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
My child! what is there which I ought to put in the balance against her?
From Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford
The nobility of his birth was put in the balance against his poverty.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
I then put in the balance of the evening cording it up—that is what I had cut.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Chas. A. Siringo
I made a stretching board from a spault I split out of a basswood log and stretched the otter skin, and put in the balance of the day in chopping wood.
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
