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

Besides, there are all these later happenings, all your help to be put in the balance in your favour.

From Against Odds A Detective Story by Lynch, Lawrence L.

It was a lowery morning, and Bill proposed that we go together and look after a line of traps on Salt Run, and then put in the balance of the day still-hunting deer.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

The love of Spanish women for bull-fights was neatly glossed over, and various absurd charges against American women were put in the balance against it.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson

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 Siringo, Chas. A.