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Sentences ending with balance

Yet I heard you read it--without losing my balance. [5]
Now, she felt, was the crisis at hand: the moment when her future, and his was to hang in the balance. [9]
His young soul was darkened, embittered, thrown off its balance. [10]
The young knight, usually so trim, looked disordered and, as it were, thrown off his balance. [10]
They unsettle him; they throw him off his balance. [5]
For a distance there was shelving where foothold might be had by a fearless man with a steady head and sure balance. [11]
The fate of the Soudan is in the balance. [11]
Mechanically he did the same: his pulses beat more calmly, by degrees the visions faded from his senses, he saw and heard once more, and his brain recovered its balance. [10]
You planned with the artist's mind; and brought forth what's to your honour and credit-- and the piling up of your bank balance. [11]
Besides this the terror which he had gone through, as well as the consciousness that he had been guilty of a lie and had daringly deceived his kind master, had upset a soul hitherto untainted by any subterfuge and had thrown him off his balance. [10]

Short sentences using balance

We have recovered our balance. [4]
The account don't balance. [5]
What shall balance Alo's death? [11]

Sentences containing balance two or more times

The receipts during the year from all sources, including loans and balance in the Treasury at its commencement, were $901,125,674.86, and the aggregate disbursements $895,796,630.65, leaving a balance on the 1st of July, 1863, of $5,329,044.21. [7]
For the first quarter of the financial year ending on the 30th of September, 1861, the receipts from all sources, including the balance of the 1st of July, were $102,532,509.27, and the expenses $98,239733.09, leaving a balance on the 1st of October, 1861, of $4,292,776.18. [7]

More example sentences with the word balance in them

The balance of your letter, I say, pleases me exceedingly. [5]
His ledger, take-it-altogether, would not show a balance on the right side; but perhaps the losses on his books will turn out to be credits in a world where accounts are kept on a different basis. [5]
Learning goes usually with uprightness, broad views, and humanity; so the learned voters, possessing the balance of power, became the vigilant and efficient protectors of the great lower rank of society. [5]
I'll put these with the balance in the safe. [4]
Your grandfather's balance with me was something less than one thousand five hundred, as I made him a remittance in December last. [9]
He it was who had weighed in the balance the fifteen applicants and found them wanting. [9]
We see just what we were when they were our peers, and can strike the balance between that and whatever we may feel ourselves to be now. [6]
The eyes, however, were of an inquiring, debating kind, that moved from one thing to another as if to get a sense of balance before opinion or judgment was expressed. [11]
And the truth was, that the fates of both prisoner and counsel had been weighed in the balance that sweltering August day. [11]
The remainder, $2,257,065.80, was the balance from last year. [7]
That old life was lonely and primitive, but it had its compensating balance of bright sun, wild animal life, and an air as vivid and virile as ever stirred the veins of man. [11]
But his mind was gradually recovering its balance, and he was able to hold some conversation with those about him. [6]
And Mr. Plimpton was beginning to have the unusual and most disagreeable feeling of having been weighed in the balance and found wanting. [9]
Kutuzov did not understand what Europe, the balance of power, or Napoleon meant. [2]
Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. [2]
If you wish to hold the balance of power, it is important for you to attend to and secure the vote of Mason also: You should be sure to have men appointed delegates that you know you can safely confide in. [7]
She had been thrown off her balance, or poise, as Charley had, for an unwonted second, been thrown off his pose, and her thought could not pierce beneath the surface. [11]
She felt as though she must fall, but she reasserted her strength, and slowly regained her balance, withdrawing her hands from those of Al'mah. [11]
Of the receipts there were derived from customs $102,316,152.99, from lands $588,333.29, from direct taxes $475,648.96, from internal revenue $109,741,134.10, from miscellaneous sources $47,511,448.10, and from loans applied to actual expenditures, including former balance, $623,443,929.13. [7]
This being done there remains as actual receipts $720,039,039.79 and the actual disbursements $714,709,995.58, leaving the balance as already stated. [7]
If either of them tottered, his whole 'new man' prompted him to recover his balance before he fell to the ground.--But Orion! [10]
It varies with the years, and occasionally the balance is favorable, as in 1879, when the expenditure was L 63,400,000 and the revenue was L 64,400,000. [4]
The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. [5]
Now, if ever, the fate of the Truro Franchise hung in the balance, and, perhaps, the rule of Jethro Bass. [9]
Gratitude knocked at the door of her heart but it was instantly met by bitter defiance; what was one hour of happiness in the balance against a ruined lifetime? [10]
Victory hangs in the balance, and a false move will throw it to either side. [9]
Mrs. Pomfret declared that she had only left out Victoria because her presence might be awkward for both of them, but Mr. Crewe waved this aside as a trivial and feminine objection; so Victoria was invited, and another young man to balance the table. [9]
In our time that finger has multiplied itself into ten thousand thousand implements of research, challenging all mysteries, weighing the world as in a balance, and sifting through its prisms and spectroscopes the light that comes from the throne of the Eternal. [6]
He was so tall that he had a little difficulty in keeping his balance, and his hat was set upon the back of his head to preserve his equilibrium. [4]
Heliodora, to be sure, had enough for both, and she and her husband would not forget them in their will; but there was more than this in the balance now: it was a matter of life and death. [10]
In the hall stand the scales; the dog headed ape, the animal sacred to Toth, guides the balance. [10]
Meanwhile, that father's son was once more imperilling his life, once more putting England's prestige in the balance in the Soudan, from which he had already been delivered twice as though by miracles. [11]
His neighbors would snatch the balance of his hair off in a second. [5]
Her own mother slept on, in the corner of the room, unconscious of the terrible verdict hanging in the balance. [11]
That his guest should reject the one hope of escape left him was, according to Mr. Cooke, only to be accounted for by a loss of mental balance. [9]
At one moment she is microscopically intellectual, critical, scrupulous in judgment as an analyst's balance, and the next as sympathetic as the open rose that sweetens the wind from whatever quarter it finds its way to her bosom. [6]
The sacrifice which she intended to impose upon herself would weigh far more heavily in the balance than a handful of beautiful tresses, and would comprise sovereignty and life. [10]
The balance was sent to Mr. Emerson October 7, and acknowledged by him in his letter of October 8, 1872. [6]
The Interviewer had sense and tact enough not to offer him an orange, and so shift the balance of obligation. [6]
I turned to see the effect on the balance of the company and found the reddest-faced set of men I almost ever saw. [5]
The Avocat's heart sank within him, for he saw that a life was hanging in the balance. [11]
If the ambassador retires without having gained his purpose the balance will be greatly--enormously, in our favor, and it will cease to be a folly to believe in the success of our cause. [10]
On Sunday she remained absent from the service--for the second time in years--and though she did not actually suffer there was a dead-lock of feelings deep within her, and the waiting for a balance to fall on either side was almost as bad as suffering. [13]
When you have reached the point in bicycling where you can balance the machine tolerably fairly and propel it and steer it, then comes your next task--how to mount it. [5]
In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but--I do not know how to express it... not by a balance of political power...." It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract conversation. [2]
This balance Mr. Pembroke was palpably anxious to wipe out, or at least to reduce. [9]
The balance of our table, as the reader has no doubt observed, has been deranged by the withdrawal of the Man of Letters, so called, and only the side of the deficiency changed by the removal of the Young Astronomer into our neighborhood. [6]
It had not once cost her an effort to maintain her balance. [10]
Again, walking out on the bowsprit of the 'Oriole' while she stood watching me from the dock, I lost my balance and fell into the water. [9]
They knew how on his own estate he never made mistakes of judgment; that he held the balance carefully, and that his violences, rare and tremendous, were not outbursts of an unregulated nature. [11]
Now if you offset these discreditable features by the creditable ones summarised in a preceding paragraph beginning with the words, 'These facts are all on the credit side,' and strike a balance, what must the verdict be? [5]
In the excitement of the moment it seemed to him that Egypt was hanging in the balance. [11]
A just balance of the mental powers is a great deal more likely to be useful than any single talent, even were it the power of observation; in excess. [3]
Here was nothing of that admired disorder, that medley of incongruous things which marked the room she had just left; but perfect order, precision, and balance of arrangement, the most peaceful equipoise. [11]
On one side of it, far beneath, lay the village, huddled together as if, through being close compacted, its handful of humanity should not be a mere dust in the balance beside Nature's portentousness. [11]
Material loss weighed nothing in the balance with other losses she was sustaining. [13]
If you had not that difficulty, I still should think it an even balance whether you would not better remain in Chicago, with such a chance for copartnership. [7]
Mr. King could not be mistaken in thinking Irene's manner a little constrained and distant to him, and less cordial than it was to Mr. Forbes, but the mother righted the family balance. [4]
The balance of my estate, whatever it may now be, or may prove to be hereafter, I leave to Pierre Napoleon, third son of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, of whom I cherish a reverent remembrance. [11]
The lady discovered Mr. Flint's balance in the bank, and had proceeded to use it for her own glorification, and the irony of it all was that he could defend it from everybody else. [9]
They often lead, mowing in the hayfield; they carry heavy baskets on their backs; they balance on their heads and carry large washtubs full of water. [4]
Women may be more likely at first to be upset than men, but they will recover their balance when the novelty is worn off. [4]
A very small matter might turn the balance which held life and death poised against each other. [6]
They make and mar without rhyme or reason--set business by the ears, alter the gold reserve, disturb the balance of trade, and nobody ever suspects it. [9]
He did not loose his fingers, but stood still and listened intently, for there was scarcely a sound of the plain, the river, or jungle he did not know, and his ear was keen to balance 'twixt the false note and the true. [11]
Myrtle Hazard no longer required the physician's visits, but her mind was very far from being poised in the just balance of its faculties. [6]
A mind a little off its balance, one which has a slightly squinting brain as its organ; will often prove fertile in suggestions. [6]
David's mind, with its equity, its balance, and its fire--what might it not have accomplished in shepherding such a cause, guiding its activity? [11]
The lady attempted it, but lost her balance, in the wind and the motion of the car, and fell! [5]
Judge Logan thinks it will take the balance of $20 to carry a case through. [7]
But I consider it over 2,000 miles from St. Jo to Carson, and the first 6 or 800 miles is mere Fourth of July, compared to the balance of the route. [5]
The new party is organizing in from three to four hundred constituencies, and at the next general election is not unlikely to gain control of the political balance of power. [9]
If the law is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, how much hourly remorse and torture, such as Jo's, should balance the eye or the tooth or the life? [11]
Then came the interpretation: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. [11]
In a few instances it will leave the establishments of great pet churches undisturbed, but in all others only a handful of priests will be retained to preach and pray, a few will be pensioned, and the balance turned adrift. [5]
Be sure that in this thing I have entered into the weigh-house, and I hold the balance, and ye shall be well satisfied. [11]
I remember that in the sermon preached by Dr. Grazer after Dr. Holyoke's death, one of the points most insisted upon as characteristic of that wise and good old man was the perfect balance of all his faculties. [3]
Lives perhaps were in the balance, but she was a woman, and who could tell what slight influences might turn the scale! [11]
To keep friendship in proper order, the balance of good offices must be preserved, otherwise a disquieting and anxious feeling creeps in, and destroys mutual comfort. [14]
By and by I found the table--with my head--rubbed the bruise a little, then rose up and started, with hands abroad and fingers spread, to balance myself. [5]
I've heard you hold the balance pretty fair 'twixt your patients and the undertaker. [11]
The master weighed himself at the grocer's on a platform balance, some ten days after he began keeping the school. [6]
His eye beheld her now as the goddess with the scales in her hand, weighing and accepting with outward calm the verdict of the balance . [9]
She could not hear them, but she could see them, and the whirling vortex fascinated her; she could not help turning her head to follow their flight; she grew giddy and she was forced to try to recover her balance. [10]
He never would have made a break like that if he hadn't been a little off his balance. [5]
She had paid half the cruel balance demanded; Byng and his friends had paid the rest without her knowledge; and her husband had been set free. [11]
These former companions had become superior beings, they could not help showing it, and their presence destroyed the Balance of Things. [9]
Rudyard would be grateful for time to get his balance again. [11]
The balance was gone from the general character and his natural force was like some great gun loose from its fastenings on the deck of a sea-stricken ship. [11]
I would not give this experience for all the balance of the trip combined. [5]
Diseases which arose from excess of heat were to be attacked by cooling remedies; those from excess of cold, by heating ones; and so of the other derangements of balance. [3]
Let me see--$9,640 from $20,000 salary $2;400 added--ah yes, the balance due the company from yourself and Mr. [5]
Preaching and propaganda fail unless it can be brought home to a people that something dear to their innermost nature is at stake, that the fate of the thing they most desire, and are willing to make sacrifices for, hangs in the balance. [9]
When dinner was ended, a renewal of the bridge game was proposed, for it had transpired at the dinner-table that Mrs. Rindge and Hugh had been partners all day, as a result of which there was a considerable balance in their favour. [9]
At last it drank blood, but as he got it home, he suddenly reeled blindly, lost his balance, and lurched into the water with a groan. [11]
I suppose that--what do you call it?--the balance of trade is against us, and we have to send over cash and beauty. [4]
This was a difficult effort to her old joints and Doris was forced to clutch at the door-post in order not to lose her balance. [10]
The sledge-hammer had descended on Jean Jacques' head, and also had struck him between the eyes; and it is in the credit balance of his ledger of life, that he refrained from useless outcry at the moment. [11]
This morning I deposited it to Mr. Emerson's credit in the Concord National Bank, and took a bank book for him, with his little balance entered at the top, and this following, and carried it to him with your letter. [6]
There was little danger that any such announcement would throw her mind from its balance after the inward conflict through which she had been passing. [6]

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