In the things of the world, he had fences, and looked at some people through palings and even over the broken bottles on the tops of walls; and I think he was the loser by this, as well as they.
The Loser Pays" is the story of the devotion to love and duty of no less a personage than Rouget de Lisle, the author of the "Marseillaise.
The Loser Pays' will be successful because the author has a good story to tell.
L The damsel wheeled, towards the cavalier Returned, and him bespoke in sportive way; "Who is the loser now to thee is clear, And who is undermost in this assay.
I am very uncertain of getting half pay, from several strange and unexpected accidents, which it would be too tedious to mention; and if I get it not, shall neither be gainer nor loser by the expedition.
Baker stood by and watched the ace come out a losertwice again and then he put $500 on it to win.
Plantagenet and Wooton were old friends, and the latter knew that Plantagenet would try to win with the dummy chips even though he would be $1,000 loser if he did.
On the following night he was $4,000 loser after four hours' play, but he gave no sign of quitting.
If I wanted to play the scheme to its limit, which would be a fool trick and probably result in that dog getting himself stuffed and mounted by some loser getting next to his gag, I'd have too much money.
Baker would quit when he was loser just as suddenly as he would when he was away ahead of the game.
No man is a loser by giving up anything for Jesus Christ.
If two men of like incomes gamble the additional desires that the winner is able to gratify are (by the principle of decreasing gratification) less in amount than the desires which the loser must forego.
As a result the loseris often depressed and seriously injured by the loss of his income, the winner makes reckless and extravagant use of his winnings.
But in gambling the winner gets all, the loser gets nothing.
The loser is expected to complain, and his friends to give him a partial hearing; and though he breathes vengeance against his antagonist, it ends in a breath.
I shall see that you are no loser by your staunchness.
I was the loser by some three hundred pounds, in addition to what I expended and loaned to Mr. Fox.
They played; luck changed; and the late LOSER ruined the other.
The loser in this case may perhaps eventually become the better player of the two; but he is not so at present.
If the loser does not make 500, his opponent counts a double game, or double points, according as they have agreed.
The winner of the last trick takes the last card of the stock, and the loser the turn-up card (or seven exchanged for it).
In fact, if he looks into the affairs, he will I think see that there is no prospect of any eventual loss to the creditors, though I may be a loser myself.
I have been a heavy loser by your pigheaded obstinacy; and I dare say before you and Phil Sheldon have done with each other, you too will find yourself a loser.
George Sheldon had been a loser in that game in which the Haygarthian inheritance was the stake.
And he is so candid, so trusting, it would be very hard if he were to be a loser through his confidence in papa.
How the bookseller would be less a loser by being at more expense, I can easily explain to you.
I had not seen Dodsley, consequently could only tell you that I did not doubt but he would have no objection to satisfy you, as you was willing to prevent his being a loser by the plate.
The loser came up behind him leisurely, chatted, and shoved the winner past the post by rowlocks locking.
By the legislation of some states the loser may recover his money if he sue within a limited time, as he might have done in England under 9 Anne c.
By the combined effect of these two enactments the recovery by the winner from the loser or stakeholder of bets or of stakes on games falling within s.
And all that sympathetic talk, that bum steer, just to cheat the big loser out of one measly pot!
I hope I'm a good loser as far as the money goes, but I hate to be bunkoed.
It is a human instinct, that apart altogether from the consideration of its intrinsic worth, and the proportion it bears to that which is still possessed, the lost thing draws, and the loser will take any pains to find it.
Hence, if a wager is voidable in law, the winner may keep his gains until obliged by a judge to give them up, but the loser is not bound to pay, unless he confirms the wager.
If a thief does not know from whom he stole, it may be doubtful whether the matter is relatively grave or only light; but the presumption then will be that the loser was a person of average means.
If the law is purely penal, the contract is valid and the obligations ensue; if it is a law that binds morally, then the contract is invalid, and the loser probably need not pay, but has acted sinfully in gambling.
Hence, if a wager is only denied a hearing before a judge, the winner may keep his gains, and the loser should pay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
