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 saw the emptiness of fame and luxury, when put in the balance against the recompense of virtue.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

For herself the property, as put in the balance beside her love, was lighter than air itself.

From Evelina's Garden by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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

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 Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel