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
The blotting of the sun, the desolation of an universe is a trifle when put in the balance with an immortal spirit.
From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles
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
"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
This ended our bee hunting and we now put in the balance of the time, while in camp, with the traps.
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
