It is the curse of a policy of keeping up a dainty balance in a hurricane that it unmans the balancer, until at last the peacemaker resembles a juggler.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
"The balancer is working-better now-and-doesn't take-much attention-and you can lay the course-and manage-the landing.
"The Man Who Rocked the Earth"
Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood
But I've only Dinky-Dunk's bulky grain-scales, and it's impossible to figure down to anything as fine as ounces or even quarter-pounds on such a balancer.
"The Prairie Mother"
Arthur Stringer