Why then does the balance preponderate to the life-side for a certain length of time, and then go over to the opposite side?
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
Provisions and the manufactures, like a pair of scales, will not preponderate together; but as weight is applied to the one, the other will advance.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Every sweet brings its bitter, every light its shade; love is cut short by death:"- "I must say-or choke in silence-'Howsoever came my fate, Sorrow did and joy did nowise,-life well-weighed,-preponderate.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr