In the college itself the voting - secret and by ballot throughout - is by majority; and since this majority consists, under the actual system, of very conservative elements (the landowners and urban delegates having 8ths of the votes), the progressive elements - however much they might preponderate in the country - would have no chance of representation at all save for the curious provision that one member at least in each government must be chosen from each of the five classes represented in the college.   anvd [Please select]

Sometimes one flavour preponderated, sometimes another, and the sauce was always good.   anvd [Please select]

The former preponderate in the solid fats (butter, lard, and tallow); and the latter in the fluid ones or oils.   anvd [Please select]

The Republican upbringing and the mind have come of late years to preponderate.   anvd [Please select]

Thunder now preponderated greatly in that rumble on the western horizon, and a blaze of yellow lightning played across the surface of the pond.   anvd [Please select]

If evil preponderated in their lives, their souls passed into a long series of animals until their sins were expiated, when the purified souls, after thousands of years perhaps, passed into their old bodies.   anvd [Please select]