His victims were repeatedly heard to remark that these flagellations partially counterbalanced the lack of exercise which he felt very keenly in his sedentary life.
Possessed as she was of many eccentricities, her excellencies far counterbalanced them.
The discouraging outlook in Europe is more, far more, than counterbalanced by our wonderful progress in the United States.
Would her glorious faith ever be neutralized or counterbalanced by faith in a power opposed to God?
The contemporary writers of Germany were also read and translated, and henceforth in some degree they counterbalanced French influence.
The portion below the snow-line is always being diminished; that above it is always augmenting; thus the loss of the one is counterbalanced by the gain of the other; and thus the continuity of glaciers is maintained.
The slight vapor pressure in the boiler is counterbalanced by a column of water in the eliminator pipe.
The relatively high cost of heat as generated through electric energy is in a great measure counterbalanced in the flat-iron by high efficiency in its use.
Although in numbers, both of men and vessels, the Sultan's fleet was superior to the fleet of the League, this superiority was more than counterbalanced by other important advantages possessed by the Christians.
Once we were inside, a twenty-yard, counterbalanced wall of rock was lowered across the entrance.
There, in perfect security, only to be reached by the diving chamber that could be sealed at will by the twenty-yard, counterbalanced lock, the Quabos would be even more protected than in their former runways.
As to the migration of plants from mountain to mountain not being so probable as to remote islands, I think that is fully counterbalanced by two considerations:-- a.
This fact may be detailed as follows: There cannot be found, in all creation, a single law which is not counterbalanced by a law exactly contrary to it; life in everything is maintained by the equilibrium of two opposing forces.
But the services rendered by the ascetics in imprinting on the minds of men a profound and enduring conviction of the importance of chastity, though extremely great, were seriously counterbalanced by their noxious influence upon marriage.
Pope "hoped" for a future life of intellectual enjoyment devoid of evil, but the heaven of the gospel is equally as necessary to be counterbalanced by a hell, as the existence of a God requires the balancing support of a devil.
The excellent arms of the Almagrians counterbalanced the odds of numbers; but the royal partisans gained some advantage by striking at the horses instead of the mailed bodies of their antagonists.
But he had other qualities, which more than counterbalanced the good resulting from excellent parts and attainments.
But, notwithstanding this show of reconciliation, the general thought the present a favorable opportunity to remove his brother from the scene of operations, where his factious spirit more thancounterbalanced his eminent services.
Besides, the knife, still in his right hand, made him awkward and somewhat counterbalanced the advantage his superior strength gave him.
There was no need for a brake, for his weight sufficiently counterbalanced the weight in the other car; and soon he saw the cliff rising out of the cloud depths and the old familiar drum going round and round.
The escape of Abidan seemed counterbalanced by the capture of Jabaster.
The slaughter of the Karasmians was great, but their stern character and superior numbers counterbalanced for a time all the impetuosity of the Hebrews and all the energy of their leaders.
Hence, ingoing vocal sounds arecounterbalanced by outgoing; the same as ingoing thoughts or thoughts produced by external vision are counterbalanced by outgoing, or thoughts produced by internal vision, etc.
But his lack of size was counterbalanced by great physical activity and sharp intelligence.
The woman was dead beyond all doubt, but death is counterbalanced by life.
Houses there were, however, in the then despised neighbourhood of Piccadilly, of high value; but it arose from their intrinsic magnificence, which counterbalanced the disadvantages of situation.
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