And what are we — ripples on the tides of a birthless, deathless, equipoised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference

Just equipoised between the rack of cloud and a twilit land we slid down a hill of air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

There is nowhere perfect health, save when the passions are well regulated, harmonized, and equipoised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

If after every decision the will reverted to a state of indecision and oscillation equipoised between good and evil, the basis for confidence in our fellow men would be gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

He will be a self-centered, equipoised, and ever master of himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

In New Hampshire, par - ties are so nearly equipoised that out of 30 or '?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech delivered by the Hon. Henry Clay, in the House of representatives of the United States. on Friday, the eighth day of January, 1813] Reference

Thus holding two admirers exactly equipoised, will our readers accuse her of coquetry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion.] Reference

Following it came two shorter novels—nouvelles—also equipoised between the hemispheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8. Henry James] Reference

When power was thus nicely equipoised, there was a natural tendency to avoid conflicting issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

And what are we -- ripples on the tides of a birthless, deathless, equipoised Creative-Purpose -- but little works of Art?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference

But what can be exacted from our government, after repeated trials, before various jurisdictions, none of which can be charged with any symptom of impropriety, and upon a subject, which, to say no more, is at least equipoised?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference

But if, reverend Judges, you deem this equipoised, indifferent lanthorn to be indeed blameworthy for having shown in the same moment, side by side, the skull and the fair face, the burdock and the tiger-lily, the butterfly and toad, then, most reverend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference

Tissandier that on one occasion when aloft he threw overboard a chicken bone, and, immediately consulting a barometer, had to admit on "clearest evidence that the bone had caused a rise of from twenty to thirty yards, so delicately is a balloon equipoised in the air.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation] Reference

But at the close of any arbitrary division of time, such as the last day of the week or the year, the mind is disposed to deeper meditation, and the mental burden, whose weight has been equipoised by worldly six-day cares, rolls back upon the mind with leaden oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference

The Query of your correspondent recalls the one said to have been put by King James to the members of the Royal Society: "How is it," said the British Solomon, "that if two buckets of water be equipoised in a balance, and a couple of live bream be put into one of them, the bucket containing the fish does not overweigh the other?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

So equipoised, that others 'fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems] Reference

And, equipoised o'er tower and market-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses] Reference

While a whole minute equipoised he ftands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry] Reference

Then slowly, without reason, that icy fear passed into a feeling, not of joy, not of peace, but as if Life and Death were exalted into what was neither life nor death, a strange and motionless vibration, in which one had been merged, and rested, utterly content, equipoised, divested of desire, endowed with life and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference