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“The casts are hollow except the tail, and are entirely self-balanced, as in this model,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2020

“It has been charged,” the reporter said, “that your horses are not self-balanced, but that they are cast of heavier metal in the hind quarters and are fastened by the feet to the pedestal.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2020

Then his spirit, brooding over the abyss, permeated Chaos with vital warmth, until its various components sought their appointed places, and earth "self-balanced on her centre hung."

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Doctor Wiseman is a serious man, self-balanced and grave——" "Grave!

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes

Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo