It is sad to know that this patriot, so often the resource of Washington, lost his fortune in his old age, and was confined in prison for debt.
And if he lost his ship, he should have one of my grandfather's.
He had quarrelled with North, lost hisplace on the Admiralty, and presently the King had made him a Lord of the Treasury, tho' more out of fear than love.
Even Mr. Jacques, who was sour as last year's cider over the doings of Parliament, lost his heart, and asked why we were not favoured in America with more of his sort.
In 1653 he lost his wife, Mary Powell, who left him three daughters.
He lost his case, but the nation was aroused and determined to vindicate its power.
He had been on a visit to Grasmere, and had gone out for an afternoon's walk on the fells, when the mist came on and he lost his way.
This is another prisoner that I sav'd, Who should have died when Claudio lost his head; As like almost to Claudio as himself.
Released in 1615 he set out on his last voyage, again to Guiana, which, like the former, proved a failure, and in which he lost his eldest s.
Annan of humble parentage, lost his sight by smallpox when 6 months old.
His controversies repeatedly got him into trouble, and after the Revolution he lost his appointments, and was more than once imprisoned.
Then Fritz, recovering from his first flurry, tried to struggle, but he lost his footing, stumbled, and fell headlong down the staircase to the bottom.
Plunged in these melancholy reflections, he lost his way, having passed the place where he should have quitted the main road to ascend the steep hill of which the castle formed the crown.
Leaning with his back against the sideboard, the young man, on seeing him appear, lost his composure, blushed, and turned his head towards the wall.
While in the dark on thy soft hand I hung, And heard the tempting syren in thy tongue, What flames, what darts, what anguish I endured!
Of all the bores I know, To have a friend who's lost his heart A short time ago.
Oh, 'tis the most tremendous bore, Of all the bores I know, To have a friend who's lost his heart A short time ago.
But 'tis the most infernal bore, Of all the bores I know, To have a friend who's lost his heart A short time ago.
In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.
No, my lord, he lost his cause, but he gained a suit.
But that was not all he lost, Mr Simple; for the next cruise he lost his masts; and the loss of his masts occasioned the loss of his ship, since which he has never been trusted with another, but is laid on the shelf.
It seemed most probable that Scott had lost his life in one of them.
This man thought it so sweet a thing to do more than ordinary injuries to others, that although he should be killed, he did not much care if he lost his life in so great a design.
He died in the same year wherein he lost his sister, having lived in all a hundred twenty and three years.
But if Polybius could think that Antiochus thus lost his life on that account, it is much more probable that this king died on account of his sacrilegious plundering of the temple at Jerusalem.
Greatly to his surprise, and still more to his chagrin, he lost his election.
Thus he lost his chance of having "a small taste of British fighting.
He resisted, was desperate heavy; but at last I got him so far down the declivity that he lost his balance, and he rolled over and over till he landed on the margin of the river; but in his fall he dragged me along with him.
But such was the labyrinth of passages, that he lost his way, and mistook for his own the bedroom of a fellow boarder, which was natural enough considering the state of his optics.
Twice he lost his temper, and twice he regained it.
He lost his temper at the very outset, and did his friend much harm by pleading his cause: he recognized what he had done very quickly, and was in despair at his own clumsiness.
He lost his way, and wandered about aimlessly until he found himself in front of his hotel, just when he had made up his mind that he was lost.
But the responsibility of it weighed on Olivier so heavily that he lost his head as the examination came near.
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