Word: lose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...different things that look like engines, but none with a donkey. Think the captain might have been more explicit. The vessel begins to go up and down a little. Do not want any tea, but go down and eat heartily. The cake was very good. After tea I gradually lose my interest in everything. Am not a bit seasick. Wish the boat would not pitch so. There is no need of it Go to bed at nine o'clock and sleep soundly all night...
...honor who will do their share of the work, and derive additional benefit from his remarks to them. Thus men who come poorly fitted, but eager to learn, appreciate and derive greatest advantage, while those who may fancy the remarks as "too critical," "too old," gradually lose what they do know, and learn nothing...
...inert, - force and matter; but perhaps came nearer the truth than our German contemporaries in recognizing these elements as divine intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist can tell us about them." But we are not to look for gain in religion more than in science. It might have been hoped that our author would grant...
Could this abandonment of a practice which has been a serious blot upon the character of American Colleges be prolonged for two years more, we may fairly hope that in ceasing to be a "College Custom," the practice would lose its last hold upon young men who are justly proud of the good name of Harvard Students as gentlemen...
...desires to lose one of the most graceful bits of modern English writing, he will do well to omit to read "A Rose in June," now appearing in the Every Saturday, and copied from the Cornhill Magazine. In the number of June 6 appears an ably written criticism, or rather eulogy, on the father of the English novel, Henry Fielding. It contains a much-needed reproof of the hypocritical morality of the present day, which prevents one of the purest and most truthful of authors from being read...