put in the balance
Example Sentences
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“We remove it. But what we put in the balance is what we can learn.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
I saw the emptiness of fame and luxury, when put in the balance against the recompense of virtue.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
We set the two bear traps in as likely places as we could find for bear to travel, and put in the balance of the day traveling through the woods in search of bear signs.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
This ended our bee hunting and we now put in the balance of the time, while in camp, with the traps.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
That morning I left the Chisholm trail and struck down the Washita river, in search of a good, lively place where I might put in the balance of the winter.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Chas. A. Siringo
