Individuals whose seesaw is weighted on the side of blaming outside influences too often come to feel it is too much work and quit therapy because they cannot accept the need to make choices and decisions in spite of past influences.
Both sides of the battle line now settled down to the same round of seesaw battles of the preceding midsummer; attacks and counterattacks; trenches captured and recaptured; here a hundred yards won, there a hundred yards lost.
A hose fed by an old-fashioned seesaw pump was being played on the flames.
He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact.
Defn: The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
Defn: To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
Seesaw has gone to the doctor's to try if he can borrow a wick, and mother let me have a pint of oil, but she says she won't give me any more.
Seesaw was not with them, so she hastened her steps in order to secure company on her homeward walk.
Seesaw followed them and handsomely offered to see them "apiece" down the road, but Rebecca declined his escort with such decision that he did not press the matter, but went to bed to dream of her instead.
As she replaced the dipper Seesawpromptly raised his hand, and Miss Dearborn indicated a weary affirmative.
The punishment was bad enough, but to be coupled in correction with Seesaw Simpson was beyond human endurance.
When, having obtained permission, she walked to the water pail in the corner and drank from the dipper, unseen forces dragged Seesaw from his seat to go and drink after her.
On Thanksgiving the lamp arrived in a large packing box, and was taken out and set up by Seesaw Simpson, who suddenly began to admire and respect the business ability of his sisters.
Seesaw was pale, flaxen haired, blue eyed, round shouldered, and given to stammering when nervous.
And Thumb, in his kindness, and perhaps to ease his own spirits, too, broke out in his great seesawvoice into the Mulgar journey-song.
Flushed and smiling, with her red mouth gurgling delightedly, and a white wool lamb clasped in her arms, the adorable child was certainly worth any seesaw of destiny, any disillusioning experience of marriage.
Life has been a seesaw with prosperity at one end of the plank and poverty at the other.
All at once, the working arm of the big seesaw stopped with a rude jerk that caused a number of girls aboard to give vent to cries of alarm.
He seemed to forget that there was no possible way in which any one inside the car could manage to effect their escape so long as the great arm of the giant seesaw was elevated in the air.
In most other parts of the continent, the seesaw between the sea and the land has gone on steadily from the first, and has been the chief means of the upbuilding of the land.
Had not this seesaw of land and ocean taken place, there could have been no continental growth.
Yes, I know we have to go; but we can go after we've had another seesaw just the same, can't we?
And maybe it was Sandy who ran in the yard and took the pocketbook when Sue and I were having a seesaw out in the barn," suggested Bunny.
You know if you get off a seesaw without telling the boy or girl on the other end what you are going to do, somebody is going to be bumped hard.
That's why we came in," the boy explained, and he told how they had been playing with the seesaw when the strange animal jumped into the Brown yard.
It's just a sort of thin bench, and a seesaw board can easily be put across it.
And from that dreary seesaw I could never escape, except through the gates of dreamless sleep, the death in life; for even in our dreams we are still ourselves.
If it waits for the political seesaw by which both parties avoid responsibility, there will be small chance of a navy.
To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
As it was imagined that the seesaw action of the hand operative was in some respects more effectual than the uniform rotation of a gig-mill, this was attempted to be imitated by an alternating movement.
H is the guide bar, which has a slow traverse or seesaw motion, sliding in slots at the top of the legs B, where they support the bars G.
The walking beam was connected by means of a connecting rod to a crank on a shaft that carried a flywheel, and the seesaw motion of the beam was converted into rotary motion of the wheel.
