The fact is that Louise of Stolberg, much as her subsequent life and ways of thought proved her to be a woman of the eighteenth century, and not at all above the eighteenth century's easy-going habits and conventional ideas, was a kind of woman rare at all times and rarest of all in a time like her own, With a kindly and affectionate temper, the immense bulk of her nature, the overbalance, the top-heaviness of it, was intellectual; and intellectual not in the sense of the ready society intelligence, so common among eighteenth-century women, but in the sense of actual engrossing interest and in abstract questions and ideals.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
Gerard, who was standing on the box, cracking the long whip, and also lending his voice to swell the chorus, was suddenly seen to overbalance, sway, and topple over into the water, disappearing immediately.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
If his evil deeds and thoughts and words overbalance the good, then he goes straight down to the place of darkness and torment.
"The Critic in the Orient"
George Hamlin Fitch