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  • His determination, having been well-weighed and considered, could not be shaken.

    Ursula 2006

  • I hear wisdom urge me to marry her, and disregard every dear advantage, disbelieve every flattering suggestion, disdain every well-weighed counsel, turn and leave her?

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • The well-weighed decision of Miss Stanbury respecting the

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • State your position in cool, well-weighed words, and carry conviction with them by your manner.

    Dollars and Sense William Crosbie Hunter

  • Before presenting to the reader particular details of the cruelties inflicted upon American slaves, we will present in brief the well-weighed declarations of slaveholders and other residents of slave states, testifying that the slaves are treated with barbarous inhumanity.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Brown was one of these; and as it is our well-weighed intention to give

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Professor Lowell spoke of these matters in well-weighed and well-chosen phrases, which carried conviction of his earnestness and sincerity to the minds of his hearers; and we observed that the audience was evidently profoundly impressed by the importance of his statements.

    To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks

  • Before presenting to the reader particular details of the cruelties inflicted upon American slaves, we will present in brief the well-weighed declarations of slaveholders and other residents of slave states, testifying that the slaves are treated with barbarous inhumanity.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The ancient (no doubt) more fit for music, both words and tune observing quantity, and more fit lively to express divers passions, by the low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable.

    English literary criticism Various

  • It is time for us to close these volumes, to which we cannot even hope to have done justice, and leave them to those graver tribunals that will in due season award their well-weighed decisions.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

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