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 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
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 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
