For that Mr. Darwin did deny skill and contrivance in connection with the greatly preponderating part of organic developments cannot be and is not now disputed.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
She, with her tacit omissions, was the influence almost preponderating.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
"Everything," he declares, "in my experience-and I speak only of my own-testifies to the incompleteness of life, nay, even to its preponderating unhappiness.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr