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
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
What did he put in the balance,—or what have others put in the balance, to send your passionate intentions flying up to the beam?
From Dark Hollow by Green, Anna Katharine
My child! what is there which I ought to put in the balance against her?
From Clara Hopgood by Rutherford, Mark
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.
