The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking in Tongues] Reference

A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SELLING OF SEX] Reference

Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians] Reference

We have called witnesses on this point alone, and have more than counterpoised the evidence produced upon the opposite side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

Any remaining undissolved can be filtered off on a counterpoised filter paper, and heated in a water oven until absolutely dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

Far too much tedious descriptions of the world counterpoised against some difficult to imagine (read poorly described) action scenarios.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton] Reference

It is counterpoised, we know, against the competing narrative of "the worst is behind us" or "this will be a mild correction" and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Picture] Reference

At such moments our life is divided, and so to speak distributed over a pair of scales, in two counterpoised pans which between them contain it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within a Budding Grove] Reference

Add weights until the pans are counterpoised; this will be indicated by the needle swinging nearly as many divisions on one side of the scale as on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference

But that was not what held them counterpoised in this intensity of anger and hostility, so strange to both of them, and causing them both such indignant pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Disposition] Reference

C6. 1 – 3. (a) Satraps; to be counterpoised by (b) military governors in the citadels, and (c) visitors living at court, but possessed of lands in the provinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyropaedia] Reference

Let us suppose that 1 lb. of air at 39° Fahr. = 500° absolute, is contained in a non-conducting cylinder of 1 foot area and 12½ feet deep under a counterpoised piston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference

The lots, therefore, counterpoised each other pretty fairly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference

In the heavenly kingdom, spiritual law and spiritual liberty stand counterpoised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The pleasure she enjoyed in their society was fully counterpoised by that she imparted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference

Unopposed, it sweeps every thing before it; but, counterpoised, the waters become calm, safe, and regular.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference

Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh, are more than counterpoised by the heart rending butchery of Fredericksburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

The specialists would grow to be intolerable, were they not counterpoised to some degree by the people of general intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Teacups] Reference

What is stupidly said of Shakspeare, is really true and appropriate of Chapman; mighty faults counterpoised by mighty beauties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

Powders, &c., should not be weighed directly on the balance; a counterpoised watch-glass or metal scoop (fig. 25) should be used.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

And as the personal qualities of these princes thus counterpoised each other, so did the advantages and disadvantages of their dominions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary] Reference

The memorable incidents which had lately happened scarcely counterpoised my new sensations or diverted my contemplations from the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference

While we support HR 676 as the most advanced demand in the current debate, it should not be counterpoised to a Medicare-like public option.    From Wordnik.com.  [CPUSA Front Page] Reference

The government of Carthage, (530) like that of Sparta and Rome, united three different authorities, which counterpoised and gave mutual assistance to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference

Along some parts of the line we observed the corduroy road (trees laid close together), and gates formed of long poles counterpoised by a thicker part at the other end.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey in Russia in 1858] Reference

Add now to the counterpoised scale, one and a half ounces avoirdupois, and a fourpenny piece; if the bottle prove the heavier, the guano is, in all probability, adulterated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers] Reference

The weight of the entire, although amounting to fifteen tons, was so skilfully counterpoised, that the tube could with ease be raised or depressed by two men working a windlass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

Munshi Premchand is counterpoised by Khaleda Hussain.    From Wordnik.com.  [ALL THINGS PAKISTAN] Reference

Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

Standard rhythm counterpoised. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference

This "Dutch inhumanity" was counterpoised to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje] Reference

Be singly counterpoised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coriolanus] Reference