Importation of expensive Eastern luxuries, normally overbalancing exports, produces a drain of specie to the Orient, that reservoir to which the precious metals seem naturally to flow, and from which they do not readily return; so that to maintain the gold supply and prevent a fatal appreciation of money value has been a serious problem in both ancient and modern times.
"Beginnings of the American People"
Carl Lotus Becker
There is, therefore, no gladness without its overbalancing sorrow.
"The Crack of Doom"
Robert Cromie
She spoke to him rapidly and softly, coaxing him as I could tell full well, although I could not follow her words; and in a minute or two the little fellow obeyed her, and turned and stretched himself almost to overbalancing out of her arms, and half-dropped the fruit on the bed by me.
"The Grey Woman and other Tales"
Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell