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

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

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

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