Crossword-Solution: PREPONDERATE 12 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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.

The motives of action or silence are now equally balanced; nor can I pronounce, in my most secret thoughts, on which side the scale will preponderate.

According as the shares of guilt or virtue shall preponderate, the sentence will be pronounced, and all, without distinction, will pass over the sharp and perilous bridge of the abyss; but the innocent, treading in the footsteps of Mahomet, will gloriously enter the gates of paradise, while the guilty will fall into the first and mildest of the seven hells.

That class makes its opinions preponderate as universally as its will, and even those who are most inclined to resist its commands are carried away in the end by its example.

Where these two classes greatly preponderate, their bent shapes popular sentiment to such an extent as to bear down any possible divergent tendency in the inconsiderable middle class, and imposes a devout attitude upon the whole community.