It was like a balance scale, weighing something, in this case Singledon's words.

Mat, placing his own left eye on a balance scale.

The balance scale is such a simple device that its usage likely far predates the evidence.

A cabinet was set there, but it wasn't on balance scales.

He put a weight on the balance scale and shook crackers onto the other side.

Tomorrow was a balance scale, gripped in the hand of Fate.

"I gather your own balance scale might not tilt the same way."

He put the tube in a balance scale with another of the same make.

The two sides of a balance scale are close enough that the objects experience similar gravitational fields.

No mere mortal could be put beside Jesus on a moral balance scale.