Perhaps, when a slave wished to remain British, and his case was nicely balanced between the claimants and the counter-claimants, Carleton was a little inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

" Brown, balancing cautiously, walked the intervening fence like an amateur on a tightrope.

In justly balancing the powers of the Federal and State authorities difficulties nearly insurmountable arose at the outset, and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable.

My father sprang up, balancing himself lightly and accurately against each sudden roll.

" Thoughtfully he balanced the pistol he was still holding on the palm of his hand, and half unconsciously examined the priming, while I watched him, half with misgiving, half with a reluctant sort of admiration.

Unsteadily balancing himself on his legs, and shaking his cane at me, he cried: "What is the meaning of this, sir?

Happily they are balanced by gigantic caution, else you would be in imminent danger of subverting the liberties of your country.

But the thing balances up beautifully, as I am a blessing to her, a new interest in her monotonous life, and she never lets me forget how much happier she is since I came here to live.

The culprit sprang up speechless with dismay, enraged at the loss of the food he was hungry forenraged at "the fool fry-pan"enraged at the fool Colonel for balancing it so badly.

There are few Englishmen of the higher rank who do not hold London in the right hand as barely balanced by the rest of the world in the left; a judgment in which we can hardly expect Romans, Parisians, and Athenians to concur.

" For an instant Sheila quite calmly balanced the danger out of doors against the danger within.

" Anthrops snatched eagerly at the little black thing his old friend held contemptuously balanced on his fingers, but dropped it immediately.

The merchant's clerk must understand book-keeping and double-entry, and know how to arrange every item of the account under its proper head, and how to balance the whole correctly.

" "Why not?" Smith instinctively turned to look at the basket balanced daintily on the girl's knees.

" Mr. Mudge moved farther forward till he was balanced dangerously on the very edge of the chair.

All suffering seems to have descended upon her,and there are some natures whose power of enjoyment, so infinite, yet so deep as to be hidden, is balanced only by as infinite a power to endure; she learned anew, as she says, and intensely, "what a long dream of misery is life from which health's bloom has been brushed,that irreparable bloom,and how far more terrible is the doom of those in whom the nerve-life has been untoned."

Of course, when he alighted on the floor of the car, the knife had been transferred from his teeth to his left hand; and all during his progress forward the knife was being balanced delicately, as though he were not yet quite sure of the weight of the weapon.

Get ready!" He brought a Colt smoothly into his hand and balanced it dexterously, swinging it back and forth between his eyes and the target to make ready for a snap shot.

But, at the end of the Triassic period, the movement of depression recommenced in our area, though it was doubtless balanced by elevation elsewhere; modification and development, checked in the one province, went on in that "elsewhere"; and the chief forms of Mammals, Birds and Reptiles, as we know them, were evolved and peopled the Mesozoic continent.

It was difficult to apportion the representation in the state legislature so as to balance evenly the districts in the west against the parishes in the east, and accordingly there was much dissatisfaction, especially in the west which did not get its fair share.

He rose to his feet, and stood balancing himself feebly when the door to the tepee was drawn back and Oachi entered.

This shifting balance and/or imbalance with its resulting build-up and/or break-down exists geographically, biologically, sociologically.

Having offset himself, Wells as ingeniously balances his authorities, pro and con; but, the elliptical examples being allowable, he should not have said that I and others "condemn this usage altogether.

The following spring part of the French and British reinforcements were withdrawn to France, together with an Italian contingent which numerically balanced the French and British who remained in Italy.

It will prevent accidents, and until the student has mastered the mechanical movements necessary to flight, will supplement his efforts by partially balancing his weight.