Moreover, the noisy careers of Liszt and Thalberg serve as a set-off to the noiseless one of Chopin.

So much doubt should be relieved by the exhibition of some universally admitted fact as a set-off.

Against these disadvantages the very moderate hotel bills which Mr Margary was called upon to settle may have been some set-off.

As a set-off against this, no woman can have a child entirely her own except by incurring what are called "social disadvantages."

As though it were in some sense a set-off against something not delightful elsewhere.