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 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.
"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
My child! what is there which I ought to put in the balance against her?
From Clara Hopgood by Rutherford, Mark
She could not conceive any evil which could result from this proceeding, that deserved to be put in the balance against those which, under the roof of her kinsman, appeared unavoidable.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
