preponderated

The verdict of the jury sufficiently shows how the evidence preponderated in their minds.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Upon the whole, the sweet greatly preponderated over the bitter, so Miss

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Both were charged as being concerned in a murder, of which the profits were stated at seven millions of francs; and for some days the scandal of this trial preponderated over the absorbing importance of the last elections held under Charles X.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Family-reasons, in that case, preponderated, as well at Rome, as at Florence.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

As this latter opinion preponderated, Daniel did not find that he was treated with any marked respect in his native town.

Lady Anna 2004

Bedouin Sheikhs, was not hereditary; though it remained in the same tribe as long as the power of that tribe preponderated.

Travels in Arabia 2003

If water preponderated in it, cold ought to solidify it; if earth preponderated, then fire ought to do so.

Meteorology 2002

How great was my joy to see the well known Signature of my Friend after a Melancholy Solicitude of many months in which my hopes and fears alternately preponderated.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1782 1973

Other characters in the ship I shall not describe; some were good, some bad, and some indifferent, but I am happy to remark the first-named preponderated.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

Commines, an honester writer, though I fear, by the masters whom he pleased, not a much less servile courtier, says that the virtues of Louis XI. preponderated over his vices.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various