Now I could by no means like her project; I though it looked too much like prompting him, which indeed he did not want, and I clearly saw that I should lose nothing by being backward to ask, so I took her up short.
You have been the dearest thing in life to me, ever since I first saw you; and now that I should lose my courage over these pitiful riches!
God forbid we should lose her, Richard,' she returned, gently.
I heard him speaking to Mr. Lambert and saying that you were not fit to undertake such a long journey by yourself; he did not count me, as he knew I should lose my head in the bustle; very rude of him, was it not?
I should losemy place, ruin my sisters, destroy my career for life.
If the secret is not kept carefully, I should lose my place, and I am a poor man, with wife and children.
At all events I should prepare them here for the possibility of my going away suddenly,' said Nicholas; 'I should lose no time in doing that.
In France, when they knew it, I should lose all my glory!
You are mad to say that,' replied Roland, 'for in France I should lose all my glory.
I say that we should lose nothing, because all these articles are imported by the Americans; and if the Canadians wish to procure them, they can obtain them immediately at Buffalo, and other American towns bordering on the lakes.
If, in the scope of countless possibilities, one chance alone were adverse, that one might happen, and I should lose my husband.
What, then, has happened That I should lose my good opinion of him?
Would he have had recourse to this subterfuge if he had not been sensible how much he should lose in our estimation by confessing himself an accomplice with the assassin?
For at that time I never could have dreamed That France should loseto us the only thing We envied her possessing.
If I violate this command I should lose my knowledge; and this condition is well calculated to insure secrecy, is it not?
Dandolo took a wife the influence of that wife would of course have some weight, and that the more she gained in influence over him the more I should lose.
When the luck is in my favour I never refuse anyone who asks me for money, for I have a superstition that I should lose if I did.
I should lose some of the best recollections, best encouragements, and best objects, that I carry through my daily life.
I should losemy belief that if I had been his equal, and he had loved me, I should have tried with all my might to make him better and happier, as he would have made me.
In that case," said he, "I should lose her, and by my own fault.
If I took them, and were detected, I should lose my place, which is worth two thousand francs a year; so that I should be a great fool to run such a risk for three hundred.
Then have a care, I repeat, for you seek to persuade me, and if you succeed I should lose my reason, for I should hope that I could again behold Valentine.
Were I shirking exertion I should lose heart, under a sense of general contempt, and so die like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Kept still at the review till two o'clock; not that there is any hurry, but because I should lose my ideas, which are not worth preserving.
They feared I should lose my standing in the ministry and become an outcast from the churches.
He admonished me that, in assailing the institution of American slavery, I should only be “kicking against the pricks,” that I should lose my standing in the ministry and my usefulness in the church.
I should lose most of my subscribers in the slave, and many in the free States.
I want to find out whether it was you who sent a man to tell Dave Carter, the gambler, how I was playing, and to ask him to fix the cards so that I should lose all I had.
Would he go, do you think, if he should lose all he has?
Now, I shall be happy to assist you as far as I can, but it will be on condition that you leave town; for if you should get tipsy and begin to talk about me, I should lose everything.
It was not merely that I should lose my life, but I should lose it without securing that for which I had designed it--I mean Mr. Herbert's liberation.
Tash in a flurry asked me what it was I saw; but I moved away without answering him, certain that I had a hold upon the key of the plot, fearful lest I should lose it.
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