Word: losing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...must not for a moment lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with France, and that in France everything is perfectly organized, classified, and subordinated, like books in a library, soldiers in camp, or criminals in cells...
...this our loss is double, for not only do we lose ground in our knowledge of the language, but we lose, also, the pleasure of social converse in the tongue pre-eminently fitted to convey the niceties of conversation...
...last works of an author so prolific as Bulwer are often repetitions in part of former ones, and, even if they lose nothing in freshness and originality, they are likely to embody some fanciful theory or a leaning towards sentimentality in one form or another, - to be pervaded throughout, in short, by the particular weakness inherent in the author, which has been all along suppressed by whole-some criticism, or the fear of it, only to break out when the strength of his reputation renders him superior to the reviewers. But Kenelm Chillingly shows neither of these faults...
...umpire. The first innings resulted in a whitewash for both sides. But on the second the Harvards got in 8 runs, on the third 5, and on the fourth 5, to the Browns 2, 1, and 1 in the same time. But here a change appeared. Kip seemed to lose his power of effective pitching, and Brown crept slowly up to our score; making three on the 5th, three on the 6th, and eight on the 7th. Brown went in on the ninth inning with twelve to tie, and thirteen to win the game, and nearly succeeded in doing this...
...preliminary studies especially adapted to the preparation of the young men to take an efficient part in the treatment of difficult questions connected with the management of public affairs." For granted, what is so often urged, that to obtain place one must generally blunt all nice sensibility, indeed, must lose much of his spirit of independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer a superficial pretender (without capacity, acquirement, or character, and possessing only sagacity in pandering to the inclination of the hour) to a man of integrity and knowledge, - it does...