerable tracts of country and which are most frequently encountered among the sedimentary rocks, smaller fragments preponderate greatly and bombs more than a few inches in diameter may be absent altogether.