I understand it is the crookedest gambling joint in the city, at least judging by the stories they tell of the losses there.
What if he had really planned to pay his losses by marrying a girl with a fortune?
Serious losses from "damping-off" often result from excessive moisture, especially at night, when evaporation is not so rapid as during the day.
Chittenden, of the United States Engineers--a very complete and historically valuable statement of the losses on that stream.
In my list of upper-river boats,[J] there are noted all losses of which I have found any record.
So far as I can learn, there is no reliable record of all the losses on the upper river, giving the name of the boat, where, when, and how lost.
Other records are too comprehensive, attempting to give all the losses through the entire length of the river, from New Orleans to St. Paul.
But after a "bloody fight" they were all taken or slain, with losses also to the French in killed and wounded.
As the French marched into the town the men hidden in the houses fell upon them, but with losses upon both sides were driven into the castle.
It is high time that a stop was put to this lavish expenditure, and especially to the losses by dishonest agents.
Sad complaints had been made concerning the administration of several of the Departments, and the press had not failed to predict heavy losses to the Government through the dishonesty and the defalcations of its agents.
Winter losses through disease superinduced by unfavorable surroundings which it is within the power of the bee keeper to avoid have already been considered.
Thus prepared for the winter the colonies will need but slight attention from October until March, or, in the North, even later, and the losses will be limited to the small percentage of cases due to failure of apparently good queens.
Under proper conditions, however, especially when abundant protection has been given, colonies out of doors will consume no more food nor meet with greater losses in numbers than those wintered under favorable conditions indoors.
Well may the unfortunate commander have exclaimed as he compared his own heavy losses with the light ones of Xenophon and his Greeks in these same regions, "Oh, those Ten Thousand!
The losses during the most favorable seasons have averaged from one to five per cent.
The outlook was to our liking, as heavy losses had been sustained from fever the year before, and steps had already been taken to isolate all through animals until frost fell.
Since my connection with this post we have always received good steers, and our losses have been light, but above and below this military reservation the per cent.
At no ranch which was visited did my mission fail of meeting hearty approval, especially on the western side of the river, where severe losses from fever had been sustained the fall before.
I should answer, 'I am ready enough to play if any of you are ready to pay my losses and take my winnings; I am tired of being as good as an annuity to you all,' for that is what you have been for the last ten years.
It is upon us that the losses of this siege have fallen.
In a second attack the enemy's cavalry inflicted severe losses on the 42nd.
The two most prominent causes assigned for the depression were bad seasons and foreign competition, aggravated by the increased cost of production and the heavy losses of live stock.
The inclusion of the indirect losses and the other matters just referred to caused great excitement in England.
This promise he brilliantly fulfilled by routing the forces of the Argive confederacy at the battle of Mantinea (418), the moral effect of which was out of all proportion to the losses inflicted on the enemy.
After the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 it opened its gates to numerous French refugees; but this hardly compensated it for its losses during the war.
He must also bear all losses arising from damage to the ship by accidents.
The fighting on this field lasted ten days, at the end of which Grant had doubled his losses and was as far as ever from success.
The losses were enormous on both sides, Johnston himself being amongst the killed.
My old company had met with other losses than death.
The losses in officers had been such that many promotions were made.
The losses were heavy and the enemy made a desperate resistance.
The losses sustained by a French regiment in storming a position may be estimated conservatively at forty to fifty per cent.
The losses which the French sustained were inhuman and sickening.
It seems a crazy style to me, for theirlosses must have been enormous.
If the farmer still went on, in spite of all these losses and crosses, he might employ men in the place of horses, but not a single man more than the number that would work at the price of the keep of one horse.
The losses by fire in Marine have been: The Marine saw mill, Sept.
Its history would be a history of litigations, of wranglings and feuds, of losses and gains, of mistakes, of blunders and of wrongs.
Spain was repairing her fortunes; while England was counting up her losses and gains, and preparing to shake hands in amity with the young country across the ocean and grow into friendship with it.
Patty and the two babies returned, and she declared the losses were really not worth thinking of, since everybody had been spared.
Thus, ignorance begat toryism, and toryism begat lossesin Carolina, of which few have any idea.
Though this salary had been voted him chiefly because of his losses during the war, yet it was not continued to him longer than two or three years, when it was reduced to less than five hundred dollars annually.
By heavy expenditures and losses through his sons, his home had become involved to the extent of fifty thousand dollars.
But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy.
And Charles I, instead of placing himself in a position to repair these losses of his allies, embarked on a new domestic quarrel with the Parliament.
On the contrary it had suffered the heaviest losses itself.
The King was obliged to compensate the admiral for the losses which he affirmed that he had suffered in consequence.
A trifling success had been gained at Lone Jack, but it was more than done away with by aggregate losses in bloody guerrilla fighting.
It was found in practice that while under his personal management as a comparatively small owner his estates had been well worked, and had brought him wealth, his new gigantic ownership laid him open to losses in a hundred ways.
We used to get as many as a dozen casualties in a company while digging, and one spot became known as “Suicide Corner,” because of the heavy losses there.
We heard from the front two days ago that the Australians’ heavy losses were entirely due to the fact that they charged full speed for a mile and were not content with that, but they must needs go and chase the Turks for five miles.
Many of these dropped on to the beach down below, killing mules and causing losses amongst transport drivers and the men of the Army Service Corps.
Owing to the luck of war we had not many casualties in our own battery, and the losses were nothing like what you would have expected from such a lot of firing from the Turkish guns.
Let us hope that if we did not manage to do that, our tremendous losses were not in vain, and helped to spoil any plans for marching on Egypt and India.
This showed how well informed they were as to our movements even since the previous evening; but luckily our losses amounted to only two or three horses.
We were now in a plentiful country; and as for our losses by death and fatigue, such was the fortune of war, and we had not come to this country to enjoy sports and pastimes.
Our intercourse with those colonies is so great, that frequent and important losses will accrue to individuals, if this construction be continued.
That mysterious affair three months ago has greatly depressed the value of the stock, for, in fact, no one seems to know what is the amount of the losses we suffered.
No one, indeed, has any idea how large the lossesreally are outside this board.
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