However, it is better to temporise than to risk all and lose all.
When your flock of criminals lose everything through your exposure of their crimes, they have nothing left but religion.
I'll lose heart and have to look about me for another husband in my own rank of life.
A man doesn't lose flesh, and colour, and appetite, and self-control for nothing.
Could he but see himself in his larval state, I feel sure he would lose his self-respect.
Better be broke at once than lose him in that weed bed.
Intending to lose no time, I speedily put up my rod and my cast of three flies and placed it in the stern of the boat in order to soak the cast, then devoting my attention to the assistance of the gillie, who was getting the boat in readiness.
And, moreover, in that case the fish never seem to lose their way.
He is so strong in the water, so perfectly built for speed, that unless you handle him both carefully and skilfully you may easily lose him, even if you have brought him exhausted to the gaff.
You are inclined to lose your calmness of mental balance, to cast without sufficient care and with a half-dried fly.
In their domesticated state they lose much of the beauty which they have in the wilderness, as they do their pristine dimensions.
With each of these species which disappears we lose what may be a precious chance of adding to the small store of animals or plants which may contribute to the well being of our kind.
Must we "When we've enjoyed our ends then lose them, And all our appetites be but as dreams To laugh at in our ages?
Alone and apart, however well occupied, we lose the elasticity and dignity that come from sympathy with the aims and prospects of others.
Seeking the One amidst the many, we lose ourselves in finding the One we lost.
How had he come to lose control of himself completely?
I don't want to losetouch altogether with my ain folk.
Anyway, I'd rather lose with you than win with any one else.
Upon his first Visit, he peremptorily declared that Zadig would lose his Eye; and foretold not only the Day, but the very Hour when that woful Disaster would befal him.
I am verily persuaded, said Zadig, that you will not lose all your Money.
The first is punitive; that you shall suffer the loss of your right hand and left leg in atonement for your crime against the State; but that you shall not lose your life.
To lose our privileges would be to lose the very cornerstone of our liberty.
Barrent tried to lose it on a plateau of jagged boulders, but Max couldn't be shaken.
When the drachma was lost it did not lose itself, nor had it any consciousness that it had dropped out of its proper environment.
And how much we losebecause we do not remember, or if remembering, we do not believe!
He had not long been domiciled in those parts before the farmers and others began to lose their stock in a most unaccountable manner.
If you would touch a Novocastrian on his most sensitive spot, praise or criticise the cathedral church of St. Nicholas, and he will plume himself or lose his temper, as the case may be.
All through midsummer the Scotch rivers lose their chief attractions.
It is more dreadful far to spoil or lose a friend's book than to have our own lost or spoiled.
The capacity for the nobler feelings is easily killed, and men lose their high aspirations because they have not time and opportunity for indulging them.
Mill's Essays lose in interest by not dealing with the Darwinian hypothesis.
He has still later had magnificent opportunities, but he did worse than lose them.
The day was a bleak one, dispiriting in itself even to those who could go about the streets and lose themselves in their tasks and round of duties.
I dare not hesitate longer, lest I lose my chance to save her.
You may shock his fatherly susceptibilities, you may even lose some of his regard, but he will do the right thing by you and Arthur.
You have seen her; you have heard her; and the memory of the tale she has here told will never leave you, or lose its hold upon your sympathies or your admiration.
This the district attorney seemed to feel; but he was not an ungenerous man though cursed (perhaps, I should say blessed, considering the position he held) by a tenacity which never let him lose his hold until the jury gave their verdict.
Carl was a good man in a set-to, if there should be one, but he was apt to lose his head.
Never an hour did the operating department lose the track.
The children are never beaten, nor do the parents allow themselves to lose their tempers in rebuking them, however great the provocation may be--one remarkable result of the complete self-abnegation inculcated by their social system.
But when once the mandate is delivered, the prince must submit, or he would lose caste even with his own followers, so strongly are the Japanese imbued with respect for the ancient customs of their country.
We are met to do honor to an eminent man, who retires into private life after those services to the public which are most felt at the moment we are about to lose them.
A mighty duty, sir, and a mighty inspiration impels every one of us to-night to losein patriotic consecration whatever estranges, whatever divides.
Rochefort is a politician who was once a Liberal leader, and who has now seen occasion to lose his faith in Parliamentary government.
Do not admit an unnecessary rug, or chair, or picture, lest you lose the spaciousness, the dignity of the room.
Do not lose sight of the fact that your windows are supposed to give you sunshine and air; if you drape them so that you get neither sunshine nor air you might as well block them up and do away with them entirely.
Rather would he lose his life as a rebel, or wander an exile through the world and seek far from home a wider field for deeds of prowess, than put his free neck under the feet of the foe.
She had come to speak of a matter of importance, and had done so promptly, for her son's and Paula's conduct just now urged her to lose no time.
That he had loved her, at any rate that evening under the trees, she obstinately maintained in her own mind; to that conviction she must cling desperately, or lose her last foothold.
At the bottom Hiram again took off his shoes, holding them in his hand, so as to lose no time in following his mistress.
Her grieved and anxious spirit could indeed hardly believe him; and he begged her not to lose all hope in better days, asking her if she had true and entire trust in him.
We sorrow to lose him from our number, but we know better than to reason with--ahem!
And for this you wouldlose the passing of the Appalachian Mountains!
It was well to lie upon the hilltop and guess at the riddle of the world; now dimly to see the meaning, now to lose it quite, to wonder, to think of death.
But he is not considered immoral, he is not despised, he is not ostracized, he does not lose his social standing in the slightest degree, and when he is cured of his venereal disease he has no difficulty in getting married.
Some are forced to do it, because, if they don't, their dysmenorrhea is worse and the amount of blood they lose is considerably increased.
They lose their self-respect, and it is, on account of that, harder for them to break themselves of the habit.
A school teacher would lose her position instantly, and so would a woman in any public position.
Some patients lose their virility entirely; others remain potent, but become sterile.
They are afraid to confess to a complete lack of passion--they fear they mightlose a husband.
Yes, the man or woman who is in inferno on account of an unreciprocated or a betrayed love should lose no time in searching for a substitute love.
Some women suffer from what might be called the abortion habit; they can hardly ever carry a child to full term, but lose it in the same month or even in the same week of gestation during each pregnancy; we call this habitual abortion.
Some lose all pleasure in intercourse, and some claim to be unable to have intercourse with any woman who is not properly responsive.
But to my Charge: here must I stay, To see what mortals lose their way, And by a false fire seeming bright, Train them in and leave them right.
Then this deceit which cannot crossed be, At once shall lose her him, and gain thee me.
Did you not tell me once I should not love alone, I should not lose Those many passions, vows, and holy Oaths, I've sent to Heaven?
Be just to me: Shall I at once both lose my fame and thee?
Then from the cold Earth never shalt thou move, But lose at one stroke both thy Life and Love.
You didn't lose a fortune and have to start all over again.
Ever since he caught Willie Dodd setting a net there one night he's been crazy for fear he'd lose some of these trout.
Catherine de Medicis, his wife, dreamt that she saw him lose one of his eyes.
When carried in the pocket by men, and under the apron by women, it will retain or lose its freshness according to the good or bad success of the wearer's amatory prospects.
Who would have thought your faith so shallow, that, on the strength of a chance conversation, you would consent to lose my loyal heart?
At length the time came to shut down the coffin, and Chou angrily said to his wife: "You pretend that I let her die so as not to lose four thousand ounces?
If you do not keep your word, I shall commit suicide before you, and you will lose the money and the girl.
Naturally, when little Victorious-Immortal had heard the foul Chou's violent words, her despair had made her loseall sign of life.
But the boy had been commanded to bring him back, and to die sooner than lose him, so he replied: "It is the absolute wish of the Elder-Sister that you come with me.
