Tested in this way, a body would, of course, weigh precisely the same anywhere; for if the gravitation of the body is altered, so is also in equal proportion the gravitation of the Counterpoising weights.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
Attached to the suspending machinery are two Counterpoising weights, which being less heavy than the waggon laden with coal, do not impede its descent.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
He who could know what was the pasturage My sight had in that blessed countenance, When I transferred me to another care, Would recognize how grateful was to me Obedience unto my celestial escort, By Counterpoising one side with the other.
"Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete"
Dante Alighieri