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Dulcie, with the sharpness of her little face, divested of all its counterbalancing roundness a keen, worn little face since the day it had smiled so confusedly but generously out of the scurvy silk in the church at Redwater was a sweet-looking woman under her care-laden air.
No ill without a counterbalancing advantage An industry peculiar to Italy Italian honesty Buffalo Bill at Naples The Prince and the straw-coloured gloves The Riviera A tapestry Nice Its flowers Notre Dame The chateau My gardener A pension of ugly women Horses and their hats Antibes Meeting of Honore IV. and Napoleon The Grimaldis Lerins, an Isle of Saints A family jar Healed. That was not all.
Young he was, almost boyish; yet counterbalancing this was a seriousness of expression that almost approached somberness as he stood waiting until his machine should be made ready for the continuance of his journey.
As if this were not enough, the architect also constructed, to the left of the main building, a court, five chambers of columns, various passages and dark chambers in short, an entire wing branching off at right angles to the axis of the temple proper, with no counterbalancing structures on the other side. These irregularities become intelligible when the site is examined.
His daughter writes: 'In the course of the drudgery which he went through he received a great counterbalancing pleasure from the following passage, which he chanced to meet with in a letter to the committee, written by a gentleman to whom he was personally a stranger: "Mr. Edgeworth was the first who pointed out the great benefit of springs in aiding the draught of horses.
Its meetings were about a table with a top like a chessboard, which led to calling the members who sat, "Barons of the Exchequer." He also wisely created a class of lesser nobles, upon whom the old barons looked down with scorn, but who served as a counterbalancing force against the arrogance of an old nobility, and bridged the distance between them and the people.
So far as Zobeir was concerned, there were two counterbalancing considerations; on the one hand, Evelyn Baring now declared that he was in favour of the appointment; but, on the other hand, would English public opinion consent to a man, described by Gordon himself as 'the greatest slave-hunter who ever existed', being given an English subsidy and the control of the Sudan?
Figuratively speaking, dear Toby, it may, for aught I know, said my father; but the spring I am speaking of, is that great and elastic power within us of counterbalancing evil, which, like a secret spring in a well-ordered machine, though it can't prevent the shock at least it imposes upon our sense of it.
Nay, even those who have effected inventions that change the face of the earth the printing-press, gunpowder, the steam-engine, men hailed as benefactors by the unthinking herd, or the would-be sages, have introduced ills unknown before, adulterating and often counterbalancing the good. Each new improvement in machinery deprives hundreds of food.
This last treatise contained the results of certain experiments, then new in chemistry, which were adduced in support of a theory I entertained as to the re-invigoration of the human system by principles similar to those which Liebig has applied to the replenishment of an exhausted soil, namely, the giving back to the frame those essentials to its nutrition, which it has lost by the action or accident of time; or supplying that special pabulum or energy in which the individual organism is constitutionally deficient; and neutralizing or counterbalancing that in which it super-abounds, a theory upon which some eminent physicians have more recently improved with signal success.
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