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
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.
My child! what is there which I ought to put in the balance against her?
From Clara Hopgood by Rutherford, Mark
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
We set the two bear traps in as likely places as we could find for bear to travel, and put in the balance of the day traveling through the woods in search of bear signs.
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
