All about, balancing on unsteady craft, their heads hooded in black, were the omnipresent moving-picture-machine operators at work.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The lust of conflict was upon him that night, and, balancing himself ankle-deep in water on the trunk that heaved and dipped beneath him, he swung the trenchant steel.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
A little way down the chalk-pit a fox-terrier puppy was balancing its fat body on a ledge of chalk and looking piteously up and down.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole