over-balanced

In the course of the struggle the girl over-balanced on the boxes and tins and the entire heap collapsed.

CHAPTER IV 2010

He had signed it, ‘with love’, followed by three wobbly inky kisses, that, struggling to stay in a straight line, had over-balanced and almost fallen off the page.

A BEAUTIFUL LIE • by Celeste Goschen 2008

The Pleasure I took in thus doing good, much over-balanced the

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

The storm made their feathers flutter and shiver, sometimes they almost over-balanced and had to grip with their claws, or were lifted up by gusts, but instead of hiding behind the chimney pots, they deliberately put themselves into the path of the elements.

Birds in the rain Rachel 2006

The storm made their feathers flutter and shiver, sometimes they almost over-balanced and had to grip with their claws, or were lifted up by gusts, but instead of hiding behind the chimney pots, they deliberately put themselves into the path of the elements.

Archive 2006-11-01 Rachel 2006

These inconveniences, however, were over-balanced by other agreemens.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

He clutched again; but in doing so he over-balanced himself and was hurried into some rapids, where he was knocked against some rocks, and he sank and was drowned, and his body was carried down the stream into smoother water when it rose to the surface again.

The Orange Fairy Book 2003

Mountains of ice formed by rain and snow — grand Arctic glaciers, undermined by the sea or by accumulation over-balanced — topple down upon the slightest provocation (moved by a shout, perhaps), and where they float, as this black-looking fellow does, they need deep water.

The North-West Passage 2003

As for the rest of her features, they were plain, large, and ill set; but, unless you began to catalogue them, you were hardly aware of the fact, for the eyes and power of the countenance over-balanced every physical defect; the crooked mouth and the large nose were forgotten, and the whole face arrested the attention, and presently attracted all those whom she herself would have cared to attract.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

He twisted, dumping the over-balanced Volrath and at the same time punching him hard in the face with his free hand.

Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000