Which preposition to use with balanced
Mark works hard for four or five months, and lays around loose the balance of the year.
Darrow balanced in front of him with a thin smile.
And I think you will find a balance on the right side.
It is the balance between human industries and human needs which I hold for my part of the world, and which others are continually trying to wrest from me, and which I must keep by all means, fair or foul.
"To balance against work" "Excuse me.
There is some disturbance of the lime balance with an increased excitability of the vegetative nervous system.
A bronze clock ticked roundly from the mantel, balanced at either side by a pair of blue-glass cornucopias with warts blown into them.
he said, and turned away; for at that moment, watching keenly as he spoke the action of a delicate combination of movements, all made and balanced to a hair's breadth, there had come to him suddenly the idea of something which made it a hundredfold more strong and terrible.
"You may go through it if you wish," said the owner, "but here is the balance for the last day of the year.
But while nothing serious clouded my name, I had more to blush for than to pride myself upon in my career as prince of good fellows,and these men knew it, both of them, and let it weigh in the scale already tipped far off its balance by coincidences which a better man than myself would have found it embarrassing to explain.
He held a dollar towards him balanced on his forefinger.
There, in some sunny glade among the pines, he will ensconce himself in the thickest branches, and whir off as you come near, sailing down the opening with his body balancing from side to side.
Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates; or on the balance among the several orders of the state.
" These three parties were so equally balanced in the balia named by the parliament, on December 2, 1494, that it soon became impossible to carry on the government.
Threepence in the pound, 3 pounds 14 shillings 9 pence," leaving a balance due of 291 pounds 19 shillings 3 pence.
The distinguishing marks of good "form" are an easy balance without dependence on the sticks (see below), an erect position, except on steep slopes, and a narrow single spoor in soft snow.
And as the human life is properly said to be chequerwork, no doubt but a person of her prudence will make the best of it, and set off so much good against so much bad, in order to strike as just a balance as possible.
For a long time the scales of victory seemed balanced between them; but at length the tall man, who had great self-possession, and who played with consummate skill, won the game: soon after which he rose up, and making a graceful, respectful bow to the rest of the company, he retired.
" "I'll get you in a jiffy," said Tuppy, recovering his balance after a swift clutch at my neck.
Apropos of complications arising out of the late Navy Appropriation Law, a daily paper states as follows: "The decision of the Attorney General now forces him to turn the balance into the Treasury, and the sailors have to go unclothed.
But a woman like that is divine, Henry!" Lord Nick swayed a little, setting himself in balance like an animal preparing for the leap.
He is so balanced with wisdom that he floats steadily in the midst of all tempests.
It was an enormous bunch of fire-red and yellow flowers, which Kaetheli held out to him, who with one foot on the step was balancing over the colonel, and called to Erick: "Here, Erick, you must take a nosegay from the garden with you, and when you come back, be sure you come and see us, do not forget.
Smaller national units than the 14 1-3 million Jews have been able to do Germany vital injury or service, and, while the Jews have no national state, their dispersion over the whole world, their high standard of culture, and their peculiar abilities lend them a weight that is worth more in the balance than many larger national masses which occupy a compact area of their own.
As the trap came nearer, the man could be seen distinctly; he was reading, with one leg balancing across the knee of the other.