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Luke is called home to Pine River, Colorado to reclaim the ranch his father lost in a gentlemen's agreement.
Although it seems clear that he has lost the election, he still refuses to concede.
The kids listened to the speaker for a little while, but then lost interest.
He says he's lost too many years to the bottle, and that he's giving up alcohol.
We need to reeducate the workers who lost their jobs when the factory closed.
The store has lost a significant amount of business since the factory closed.
He lost his driver's license because he exceeded the quota of traffic violations.
They lost the 1933 Lancashire Cup Final to Warrington, whilst finishing in no competitive position in the league once more.
Of the eleven games England played with White in charge they won three, and drew one and lost seven.
Helens who lost five consecutive Grand Finals between 2007 and 2011, four of which were against Leeds.
England had lost four wickets for six runs, and were 31 for 4 with Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen at the crease.
Many of these sites were lost as a result of the Olympic venue construction, most notably the Manor Road site.
During these four seasons Leicester lost only 14 games out of the 92 they played.
Cup holders Salford had lost only one match prior to the final, against the touring Australians.
In 1966, the club won the First Division but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners' Cup final.
Since the 1960s, however, the term has lost this honorific aspect and is applied generally to women who are ballet dancers.
The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final.
In 2007, Rowling's young son, David, assisted by Rowling and her husband, lost a court fight to ban publication of a photograph of him.
The war left its emotional mark on Vaughan Williams, who lost many comrades and friends, including the young composer George Butterworth.
Q magazine would list Hot Space as one of the top fifteen albums where great rock acts lost the plot.
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In the end, however, the library at Vivarium was dispersed and lost within a century.
Since that loss, Germany has not lost a penalty shootout in major international tournaments.
England lost the first match of the series but bounced back and won the next four Tests.
Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.
Just before tea Australia lost their first wicket with Hayden out caught at short leg from Ashley Giles first over.
Yorkshire lost to Gloucestershire by a single run and were overtaken by Kent, who won their last match against Hampshire by an innings.
In the 2004 Six Nations Championship, England lost to both France and Ireland and finished third.
A team scoring four tries in one match scored a bonus point, as did a team that lost by fewer than eight points.
This time they never had the lead over the Kiwis as they lost the match by 10 points.
However, they lost the other three games and went down to a record defeat against New Zealand.
By 1731 Johnson's father was deeply in debt and had lost much of his standing in Lichfield.
The tour lost money heavily, and Christie announced that he would underwrite no more tours.
Robin Hood is known to have appeared in a number of other lost and extant Elizabethan plays.
He then lost them and made it back to his ship quickly before the tide came back in, leaving them all to drown.
Places such as Richmond, Ripon, Tadcaster, Helmsley, Pickering and the Wensleydale communities lost their passenger services.
Some poems by Kyd exist, but it seems that most of his work is lost or unidentified.
My house has lost Levet, a man who took interest in everything, and therefore ready at conversation.
The more tactful letter was sent and was lost during the later bombing of Germany.
His young playmate had mentioned the Club had lost its only horse-hung top and the members were unhappy about that.
In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.
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The text of one song, The Long Whip, seems to have been lost completely as a result.
In spite of the show's popularity and extensive run in London's West End, it lost money due to the sheer expense of the production.
Edgar, having lost much of his support, fled to Scotland, where King Malcolm III was married to Edgar's sister Margaret.
In 1932 Beecham lost patience and agreed with Sargent to set up a new orchestra from scratch.
Jamaica, which has lost only once in the tournament, decided not to play the 2011 tournament.
The beginnings of the dispute are numerous, and many of the underlying reasons may be lost in history.
However, they lost the 1909 Ashes series against Australia, suing 25 players in the process.
England also lost to South Africa, with Jack Hobbs scoring his first of fifteen centuries on the tour.
They reached the final of the 1987 World Cup, but lost by seven runs against Australia.
England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.
In the following month, 22 German bombers were lost with 13 confirmed to have been shot down by night fighters.
Though Strauss succumbed in the tenth over, England lost no further wickets before lunch, and only one more before tea.
Coming back after tea, England immediately lost two wickets to Shaun Tait, who used the cloud cover to good effect and swung the ball well.
The team had an improved record, but although second only to Gloucestershire, Yorkshire lost heavily in both encounters between the teams.
Many jobs were also lost as manufacturing became more efficient and fewer people were required to work in the sector.
They lost to Scotland in their last game however, giving Scotland a Grand Slam.
Hawking acknowledged that he had lost the bet in 1990, which was the first of several that he was to make with Thorne and others.
Wilkinson is widely known as a teetotaler, but broke that habit after England lost to South Africa in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final.
In Martin Johnson and Neil Back's last game for Leicester they lost the Premiership Final to Wasps.
The run ended when Leicester lost to a late Northampton try in the 2014 semi finals.
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On the 1928 tour of Australasia, Great Britain lost only five of 24 tour matches.
Great Britain surprised everyone by winning the first test, but lost the next two.
Any ballad may be older than the oldest copy that happens to survive, or descended from a lost older ballad.
As the number start to rise slightly the packages increased to regain the lost profits.
Some lost hands or limbs, others were crushed under the machines, and some were decapitated.
Now, these Native Americans are trying to regain some of their lost heritage.
Wilfrid not only lost his diocese, he lost control of his monasteries as well.
A portrait of More and his family was painted by Holbein, but it was lost in a fire in the 18th century.
After Clayton's death, the estate passed to relatives and was soon lost at gambling.
He wrote that in New York City his building would have been lost in a forest of tall buildings, but that in Oklahaoma it stood alone.
Upon the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII the abbots and mitred priors lost their positions in Parliament.
The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
The Prince, now having lost a kinsman in the warring families' feud, exiles Romeo from Verona, under penalty of death if he ever returns.
I was a little disappointed to have lost the light, for I'd pictured the springs as bubbling, roiling, geysery things, clear-pure and alive.
They lost heartbreakingly, with an own goal in the last minute of the match.
Service abroad on behalf of the Empire lost its allure to ambitious young people, who left Scotland permanently.
Like Keats's grandfather, her grandfather kept a London inn, and both lost several family members to tuberculosis.
Buddicom and Blair lost touch shortly after he went to Burma, and she became unsympathetic towards him.
Under the act, the Ridings lost their lieutenancies, shrievalties, and administrative counties.
It was planned by the government in London and designed as a replacement for the lost American colonies.
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He issued decrees returning property lost under Maxentius, recalling political exiles, and releasing Maxentius' imprisoned opponents.
The strategic location was not lost on the founders of Holstein, of which Kiel was intended to be a major city.
Like the Spartans, the Seleucids lost the battle, and were forced to evacuate Greece.
Even Roman constitutionalists, such as the senator Cicero, lost a willingness to remain faithful to it towards the end of the republic.
Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome.
His books were lost first, as their antiquarian subjects became unfashionable.
Many thousands of soldiers were lost in battling attempted coups by figures such as Firmus, Magnus Maximus and Eugenius.
Alfred laid siege to the Danes, who were forced to surrender after reinforcements were lost in a storm.
The English lost 2,200 men, and the commander, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, was taken prisoner.
In March 2017, Caine lost ten kilograms on a health kick and fears dying of cancer, saying his days were numbered.
Captain Whalley, who seemed lost in a mental effort as of doing a sum in his head, gave a slight start.
However, many sponsors were lost and British TV coverage became much reduced by the early nineties.
On 27 July, John's German allies lost the Battle of Bouvines, with many prisoners taken, including the Earl of Salisbury.
The French lost all their Italian territories except Saluzzo, and were confirmed in the possession of Calais and the three bishoprics.
In the 2015 General Election, Carswell kept his seat in Clacton but Reckless lost Rochester to the Conservative Kelly Tolhurst.
I tried reading the instruction manual but many of the steps were unfortunately lost in translation.
Having lost the support of Parliament, Danby resigned his post of Lord High Treasurer, but received a pardon from the king.
As he began to march south, Lambert, who had ridden out to face him, lost support in London.
The Russians had lost around 210,000 men, but with their shorter supply lines, they soon replenished their armies.
Keith Fletcher took over as captain in 1981, but England lost his first series in charge against India.
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From that point on, Dallas was never the same. It hit its peak. It lost credibility. It jumped the shark.
An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost to a colony on home soil.
We were playing keepy uppy as we walked home and we lost the ball off the side of the bridge!
The Luftwaffe lost 18 percent of the bombers sent on the operations that day, and failed to gain air superiority.
In the 2014 local elections they lost over 300 councillors and the control of two local governments.
With the death of Prince Albert in 1861 the scheme lost its driving force, but by then many paintings were completed or underway.
The judgement effectively made strikes illegal since employers could recoup the cost of lost business from the unions.
Arthur Henderson, elected in 1931 to succeed MacDonald, lost his seat in the 1931 general election.
No team lost points for a poor pitch in any of the seasons 2012 to 2015 inclusive.
In 1873, Yorkshire won seven games and lost five and for the following season, Luke Greenwood replaced Rowbotham as captain.
However they lost 9 out of their 20 seats on the Brighton and Hove council, losing minority control.
Widows of peers who later married commoners lost the privilege, but those who later married peers did not.
City status was temporarily lost until new letters patent were issued in November of the same year.
The message of the Japanese Prime Minister's speech was lost in translation.
The Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Southsea Common commemorates 24,591 fallen soldiers who lost their lives in the First World War.
The program lost to Turing's colleague Alick Glennie, although it is said that it won a game against Champernowne's wife.
Studying and writing lost appeal for him and he sank into religious melancholy.
Wilkinson along with Lewis Moody were England's most consistent performers as they lost to Australia and New Zealand and narrowly beat Argentina.
The benefit of this is lost somewhat due to the lower heat addition temperature.
In the occasional highly publicized case, then, the best interests of the child may be lost in the shuffle.
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This advantage was lost in the 18th century as other regions edged forward such as China and Western Europe.
O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
The Bulls were definitely stung by the Hornets at the beginning of this first playoff game. Some Bulls were lost in action.
Chelsea had two players sent off and lost out to a Heidar Helguson penalty in a heated west London derby.
After crossing the Tasman Sea to New Zealand, they lost both Tests against New Zealand with a team depleted with injuries.
Kouchner's comments came after another French marine was killed bringing to 29 the number of French forces lost in action.
He lost his factory job but received a payoff and a pension.
She lost her sight and is now learning to live with her affliction.
She won the first two games, but lost the set and the match.
Both pitchers, though they are older, haven't lost their magic.
The amends he had made in after life were lost sight of in the dramatic glare of the original act.
The comedian lost his gig at the nightclub because he had such a dirty mouth.
St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life.
In English, both two sets of adjective endings were lost entirely in the late Middle English period.
Sure and begorra, 'twas the second time I lost me balance and fell into yer drink.
Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene.
Many homes, a great deal of property and a number of lives were lost as a result of the bushfires in this country.
When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water.
As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.
Ancient Rome boasted impressive technological feats, using many advances that would be lost in the Middle Ages.
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By the 9th century the old Roman street pattern was lost and Bath was a royal possession.
Despite his efforts, Baroque was never truly to the English taste and well before his death in 1724 the style had lost currency in Britain.
Dollarwise, I probably lost out by at least 100 percent, but it spawned a career.
The Godardian vision of a universe that is both lost and recuperable in time is the thread that holds this movie and all his others together.
In fact, even before this time, Le Morte D' Arthur states that he had lost a cubit of height due to his penitent fastings and prayers.
But the pie was not considered popular there until the 1800s, and today meat pies have lost their popularity to be replaced with sweet pies.
In order to account for these lost words, modern editions of the poem are supplemented by references to Edward Thwaites' 1698 edition.
Henry Dudeney's book The Canterbury Puzzles contains a part reputedly lost from what modern readers know as Chaucer's tales.
Scott presumably foresaw this, which may explain his decision to geologize on the return trip once he lost priority at the pole.
My mum got me onto this new diet and I've lost 5 kilos in the past two weeks.
That Euripides' taste ran often to such gruesomenesses is indicated by the plots of some of his lost tragedies.
Distracted by the munchings and gulpings that punctuated my father's theology, I lost my place in his dialogue.
My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?
Three years later, at the Battle of Verneuil, the French and Scots lost around 7000 men.
The tsunami triggered by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake reached Holland, although the waves had lost their destructive power.
But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
He lost large amounts of blood and was bled further by the attending physician.
Since 1965, the exact location of William Blake's grave had been lost and forgotten as gravestones were taken away to create a lawn.
Employers had to decide between giving in to the union demands at a cost to themselves or suffering the cost of the lost production.
This bridge either crossed the Thames, or gave access to a now lost island in the river.
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Between then and 1605 they lost value at an average of 12 per cent every ten years, three times the then English rate.
After that King George III lost control of Parliament and was unable to continue the war.
At the same time the Irish Parliamentary lost in support on account of the crisis.
Additional copies were made, for further distribution or to replace lost manuscripts, and some copies were updated independently of each other.
The works of Euclid and Archimedes, lost in the West, were translated from Arabic to Latin in Spain.
Denmark lost Schleswig to Austria and Prussia in 1864 as a result of the Second Schleswig War.
Surviving fragments of the many lost works of Aristotle were included in the fifth volume of Bekker's edition, edited by Valentin Rose.
These texts, as opposed to Aristotle's lost works, are technical philosophical treatises from within Aristotle's school.
Though his original work is lost it was used by later writers such as Strabo.
Although they do not make webs, female huntsmans at least have not lost the ability to produce silk.
He restored lost days to festivals and got rid of many extraneous celebrations added by Caligula.
This last proposal was not popular with the plebeians and he lost much of his support.
Thus Claudius' private words about his own policies and motives were lost to history.
Suetonius lost access to the official archives shortly after beginning his work.
Henry's source for the story is unknown, though it may have been a lost hagiography of Helena.
In 413 he led an invasion of Italia, lost to a subordinate of Constantius, and fled back to Africa where he was murdered by Constantius's agents.
Based on this, we can presume that some of the information in these texts has been lost in translation.
The church was now 'tributary', her sons had 'embraced dung' and the nobility had lost their authority to govern.
Olaf escaped back to Dublin with the remnant of his forces, while Constantine lost a son.
The site had vanished from modern maps and was essentially lost to history until the local history enthusiasts made their discoveries.
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If the deletionist philosophy prevails, as I suspect it will, the inclusionist Wikipedia will be lost forever.
When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.
The Russians had lost 150,000 in battle and hundreds of thousands of civilians.
His sons also lost much of their control over Maine, which revolted in 1089 and managed to remain mostly free of Norman influence thereafter.
They lost Dyrrachium, Valona, and Butrint in 1085, after the death of Robert.
By 1947 he was deemed ready by his brother to take over the mantle but lost the world final to the Scotsman Walter Donaldson.
By the end of the fighting, the French had lost Aspern but still controlled Essling.
John lost control of all his continental possessions, apart from Gascony in southern Aquitaine.
Under the Statute of Rhuddlan the Principality lost its independence and became effectively an annexed territory of the English crown.
Bruce was forced into hiding, while the English forces recaptured their lost territory and castles.
Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's history.
When William arrived on 5 November 1688, James lost his nerve, declined to attack the invading Dutch and tried to flee to France.
With the chance for an annulment lost and England's place in Europe forfeit, Cardinal Wolsey bore the blame.
The potions of School Divinity wrought easily with him, so that he was not lost a whit in their Intricoes any further than they lose themselves.
During her tour of European courts, she lost and never regained her sanity.
The northern shore, between 1851 and 1970, lost 928 feet because of erosion.
It also aroused the hostility of both the United States and Austria, which had lost a member of its royal family.
When David returned from exile in 1341 to rule in his own right, Edward lost most of his support.
At the concluding Treaty of Utrecht, Philip renounced his and his descendants' right to the French throne and Spain lost its empire in Europe.
James lost his nerve and declined to attack the invading army, despite his army's numerical superiority.
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During the course of a few hours nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies and cities lost their special privileges.
After scoring a pair in the first Test against Australia, Botham lost the captaincy due to his poor form, and was replaced by Mike Brearley.
By the end of April 1804, Addington, who had lost his parliamentary support, had decided to resign.
However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence.
The prosecutor thought he lost the case, not due to the creation of reasonable doubt, but due to jury nullification.
Austria, keen to recover territory lost during the War of the Third Coalition, invaded France's client states in Eastern Europe.
However, Nelson's right eye had been irreparably damaged and he eventually lost all sight in it.
Satiran, lost in his own grief, shuddered once, then lifted his head to the sky and keened out his loss to the heavens.
During his 1946 trip to the United States, Churchill famously lost a lot of money in a poker game with Harry Truman and his advisors.
Fighter Command lost 23 fighters, with six pilots killed and another seven wounded.
Godwinson successfully repelled the invasion by Hardrada, but ultimately lost the throne of England in the Norman conquest of England.
Labour also lost a further nine seats to the Conservatives to record their lowest share of the seats since the 1987 general election.
They did not regard England as their primary home until most of their continental domains were lost by John.
In 1534, Henry VIII acquired York Place from Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a powerful minister who had lost the King's favour.
However, the party lost the 1945 general election to the resurgent Labour Party.
These divisions gave off an impression of a divided party, which had lost touch with the voters.
He was in the final two but narrowly lost at Wealden in March 2000, a loss ascribed by Samantha Cameron to his lack of spontaneity when speaking.
The working class increasingly lost confidence in the ability of Labour to solve the most pressing problem.
In Wales the party enjoyed good successes, regaining control of most Welsh Councils lost in 2008, including the capital city, Cardiff.
The Party lost 40 of its 41 seats in Scotland in the face of record breaking swings to the Scottish National Party.
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On the constituency vote the SNP gained 11 seats from Labour but lost the Edinburgh Southern constituency to the party.
They also lost heavily in the Welsh assembly and Scottish Parliament, where several candidates lost their deposits.
However, the party lost control later in the year after several of its councillors defected and it lost its majority.
At the London Mayoral Election the party's candidate Jenny Jones finished third, and lost her deposit.
The state lost a House seat at the end of the 112th Congress due to stagnant population growth as recorded by the 2010 United States Census.
It lost one House seat due to stagnant population growth in the 2010 Census.
Ultimately, the Danes lost control of Wessex in 1042 on the death of both of Canute's sons.
In 628 the empire secured a peace treaty and recovered all of its lost territories.
First, many crop landraces in Europe are being lost without our even knowing what is being lost.
It is 10 months since they lost to the Latics in last season's final, something that the visiting supporters were intent on reminding everyone.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, described it as a lost decade.
With leptogenic drugs, he lost the weight he gained because of his treatment.
Newton was one of many people who lost heavily when the South Sea Company collapsed.
Early in the Beagle voyage, Darwin nearly lost his position on the ship when he criticised FitzRoy's defence and praise of slavery.
In 1981, he proposed that information in a black hole is irretrievably lost when a black hole evaporates.
As he slowly lost the ability to write, he developed compensatory visual methods, including seeing equations in terms of geometry.
By now the gauge war was lost and mixed gauge was brought to Paddington in 1861, allowing through passenger trains from London to Chester.
Many had been lost in the war, and marine diesel engine had finally matured as an economical and viable alternative to steam power.
Unfortunately glycerolated vaccine soon lost its potency at ambient temperatures which restricted its use in tropical climates.
Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood.
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For example, the Mexican tetra is an albino cavefish that lost its eyesight during evolution.
Ahithophel, Absalom's chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected.
This is from a book that was lost in the Cotton Library fire of 1731, but it had been transcribed previously.
Pakistan's political experience is essentially related to the struggle of Indian Muslims to regain the power they lost to British colonisation.
The Awami League lost again to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the 2001 election.
He saw himself reflected in Mhoram's eyes, saw himself standing lornly with what he had lost written in his face.
There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks.
When you think about all she's done for the sport, it's kind of sad, but she's completely lost it over the past few years.
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper.
They had more than 45 years in the business, but it was clear they never lost their touch.
Finally, I lost the plot. I got into my car and drove to the police station.
Great Britain then set off for New Zealand, where they lost the first Test.
Well, if you can't find your glasses, then go to lost and found and ask if anyone turned them in.
He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it.
I know she was happy when I lost my job. She was waiting to see me fail.
Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love.
The factory lost revenue because of the strike by the workers.
Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash.
The club lost to Morpeth Town at Wembley Stadium on 22 May 2016 in the final of the FA Vase.
Most Celticists consider Geoffrey's Caliburnus to be derivative of a lost Old Welsh text in which bwlch had not yet been lenited to fwlch.
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The full score had been lost soon after Purcell's death in 1695, and had only recently been found.
Like all English clubs, Villa lost seven seasons to the Second World War, and that conflict brought several careers to a premature end.
The team lost so many games that the season was a total washout.
The barbershop quartet Homer put together had its 15 minutes of fame before fans simply lost interest.
That's an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.
Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins.
In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited.
I spent five hours finding a suitable present for my sister, but then I lost it and had to look all over again.
I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
I have lost the taste of joy, and the sight of youth and beauty recalls to my memory that treasure of both, my loved and lost Arline.
A balian may be consulted in order to determine the location of a lost object or the identity of a thief.
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
Deprived-eye responsiveness was lost in the extragranular layers, whereas normal binocularity in layer IV was preserved.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Her wedding shoes, place cards and bonbonniere are among all her lost possessions, but luckily she still has her groom.
The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
The Franks were lost on July 5, shortly after leaving Grenada on their cabin cruiser Reel Lucky.
He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or above all, burned the cheque book.
The man was not clean but she had long since lost any sense of disgust at the urine smell and the small curds of cock-cheese.
I sit back on my heels, lost among Mother's cardigans and zippered clothes bags.
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I haven't checked the oil level of my car's motor since I lost the dipstick three months ago.
In recent years, penicillin-based drugs have lost some of their magic bullet status due to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have partly lost their shape through overheating.
I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.
A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
He passed through the doorway into the back room, where several customers disentombed lost novels from the deep shelves.
But Osterman is not merely a documenter, preserving the lost art form of the radio drama.
A drawback in the dual duplexer design is that six channels are lost because three band gaps are required.
But when they knew they were going back they lost his paperwork. No just his. Everycunt who'd tried to leave.
The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this fool-hardy boy had lost his mind.
The policeman was concerned that the lost handgun would fall into the wrong hands.
His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated.
From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.
In 1789 Reynolds lost the sight of his left eye, which forced him into retirement.
In the play, the young Mariana was to be married, but was rejected by her betrothed when her dowry was lost in a shipwreck.
He had risked all his fortune on one cast of the die, and, gamblerlike, had lost everything.
After Rome became an empire, the ability to impress and persuade people by the spoken word lost much of its importance.
The lost mountaineer was easily rescued because his phone transmitted his geocoordinates to the emergency services.
In the four seasons between 1998 and 2001, they lost 81 times in 99 matches, avoiding relegation for a variety of reasons.

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