Balanced

Examples

• Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It is right that the best and the worst of me should be fairly balanced before that time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Your judgment is well balanced, your heart is kind, your principles are sound. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No doubt this automatic and balanced theory of government suited admirably that distrust of the people which seems to have been a dominant feeling among the Fathers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a question whether our numerical strength and resources were not more than balanced by these disadvantages and the enemy's superior position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What does it offer in comparison with, as balanced over against, some other possibility? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But it is not selfless--it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity--like a star balanced with another star. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A single cylinder engine turned the paddle wheel on one side, and was balanced by the boiler on the other side. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Beside her was a mahogany stand bearing a cast bronze lamp with an engraved globe, over which a green paper shade had been balanced. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To have a perfectly balanced ball, one that will roll true in every direction, the ball must be so turned out of the tusk that the nerve center runs exactly through the middle of the ball. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The power of masters and men became more evenly balanced; and now the battle is pretty fairly waged between us. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And he wanted to be with Ursula as free as with himself, single and clear and cool, yet balanced, polarised with her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Theoretically, a three-wire installation is evenly balanced by wiring for an equal number of lamps on both sides. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In another moment, he had Gerald swung over lightly and balanced against his knee, head downwards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And the latter state of affairs must obtain when social relationships are not equitably balanced. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And she was as if magically aware of their being balanced in separation, in the boat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But Gudrun rowed on towards the clump of trees that balanced perfect in the distance, in the golden light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Woodrow Wilson's is an elegant and highly refined intellect, nicely balanced and capable of fine adjustment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Because a man was successful in his ventures, there was no reason that in all other things his mind should be well-balanced. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The account is now favourably balanced: my creditor has accepted a composition. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For this reason, the coil can turn only until the motion caused by the current is balanced by the twist of the suspending wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Instead of suggesting a freer and better balanced activity, it is a limit set to activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This balanced ration is said to be the most nutritious food and the quickest fattener which can be given to animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Pope kept a sort of general predominance there, but he was sometimes more than balanced by a Duke of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were small figures on the green lawn, women in lavender and yellow moving to the shade of the enormous, beautifully balanced cedar tree. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Pasquale