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

Skins is skins; but the skin of a human ain’t to be put in the balance wi’ the skin o’ a beaver, d’ye see?”

From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Webb, Archibald

"And as this—ah—this particular candidate was beaten by a bare majority of two or three hundred votes—" "It was me as done it!" put in the balance of power, shaking his finger at Perkins impressively.

From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by Bangs, John Kendrick

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.

The nobility of his birth was put in the balance against his poverty.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden