It was enough that Moses should set his claims upon a level with those which Pharaoh reverenced: the king was then bound to weigh their relative merits in other and wholly different Scales.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
When we put unhappiness in one side of the Scales, each one of us lays down in the other the idea he has of happiness.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
On that dreadful journey the Scales had suddenly fallen from my eyes, and with the same ingenuity which I had formerly exercised to confirm my own errors, I now sought out every argument expressly to torment myself with the conviction that I alone was responsible for the loss of this much cherished being.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse