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  • It is strange that all the memories that come have these two qualities. They are always completely calm, that is predominant in them; and even if they are not really calm, they become so.   (source)
    predominant = most noticeable
  • It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.   (source)
    predominantly = mostly
  • Oppressed, as I certainly was, upon the occurrence of this second and most extraordinary coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid exciting, by any observation, the sensitive nervousness of my companion.   (source)
    predominant = most influential or powerful
  • It didn't look like one of their dogs, not exactly, a mix of some kind, though predominantly shepherd, with a dark face, high-set ears, and a saber tail.†   (source)
  • When I lived in Iran, the country was predominantly, but not entirely Muslim.†   (source)
  • But Justin and I were the only two who actually went all the way across town to attend a predominantly white private school.†   (source)
  • The predominant colour was green.†   (source)
  • The power of the female and her ability to produce life was once very sacred, but it posed a threat to the rise of the predominantly male Church, and so the sacred feminine was demonized and called unclean.†   (source)
  • The image of the sluggish reptile gradually predominated over the image of the quick-moving bird.†   (source)
  • The dark-stained, wooden buttresses against the high, vaulted, white-plaster ceiling accentuate how well lit the church is; despite the edifice's predominance of stone and stained glass, there are no corners lost to darkness or to gloom.†   (source)
  • No locker room could have more pungent air than Devon's; sweat predominated, but it was richly mingled with smells of paraffin and singed rubber, of soaked wool and liniment, and for those who could interpret it, of exhaustion, lost hope and triumph and bodies battling against each other.†   (source)
  • She grew up in a black neighborhood that was one of the poorest and most dangerous in the country; I grew up in a safe, quiet middle-class neighborhood in a predominantly white city and went to high school with a total of two black students.†   (source)
  • It's twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when everyone has come to doubt truth, justice and God.†   (source)
  • A small group of warriors, predominantly boys and old men, accompanied them.†   (source)
  • She invariably chose predominantly Jewish public schools: P.S. 138 in Rosedale, J.H.S. 231 in Springfield Gardens, Benjamin Cardozo, Francis Lewis, Forest Hills, Music and Art.†   (source)
  • Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries.†   (source)
  • He claimed that the predominant taste of any crustacean or mollusk was that of its alimentary tract.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong is a predominantly Cantonese-†   (source)
  • Dark red predominated, as if someone had spilled a great deal of venous blood in here.†   (source)
  • Humboldt Park is a predominantly Puerto Rican community with growing numbers of Mexican immigrants and uprooted blacks and sprinklings of Ukrainians and Poles from previous generations.†   (source)
  • Crowd scenes predominated.†   (source)
  • I must reiterate, these meetings were predominantly professional in character; that is to say, for instance, we might talk over the plans for a forthcoming event, or else discuss how a new recruit was settling in.†   (source)
  • Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do.†   (source)
  • The new superpower gradually conquered all the Hellenistic kingdoms, and from then on Roman culture and the Latin language were predominant from Spain in the west to far into Asia.†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis was only predominantly a disease of the poor, Jim reasoned.†   (source)
  • A combination of Baptists, Methodists, and Roman Catholics would account for eighty percent of the county's devout, yet among the elite-the businessmen, bankers, lawyers, physicians, and more prominent ranchers who tenant the top drawer-Presbyterians and Episcopalians predominate.†   (source)
  • And yet the need did not seem to be predominantly physical.†   (source)
  • Although they represented an adequate racial mix to reach some conclusions about race, they were predominantly white.†   (source)
  • It was a weird place, the all-female society with a handful of strange men, the military-style living, the predominant "ghetto" vibe (both urban and rural) through a female lens, the mix of every age, from silly young girls to old grandmas, all thrown together with varying levels of tolerance.†   (source)
  • Of the countries where women are held back and subjected to systematic abuses such as honor killings and genital cutting, a very large proportion are predominantly Muslim.†   (source)
  • But his problems were predominantly mental.†   (source)
  • While SEALs, Marines, and Army Rangers played a role in the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, it was fought predominantly by fewer than a hundred Special Forces Green Berets, working with the CIA and a handful of Air Force combat air controllers.†   (source)
  • The twenty-eight teams were composed of high schoolers predominantly from the Northeast.†   (source)
  • Wooten, like a lot of teachers of large, predominantly freshman, survey courses, is witness to heightened dropout rates for African American students.†   (source)
  • Most seemed to glow with one predominant color, like cyan or magenta or yellow, accented by the other colors of the rainbow.†   (source)
  • A predominantly white county means a predominantly white jury.†   (source)
  • Deserted from Col. Brewer's regiment, and Capt. Harvey's company [said a notice in the Essex, Connecticut, Gazette], one Simeon Smith of Greenfield, a joiner by trade, a thin-spared fellow, about 5 feet 4 inches high, had on a blue coat and black vest, a metal button on his hat, black long hair, black eyes, his voice in the hermaphrodite fashion, the masculine rather predominant.†   (source)
  • The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.†   (source)
  • The taller of the two, in a predominantly green shirt and white cotton slacks, was studying Joe through a pair of binoculars.†   (source)
  • The predominant fuselage characteristic was unpainted metal.†   (source)
  • Labov's theory has been elaborated in the research of Stanford University linguist Penelope Eckert, who studied language changes originating among high-school students in a predominantly white suburb of Detroit.†   (source)
  • You may not agree with this, Renny, but I've always believed that the predominant burden is mine, if it is a question of feeling at home in a place.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the evidence indicates that proemancipation convictions did predominate among the leaders and fighting soldiers of the Union army.†   (source)
  • Yes, the big, blond type predominated heavily, but there were Vikings who looked like they'd just come in from South America, Africa, or China.†   (source)
  • When Omar alKhattab, a close confidant of Muhammad, conquered Jerusalem in 639 with a small band of Arab cameleers from the Hejaz and Yemen, it was a predominantly Christian city.†   (source)
  • And, in fact, unless one chose to make a fairly thoughtful survey of the reading matter extant, there were few, if any, certain indications that the former occupants had both reached voting age within the predominantly juvenile dimensions of the room.†   (source)
  • So the predominant feeling was one of hopelessness and despair.†   (source)
  • In the confusion of Liz's mind, in the turmoil of shame and grief and fear, there predominated the appalling memory of Leamas as she had last seen him in the courtroom, sitting stiffly in his chair, his eyes averted from her own.†   (source)
  • But hate-filled, hysterical trebles predominated: "The nerve!†   (source)
  • The crowd streaming through the pen were Asiatics— Japanese, Indonesians, Siamese, some East Indians, a few Eurasians, but predominantly South Chinese.†   (source)
  • I alternately laughed and howled as the one or the other idea grew predominant.   (source)
    predominant = more influential or powerful
  • I'm a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defense, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail.   (source)
    predominance = power or influence
  • The wind there is from the east predominantly.†   (source)
  • The shorter of the two possible cops, the one wearing the predominantly red shirt, was not in sight.†   (source)
  • Predominantly, we concerned ourselves with very happy memories, and those two hours we spent together in the tea lounge were, I would say, extremely pleasant ones.†   (source)
  • The likelihood of getting sick increases greatly, though, for those who suffer from malnutrition or various diseases, especially from HIV, itself by now predominantly a disease associated with poverty.†   (source)
  • When I became a sophomore, the spark which set it off occurred during a football game between Mark Keppel's Aztecs and a predominantly white school called Edgewood.†   (source)
  • …I heard folks talk of the love/ hate relationship between blacks and Jews I understood it to the bone not because of any outside sociological study, but because of my own experience with Jewish teachers and classmates-some who were truly kind, genuine, and sensitive, others who could not hide their distaste for my black face— people I'd met during my own contacts with the Jewish world, which Mommy tacitly arranged by forcing every one of us to go to predominantly Jewish public schools.†   (source)
  • Wilson Junior High was still predominantly White, but both Curtis and I became outstanding students there.†   (source)
  • While Curtis went on to Southwestern High School, I enrolled in Hunter Junior High, a predominantly Black school with about 30 percent of the students White.†   (source)
  • His once-low grades had been climbing nicely for more than a year, but he was enrolled in a predominantly White school, and Mother had no doubt that the counselor was operating from the stereotypical thinking that Blacks were incapable of college work.†   (source)
  • There were many exceptions but, very broadly speaking, the aristocracies of the kingdoms were drawn from the populations of cow-owning Tutsis, and their inferiors or dependents were predominantly Hutu farmers.†   (source)
  • Predominantly Protestant, Holland was known for its tolerance, for allowing religious freedom to thousands of European Jews, French Huguenots, and other Christian sects.†   (source)
  • There is a woman in the first block of the open market who sells snake entrails as aphrodisiacs, predominantly cobra.†   (source)
  • There were many exceptions, and it wasn't as if "Hutu" and "Tutsi" described genetic predispositions for plants and cows, but very broadly speaking, the aristocracy was drawn from the population of cow-owning Tutsis, and their inferiors or dependents were predominantly Hutu farmers.†   (source)
  • Before Roe v. Wade, it was predominantly the daughters of middle— or upper-class families who could arrange and afford a safe illegal abortion.†   (source)
  • Like a Mondrian, the furniture was stark in its simplicity, the colors bold and predominantly red, black and deep green; the chairs, sofas and tables only vaguely resembled chairs, sofas and tables-they seemed more suitable for use in spacecraft.†   (source)
  • Clinton was overruled, and though unconvinced, he departed dutifully for Rhode Island, where his expedition seized Newport without opposition and the predominantly Quaker inhabitants seemed quite happy to live in peace under his protection.†   (source)
  • He ordered officers into predominantly Latino neighborhoods and told them to enforce all traffic laws.†   (source)
  • While the presence of Afghan National Army and coalition (predominantly conventional U.S. Army or Marine Corps) forces at these "frontier" outposts was intended to stabilize the regions, they also provided security for regional projects such as building roads, schools, and medical clinics; digging wells; and teaching sustainable farming techniques.†   (source)
  • This may seem an obvious mode for most, but I think a surprising number of people prefer to imagine themselves through a filter of associations and links, perhaps Mary Burns being an example of a person who predominantly identified herself in this manner, through the lives of her daughters and her late husband, her country club and her charities, and then, possibly, through her attempted relations with Sunny, and with me.†   (source)
  • And the Inwood section of upper Manhattan where they live is a mixed neighborhood, predominantly blacks and Latinos, especially from the Dominican Republic (and a good bit of crime), but also a clinging minority of Irish and Italians and even a few Jews.†   (source)
  • A simple black woman on the verge of inheriting what might be the largest fortune this county has ever seen, and the decision rests with a jury that's predominantly white.†   (source)
  • Predominantly in the Southwest, but all over the country, Latino men and women wash restaurant dishes, make motel beds, care for children, clean hospital rooms, mow lawns and trim hedges, and do small construction projects.†   (source)
  • In Malaysia, Thailand, and China, export-oriented industries like garments and semi-conductors predominantly employed young women who had previously been working in less productive family farms or doing household work.†   (source)
  • He followed her into a cheery, predominantly white and yellow living room with chintz drapes and pillows.†   (source)
  • Though some coastal settlers in Virginia and North Carolina brought their strong "r" from southwestern England, all but one of the big cultural and population centers in colonial America were settled predominantly by English people from areas where the "r" was not pronounced.†   (source)
  • But without doubt, Christianity gradually became the predominant philosophy of life.†   (source)
  • Lavishly manufactured colour was everywhere with bright red the predominant magnet.†   (source)
  • In most, if not all, agriculture is predominant.†   (source)
  • She insisted that the Camelot theme be predominant.†   (source)
  • In the conittia tribuia, all citizens could vote, so the plebeian interest predominated.†   (source)
  • In New York, Puerto Ricans are the predominant and oldest of the Hispanic groups.†   (source)
  • Feelings rather than facts predominate.†   (source)
  • That is why, of all the me and all the gods and religious practices that predominated in Sumer, only Asherah is still going strong today.†   (source)
  • All through the Middle Ages, the Arabs were predominant hi sciences such as mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and medicine.†   (source)
  • No, Hegel had died ten years earlier, but his ideas were predominant in Berlin and in many parts of Europe.†   (source)
  • Exactly so, although this had already become a predominant aspect of literature in the last decade of the nineteenth century—before Freud's psychoanalysis was known.†   (source)
  • The individual in modern urban society had become 'the public,' he said, and the predominant characteristic of the crowd, or the masses, was all their noncommittal 'talk.'†   (source)
  • She could tell he longed to disobey her order, but as much as he wanted to shield her from harm, loyalty had ever been Jormundur's predominant trait.†   (source)
  • Albriech had inherited both his father's size and Elain's honey-blond hair, which made him an oddity in Carvahall, where brown was the predominant hair color.†   (source)
  • I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.†   (source)
  • The berries predominated; they were in everything from blueberry soup to raspberry sauce to thimbleberry jelly.†   (source)
  • "The status of women, more than other factors that predominate in Western thinking about religious systems and politics, links Islam and the democracy deficit," writes the scholar M. Steven Fish.†   (source)
  • "To attempt to introduce discipline and subordination into a new army must always be a work of much difficulty," Reed wrote to his wife, "but where the principles of democracy so universally prevail, where so great an equality and so thorough a leveling spirit predominates, either no discipline can be established, or he who attempts it must become odious and detestable, a position which no one will choose."†   (source)
  • Martial music, drums and trumpets predominating, swelling to crescendos that Bourne could only imagine were deafening within the echoing confines of the huge structure.†   (source)
  • When a country is mostly farmers and has equal representation, farm interests will usually predominate in the government.†   (source)
  • By 2050, Chinese will remain predominant, with Hindi-Urdu of India and Arabic climbing past English among people 15-24, and Spanish nearly equal to it.†   (source)
  • The fact that "devils" are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination will help you.†   (source)
  • His successor, the second Archbishop, was also an Auvergnat, from Father Latour's own college, and the clergy of northern New Mexico remained predominantly French.†   (source)
  • Miss Osmond, indeed, in the bloom of her juvenility, had a hint of the rococo which Rosier, whose taste was predominantly for that manner, could not fail to appreciate.†   (source)
  • Make it predominantly a view of THEIR relation and the trick is played: you give the general sense of her effect, and you give it, so far as the raising on it of a superstructure goes, with the maximum of ease.†   (source)
  • Three-beat dactylic feet go against the grain of the predominantly iambo-trochaic ( v -v -v ….†   (source)
  • The stichic form of English verse that is closest to the hexameter in length and in its affinity for long narratives is the medieval "fourteener," a predominantly iambic ( v - ) line broken into phrases of four and three stresses.†   (source)
  • In modern tragedy the same predominance exists.†   (source)
  • To avoid it, he would find some way of snubbing the predominance of the arts.†   (source)
  • How easy it was, thought Winston, if you did not look about you, to believe that the physical type set up by the Party as an ideal-tall muscular youths and deep-bosomed maidens, blond-haired, vital, sunburnt, carefree — existed and even predominated.†   (source)
  • Since the blood disorders were, in the long run, the predominant factor in the disease, some of the Japanese doctors evolved a theory as to the seat of the delayed sickness.†   (source)
  • The 'boy' motif still predominated.†   (source)
  • He was downtown that afternoon when Christmas' name first flew up and down the street, and the boys and men--the merchants, the clerks, the idle and the curious, with countrymen in overalls predominating--began to run.†   (source)
  • He accepted many cases in which he had little interest owing to the first instinct being predominant.†   (source)
  • Religion predominated in the house; not only in its practices the daily mass and Rosary, morning and evening in the chapel— but in all its intercourse.†   (source)
  • Around some people the space is their space, and when you want to approach them it has to be across their territory so that how you are to behave to them is mainly under their control, and then it is always astonishing to learn that they suffer, and perhaps worse than others, from their predominant ideas.†   (source)
  • And though novels predominate, novels themselves may very well have changed from association with books of a different feather.†   (source)
  • It occurred both to Julia and myself simultaneously that we were allowing curiosity and surprise to predominate; now we congratulated him in gentler tones from which mockery was almost excluded.†   (source)
  • But that failing is too rare for one to complain of it, since without some mixture of the kind the intellect seems to predominate and the other faculties of the mind harden and become barren.†   (source)
  • "I thought you were dying," I said, conscious then, as I had been ever since I arrived, of the predominating emotion of vexation, rather than of relief, that I had been bilked of my expectations of a grand tragedy.†   (source)
  • And I went on amateurishly to sketch a plan of the soul so that in each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain the woman predominates over the man.†   (source)
  • In his prayers there was one note that always predominated.†   (source)
  • In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.†   (source)
  • Here a dull red color predominated over the fading yellow.†   (source)
  • It was evil predominating in evil hearts.†   (source)
  • In the library, in spite of weightier presences, Lawrence Lefferts predominated.†   (source)
  • Certainly the beast was predominating—the beast at the bottom of the glass.†   (source)
  • He stared, and his predominating expression was surprise.†   (source)
  • They all talked more or less, but the deep voice of Stewart predominated over the others.†   (source)
  • The predominant hues were a black and a bright vermilion.†   (source)
  • After the works of art, natural rarities predominated.†   (source)
  • Light and youthful colours predominated in Pyotr Petrovitch's attire.†   (source)
  • But it is not interest which predominates in the noble nature of poets.†   (source)
  • "Is she dead?" said the voice that predominated over every other within him.†   (source)
  • What the father would say if Maggie was lost, was a question that predominated over every other.†   (source)
  • The feeling of injury on her own behalf could not predominate at that moment.†   (source)
  • He no longer believed what Zeena had told him of the supposed seriousness of her state: he saw in her expedition to Bettsbridge only a plot hatched between herself and her Pierce relations to foist on him the cost of a servant; and for the moment wrath predominated.†   (source)
  • She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her.†   (source)
  • A few of these blankets were of solid color, most of them had bars of white and gray and red, the last color predominating.†   (source)
  • Several persons were talking at once, and Victor's voice was predominating, even over that of his mother.†   (source)
  • He stopped, his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.†   (source)
  • His predominant fear—not from any especial fondness for her but from the habit of propriety—was that his wife would learn of the affair.†   (source)
  • Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.†   (source)
  • Beaufort, after all, had not managed to "tide over"; but by setting afloat the rumour that he had done so he had reassured his depositors, and heavy payments had poured into the bank till the previous evening, when disturbing reports again began to predominate.†   (source)
  • …would be turning on the spit one of those chickens, such as she alone knew how to roast, chickens which had wafted far abroad from Combray the sweet savour of her merits, and which, while she was serving them to us at table, would make the quality of kindness predominate for the moment in my private conception of her character; the aroma of that cooked flesh, which she knew how to make so unctuous and so tender, seeming to me no more than the proper perfume of one of her many virtues.†   (source)
  • This patchwork was made of all sorts of odds and ends—pretty bits of silk and velvet; but the coarse pieces that were not pleasant to touch always predominated.†   (source)
  • Fear was their predominating sense.†   (source)
  • But joy predominated.†   (source)
  • Humor, their predominant trait when a person grew to know them, saved Madeline from finding their hardness trying.†   (source)
  • But this was rare; for, on the days when, in spite of all that she had to do, and of her dread of what people would think, she did actually manage to see Swann, the predominant quality in her attitude, now, was self-assurance; a striking contrast, perhaps an unconscious revenge for, perhaps a natural reaction from the timorous emotion which, in the early days of their friendship, she had felt in his presence, and even in his absence, when she began a letter to him with the words: "My…†   (source)
  • In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.†   (source)
  • Instantly there followed a mad scramble—hoarse yells, over which that awful roar of Gulden's predominated—and the bang of guns.†   (source)
  • It was a strain on his nerves just to try to detect a hint of his usual enjoyment—and that repulsive leathery taste predominated.†   (source)
  • Here there could be no mistaking the predominance of personality—the unanimous "Oh!" of the spectators was a tribute, not to the brush-work of Reynolds's "Mrs.†   (source)
  • In the mixture of revolution and conspiracy chat Naphta had served up to his hearers, Herr Settembrini responded, the obscurantist element had predominated in a most unsavory fashion.†   (source)
  • She was "perfect" to every one: subservient to Bertha's anxious predominance, good-naturedly watchful of Dorset's moods, brightly companionable to Silverton and Dacey, the latter of whom met her on an evident footing of old admiration, while young Silverton, portentously self-absorbed, seemed conscious of her only as of something vaguely obstructive.†   (source)
  • She saw that the whole weary work of rehabilitation must begin again, and against far greater odds, if Bertha Dorset should succeed in breaking up her friendship with the Gormers; and her longing for shelter and security was intensified by the passionate desire to triumph over Bertha, as only wealth and predominance could triumph over her.†   (source)
  • The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone.†   (source)
  • Well, as to our looks, the English and Jutish blood, which on the whole is predominant here, used not to produce much beauty.†   (source)
  • She tried to recollect some instance of goodness, some distinguished trait of integrity or benevolence, that might rescue him from the attacks of Mr. Darcy; or at least, by the predominance of virtue, atone for those casual errors under which she would endeavour to class what Mr. Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years' continuance.†   (source)
  • Stern, unyielding, dogged, and impenetrable, Ralph cared for nothing in life, or beyond it, save the gratification of two passions, avarice, the first and predominant appetite of his nature, and hatred, the second.†   (source)
  • Ever busily winding the golden thread that bound them all together, weaving the service of her happy influence through the tissue of all their lives, and making it predominate nowhere, Lucie heard in the echoes of years none but friendly and soothing sounds.†   (source)
  • He was not in the least lofty or aristocratic, but simply a merry-eyed, small-featured, grey-haired man, with his chin propped by an ample, many-creased white neckcloth which seemed to predominate over every other point in his person, and somehow to impress its peculiar character on his remarks; so that to have considered his amenities apart from his cravat would have been a severe, and perhaps a dangerous, effort of abstraction.†   (source)
  • Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs, and there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.†   (source)
  • Mr. Guest and Mr. Wakem were on friendly dining terms, and the attorney liked to predominate over a ship-owner and mill-owner who was a little too loud in the town affairs as well as in his table-talk.†   (source)
  • Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, as usual, bitterness predominated.†   (source)
  • His predominant sensation at that moment might be expressed in the following words, "Well, there is no rehabilitating myself now.†   (source)
  • Yes, and I say to you, if you are really strong, really superior, really pious, or impenetrable, which you were right in saying amounts to the same thing—then be proud, sir, for that is the characteristic of predominance.†   (source)
  • That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected to.†   (source)
  • He weighed the two angers in his brain—that of the cardinal and that of the queen; that of the cardinal predominated enormously.†   (source)
  • Sir James had no idea that he should ever like to put down the predominance of this handsome girl, in whose cleverness he delighted.†   (source)
  • The child was sleeping soundly; but her imagination of possibly disastrous events at her home, the predominance within her of the unseen over the seen, agitated her beyond endurance.†   (source)
  • The sportive sunlight—feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene—withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright.†   (source)
  • But a single feeling was predominant at that instant, and Mabel withdrew to weep, scarcely conscious of what had occurred.†   (source)
  • Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it.†   (source)
  • I never had experienced such painful and pleasurable emotion at one time, and in my own heart I did not know which predominated.†   (source)
  • The observer abroad on this occasion, once attracted to the wearing of colors, would have very shortly decided that there were three in predominance—green, white, and the mixed scarlet and gold.†   (source)
  • This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.†   (source)
  • See them in the bright sunlight, interrupted every now and then by rolling masses of cloud, ascending the slope from the Broxton side, where the tall gables and elms of the rectory predominate over the tiny whitewashed church.†   (source)
  • Then the good predominated.†   (source)
  • Amazement was, of course, predominant.†   (source)
  • His eye, which was contracted with inward anguish, gleamed on the persons of those whose breath was his fame; and the latter emotion for an instant predominated.†   (source)
  • To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions, predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.†   (source)
  • High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sparsit's white stockings were of many colours, green predominating; prickly things were in her shoes; caterpillars slung themselves, in hammocks of their own making, from various parts of her dress; rills ran from her bonnet, and her Roman nose.†   (source)
  • I know that these gratifying social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood nothing else to be referred to in the first standing toast of the society: which ran "Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good feeling ever reign predominant among the Finches of the Grove."†   (source)
  • There are words consisting of consonants only, as NRRLLS; others, on the other hand, in which vowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, UNEEIEF, or the last but one, OSEIBO.†   (source)
  • The democratic principle, on the contrary, has gained so much strength by time, by events, and by legislation, as to have become not only predominant but all-powerful.†   (source)
  • Sorrow, deep, heart-felt sorrow, however, was the predominant emotion, and this was betrayed in a manner not to be mistaken.†   (source)
  • This power cannot be based on the predominance of moral strength, for, not to mention heroes such as Napoleon about whose moral qualities opinions differ widely, history shows us that neither a Louis XI nor a Metternich, who ruled over millions of people, had any particular moral qualities, but on the contrary were generally morally weaker than any of the millions they ruled over.†   (source)
  • Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Mr. Elton predominated, sometimes the Martins; and each was occasionally useful as a check to the other.†   (source)
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