Losing Sentence Examples
Worse, she was losing her grip on the magic within her.
Losing Josh was like losing a brother.
It's tough losing a father.
She never thought she had a chance of losing this round.
She already sensed she was fighting a losing battle.
I've been losing some good ones.
Was he being sarcastic, or was he still miffed about the losing the mules?
I feel like I'm winning my battles but losing the war.
Freed from worry about losing a job they do not enjoy, encouraged to follow their dreams and passions, I believe most will want to do just that.
For her, losing them was painful enough, but losing a mate - that would be agonizing.
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Voices prevented her from losing herself to her pain.
She had to wait for the right moment, when she wouldn't risk losing him.
Losing a soul was always a possibility.
When he finished the chores, he swallowed three aspirins and went outside to shovel the accumulating snow, hoping further activity might dissipate the anger he felt, not only at Shipton, but at himself for losing it in so public and childish manner.
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He.d never risk losing something so valuable!
You don't pick losing start-ups to invest in, why aren't they after you?
You know, when I was down in that room losing my mind, you said something that made me start to see things differently.
She moved close to the bars and sat, never losing his gaze, then tilted her head and let out a soft whimper.
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The last thing he needed was Connor losing it from too much human scent his first time out.
To tell the truth, I did it because I was pissed off at him over my losing Annie.
The camera isn't worth anything but she's really disturbed at losing her pictures.
I don't think you're losing the war.
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Deidre felt the sense of losing it again.
She willed herself there, concentrating hard to keep from losing the connection.
She was silent, surprised as much by his information as she was by the turning of her stomach at the thought of losing Rhyn.
After all his sacrifices, after losing Lilith and Katie to Rhyn, he wasn.t sure what he.d do if Hannah chose someone other than him as her mate.
I.m losing patience with you, my pet.
Like his sisters and advisors, he was losing faith that his nishani existed.
If A'Ran had mated with a proper nishani, we'd not be losing this war.
Mison might try to blow A'Ran up, or the Council change its mind, or A'Ran would destroy everything to win his war, even if it meant losing her.
I need to tell you something that is going to change everything for you, and I am so afraid of losing you, I just don't know how.
Well, we don't have to worry about him losing it and feeding on mom.
She finally turned to him, and by the set of her jaw he knew he was fighting a losing battle.
Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly.
Other columns after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused masses.
It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer--that's how I regard him--but you want to cure him from love of him.
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it.
I knew I was losing control and I should have stopped then.
You could lie and tell him Humphries said it wasn't really his fault and his mother was just upset at losing a daughter.
I've been afraid of losing him my whole life.
It was good that Cora had faith in Gabriel when he was losing death dealers who no longer believed in him.
It includes an immense high and broken plateau which spreads from south-west to north-east, losing in width and altitude as it advances north-east.
Every time the subject of your father came up, you got defensive and I backed off because I was afraid of losing you.
It's the only deal I ever lost that I didn't mind losing.
But I wouldn't want to take a chance on losing you.
No reason except the fact that she was losing a lot of sleep.
She didn't want to think about losing the man who made her feel something so strong for the first time in her life.
Gods, but he could smell her sweet scent! Her large eyes seemed to see right through him. He feared reaching out, in case she slid through his fingers like smoke. He'd lost her in life; he wasn't going to risk losing her in his dreams. He could imagine closing the distance between them, sweeping her up into his arms, and making love to her on the beach.
No one more than me. I've got to deal with losing him and trying to manage you all.
Will you promise to protect Hannah, Toby and everyone else, even if it means losing me?
He was losing time to find her.
Both were in their late 30's, losing their hair, gaining a mid-section and happily married.
He apparently was given a whiff of the bigs in a losing September when a few fortunate minor leaguers get a peek of how the other side lives.
She didn't seem shocked at losing her business associate.
You loved me enough to risk losing me, and almost did, just because it was the right thing to do.
For a moment the idea of totally losing her identity was a frightening reality.
And Dad, worn out from working the farm all day; disgruntled by years of fighting a losing battle with nature - of never having enough money to take care of his family properly.
I want to adopt Jonathan, but I'm afraid of losing him.
We've lost one child already and I don't think I could stand losing Jonathan as well.
She wasn't about to go through losing someone she cared about or letting Darian go through his loss again.
But doing so also meant sacrificing her independence and the risk of losing everything that meant something to her, a potential lifetime of pain.
For the first time in her life, she thought she'd found someone she wasn't sure she could challenge without losing herself in the game.
The idea of losing herself to Darian was more appealing than she expected.
He didn't know if she still yearned for her husband during a time when marriages among servants were arranged, but there was nothing that could soothe the ache a mother felt at losing her child.
Could you live through losing Damian?
I'm losing vamps right and left to them.
That she'd had a god off balance for so long—and it took losing her magic for him to finally score—was an accomplishment.
She couldn't let it stop her now, though this kind of fear was far different than that of losing her life or failure on a mission.
She was losing blood fast, her movements growing heavy.
Her chest grew almost too tight to breathe at the thought of losing him so soon.
Panic rose within him at the thought of losing his little brother, especially now that Damian was a father.
He was too wise to risk losing her before he learned her secrets.
He didn't need the distraction of worrying about the queen while trying to prevent them from losing the war!
Somehow I think I'll wind up on the losing side no matter what happens.
If you're so concerned about losing money, why don't you just give it up?
Losing him was no longer a possibility.
The only thing I'm worried about is losing you.
Why would he be worried about losing her?
Why was he so concerned about losing her?
Xander rubbed his face, agitated at losing his dinner and his night of fun.
The thought of losing her job on the first day made her eyes water.
Losing her temper wasn't going to get her anywhere, especially now that she knew he was trying to provoke her.
You won't risk losing it to sue me, he said and reached for her injured arm.
Losing his family at such an early age, I understand why, she said, thoughts on her cousins.
He hated any feeling, especially the ones that told him he wasn't going to be able to live with losing Jessi.
Unable to sort through why he was so close to losing it, he wiped the blood from his face onto his arm and trailed her.
Rarely losing touch of earth, and sometimes of the earth earthy, she is still at heart a spiritualist.
Of the immigrant arrivals for the forty-seven years given, 1,331,536 were Italians, 4 1 4,973 Spaniards, 170,293 French, 37,953 Austrians, 35,435 British, 30,699 Germans, 25,775 Swiss, 19,521 Belgians, and the others of diverse nationalities, so that Argentina is in no danger of losing her Latin character through immigration.
In this way the medusa sinks from an independent per sonality to an organ of the polyp-colony, becoming a so-called medusoid gonophore, or bearer of the reproductive organs, and losing gradually all organs necessary for an independent existence, namely those of sense, locomotion and nutrition.
The speaker seeks to make intelligible the appearance of art and contrivance in the world as a result of a natural settlement of the universe (which passes through a succession of chaotic conditions) into a stable condition, having a constancy in its forms, yet without its several parts losing their motion and fluctuation.
He formed a comprehensive theory of the variations of climate with latitude and season, and was convinced of the necessity of a circulation of water between the sea and rivers, though, like Plato, he held that this took place by water rising from the sea through crevices in the rocks, losing it .s dissolved salts in the process.
After losing most of his companions he himself and the rest perished in a rapid on the Niger at Busa, having been attacked from the shore by order of a chief who thought he had not received suitable presents.
By this time Dozsa was losing control of the rabble, which had fallen under the influence of the socialist parson of Czegled, Lorincz Meszaros.
Losing them it might sink into a lifeless theory.
In this way we can reconcile the fact that the sun is certainly losing heat with the fact that the change in temperature has not been large enough to be perceived within historic times.
The Manchus and Mongols are chiefly Buddhist, with letters derived from the ancient Syriac. The Manchus are now said to be gradually falling under the influence of Chinese civilization, and to be losing their old nomadic habits, and even their peculiar language.
A powerful but not disinterested ally was found in the king's uncle, Agesilaus, who hoped to rid himself of his debts without losing his vast estates.
The chief adviser of Theodoric, the East Gothic king in Italy, he accepted with ardour that monarch's great scheme, if indeed, he did not himself originally suggest it, of welding Roman and Goth together into one harmonious state which should preserve the social refinement and the intellectual culture of the Latin-speaking races without losing the hardy virtues of their Teutonic conquerors.
Other enemies and rivals also joined in the attack, and for some time Firdousi's position was very precarious, though his pre-eminent talents and obvious fitness for the work prevented him from losing his post.
Events had shown that, even after losing half a million of men in Russia, he was a match for her and Prussia combined.
The autocrat felt cramped and chafed on all sides by the necessity of posing as a constitutional sovereign; and, while losing something of the old rigidity, he lost very much of the old energy, both in thought and action.
Here it becomes encysted, and losing its boring apparatus and claw-bearing processes remains for a time quiescent.
It belongs to the group of old Slavonic states which have preserved their nationality while losing their political independence.
About the same time Martin Luther was in the full course of his protest against the papal supremacy and had already burnt the pope's bull at Worms. The two opponents were girding themselves for the struggle; and what the Church of Rome was losing by the defection of the Augustinian was being counterbalanced by the conversion of the founder of the Society of Jesus.
The university of Paris had reached its zenith at the time of the council of Constance (1418), and was now losing its intellectual leadership under the attacks of the Renaissance and the Reformation.
In 1199-1201 he was supporting in turn Cathal Carrach and Cathal Crovderg for the native throne, but he was expelled from Limerick in 1203, and, losing his Connaught, though not his Munster estates, died in 1205.
In a pitched battle fought on the 10th of January 1904 at Jidballi in the Nogal country the enemy were routed, losing over loon men in killed alone, while the British loss in killed and wounded was 58.
As native influences, however, began to reassert themselves in the Nile valley, Alexandria gradually became an alien city, more and more detached from Egypt; and, losing much of its commerce as the peace of the empire broke up during the 3rd century A.D., it declined fast in population and splendour.
The interesting nomadic tribe of Karagasses, in the Sayan mountains, is disappearing; the few representatives are rapidly losing their anthropological.
Seneca even made the discussion of such problems into a regular discipline, claiming that their concrete character gave an interest in morality to those who had no love for abstractions; while they prevented those who had from losing themselves in the clouds.
The German volunteers, forming about 15%, had to evacuate according to the armistice of July 3, losing the advantages of the Dec. agreement.
In the care and defence of her young the vixen displays extraordinary solicitude and boldness, altogether losing on such occasions her accustomed timidity and caution.
The Boers had firearms, the Zulus their assegais only, and after a three hours' fight the Zulus were totally defeated, losing thousands killed, while the farmers' casualties were under 1 Captain Allen Francis Gardiner (1 79418 5 1) left Natal in 1838, subsequently devoting himself to missionary work in South America, being known as the missionary to Patagonia.
On the night of the 23rd of May Smith made an unsuccessful attack on the Boer camp, losing his guns and fifty men killed and wounded.
After losing many men the Great King comes back to the place where he crossed the Danube, finds the Ionians still guarding the bridge in spite of the attempts of the Scyths to make them desert, and safely re-enters his own dominions.
According to the hypothesis of Waldeyer and Thiersch there is perfect equilibrium between the normal epithelium and its supporting structure, the connective tissue, but with advancing age this balance is upset owing to the connective tissue gradually losing its restraining power.
At mid-day next day the Zulu army made a desperate attack, lasting over four hours, on Wood's camp at Kambula; the enemy - over 20,000 strong - was driven off, losing fully 1000 men, while the British casualties were 18 killed and 65 wounded.
Unfortunately the national art is losing its distinctive type through contact with western civilization.
Processes of annealing, or very gradual cooling, are intended to relieve these strains, but such processes are only completely effective when the cooling, particularly through those ranges of temperature where the glass is just losing the last traces of plasticity, is extremely gradual, a rate measured in hours per degree Centigrade being required.
Above the level of the ground-water the soil is kept moist by capillary attraction and by evaporation of the water below, by rainfall, and by movements of the ground-water; on the other hand, the upper layers are constantly losing moisture by evaporation from the surface and through vegetation.
But with the extension of the East and West trade beyond the confines of the Baltic, this association by the end of the century was losing its position of leadership. Its inheritance passed to the gradually forming union of towns, chiefly those known as Wendish, which looked to Lubeck as their head.
It was not so much the value of Tacna and Arica that put difficulties in the way of a settlement as the fact that the national pride of the Peruvians ill brooked the idea of permanently losing all claim to this section of country.
He had valued more than anything else a teacher's influence over other minds, and as he began to feel that he was losing it he grew jealous of the success of those who had outgrown this influence.
By repeated hammering and polishing the expert obtains such control of the wood-grain pattern that its sinuosities and eddies seem to have developed symmetry without losing anything of their fantastic grace.
Since the establishment of the privileged province they have lost the Ottoman support which used to compensate for their numerical inferiority as compared with the Christians; and they are fast losing also their old habits and distinctiveness.
One of the greatest difficulties in the treatment of gold by amalgamation, and more particularly in the treatment of pyrites, arises from the so-called " sickening " or " flouring " of the mercury; that is, the particles, losing their bright metallic surfaces, are no longer capable of coalescing with or taking up other metals.
The 6th Corps only was severely shaken, the 4th (the best in the whole army), though it had fought hard twice within fortyeight hours, losing nearly 30% of its strength, was still well in hand, and the 3rd, 2nd and Imperial Guards were almost intact.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Dahlberg leading the way, the army reached Grimsted in Laaland without losing a man.
There is also a great seasonal change in appearance and colour in this squirrel, owing to the ears losing their tufts of hair and to the bleaching of the tail.
The body is continually losing mass by the loss of individual molecules in this way, and this explains the process of evaporation.
Eugene was now closely engaged with the elector of Bavaria, and both sides were losing heavily.
In order to serve Indian interests he played off British, Spanish and American interests against one another, but before he died he saw that he was fighting in a losing cause, and, changing his policy, endeavoured to provide for the training of the Muscogees in the white man's civilization.
Englishmen, wandering inland and losing their way, have been found and brought back by them.
That city, founded by Alexander the Great about the time when Greece, in losing her national independence, lost also her intellectual supremacy, was in every way admirably adapted for becoming the new centre of the world's activity and thought.
The paper failed in less than three weeks, the printers losing only $50 or $60 by the experiment.
On the 27th cf November, after losing 12,000 men, the assault was abandoned.
In the Baltic, where the water is gradually losing its saline constituents, thus becoming less adapted for the development of marine species, the herring continues to exist in large numbers, but as a dwarfed form, not growing either to the size or to the condition of the North-Sea herring.
Af ter losing the commander in the Philippines and discovering Borneo, the two surviving ships reached the Moluccas late in 1520.
But the Romanists (who form 13% of the electors) are steadily growing in numbers and in influence, while the Christian Catholics are losing ground rapidly, the highest number of votes received by a candidate for the conseil superieur having fallen from 2003 in 1874 to 806 in 1890 and 507 in 1906, while they are abandoning the country churches (some were lost as early as 1892) which they had taken from the Romanists in the course of the Kulturkampf.
Losing with the dissolution of the Western Empire its position as the state church, it became itself a new empire, the heir of the glory and dignity of Rome, and the greatest influence making for the peace and unity of the western world.
After a very severe struggle he was repulsed with the loss of a quarter of his men, Jackson's divisions suffering even more severely and losing nearly all their generals and colonels.
Again want of support checked the Federals and the fight became stationary, both sides losing many men.
Still, Lee was losing men, few it is true, but most precious, since it was impossible to replace them, while the North poured unlimited numbers into the Federal camps.
From that time he played a losing game.
The government had been losing ground in the country, and Mr Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill were conspicuously in alliance in advocating the use of the budget for introducing drastic reforms in regard to licensing and land, which the resistance of the House of Lords prevented the Radical party from effecting by ordinary legislation.
But while thus gaining power in one direction, the Society was losing it in another.
Losing his cause, he appealed to the parlement of Paris, and it, to decide the issue raised by Ricci, required the constitutions of the Jesuits to be produced in evidence, and affirmed the judgment of the courts below.
The rivers of Canada, except the St Lawrence, are losing their importance as means of communication from year to year, as railways spread over the interior and cross the mountains to the Pacific; but from the point of view of the physical geographer there are few things more remarkable than the intricate and comprehensive way, in which they drain the country.
They made use of no intercalation, and by losing a fourth of a day every year, the commencement of the year went back one day in every period of four years, and consequently made a revolution of the seasons in 1461 years.
Even this function is losing its significance.
As yet no means are known which call so much into action as a great war, that rough energy born of the camp, that deep impersonality born of hatred, that conscience born of murder and cold-bloodedness, that fervour born of effort in the annihilation of the enemy, that proud indifference to loss, to one's own existence, to that of one's fellows, to that earthquake-like soul-shaking which a people needs when it is losing its vitality."
When the molecule is losing energy the intensity of each kind of radiation depends principally on the rapidity with which it can be renewed by molecular impacts.
The real causes, however, which kept the government in office, were gradually losing their validity.
In the Straits his ship suffered heavily, losing 130 officers and men.
After annexation, the city of Ferrara sank rapidly from her perhaps artificial prosperity to the dead level, losing two-thirds of her population in the process.
Near at hand are the ruins of Cranii, which afford fine examples of Greek military architecture; and at the west side of the harbour there is a curious stream, flowing from the sea, and employed to drive mills before losing itself in caverns inland.
After some successes he was defeated by Tilly at Hochst in June 1622; then, dismissed from Frederick's service, he entered that of the United Provinces, losing an arm at the battle of Fleurus, a victory he did much to win.
The little treatise became widely popular, gaining rather than losing popularity in the 18th century.
It was secularized in 1803 and was given to Prussia, and after losing it for a few years that country regained it by the settlement of 1815.
The destroyer "North Star" losing her bearings in the smoke had emerged from the smoke screen and coming under a heavy fire was reduced to a sinking condition.
It was also necessary to give the fine charcoal a thin coating of calcium oxide by soaking it in lime-water, for the temperature was so high that unless it was thus protected it was gradually converted into graphite, losing its insulating power and diffusing the current through the lining and walls of the furnace.
Professor Delitzsch estimated that i oo,000 Jews had embraced Christianity in the first three quarters of the i 9th century; and Dr Dalman of Leipzig says that " if all those who have entered the Church and their descendants had remained together, instead of losing themselves among the other peoples, there would now be a believing Israel to be counted by millions, and no one would have ventured to speak of the uselessness of preaching the Gospel to the Jews."
This brittleness has therefore in general to be mitigated or " tempered," unfortunately at the cost of losing part of the hardness proper, by reheating the hardened steel slightly,
C. Fuller, who succeeded Sir Donald Stewart as chief commissioner early in 1905, was able to report in the following year that among the Ashanti suspicion of the "white man's" ulterior motives was speedily losing ground.
We thus see that radium is continually losing matter and energy as electricity; it is also losing energy as heat, for, as was observed by Curie and Laborde, the temperature of a radium salt is always a degree or two above that of the atmosphere, and they estimated that a gramme of pure radium would emit about 100 gramme-calories per hour.
Even in these purely secular affairs, moreover, his timidity and indecision prevented him from pursuing a consistent policy; and his ill fortune, or his lack of judgment, placed him, as long as he had the power of choice, ever on the losing side.
In 1201 he went on a diplomatic mission to Philip Augustus of France, and in 1202 he returned to England to keep the kingdom in peace while John was losing his continental possessions.
In 1522 it received the arms and title of ciudad, and its church was made the cathedral of the island (Baracoa losing the honour).
He was attacked by 1200 tribesmen and utterly routed, losing 4 Krupp guns, 2 machine guns and 3000 rifles.
He arrived on the 7th of August and captured it by storm, the dervishes losing 250 killed and 50 prisoners.
The 21st Lancers gallantly charged a body of 2000 dervishes which was unexpectedly met in a khor on the left flank, and drove them westward, the Lancers losing a fifth of their number in killed and wounded.
The 16th-century methods were specially fitted for highly developed music when words were few and embodied ideas of such important emotional significance or finality that they could be constantly repeated without losing force.
But the relations of Philo- pure thought, losing their inwardness, appear as relations of of space and time; the abstract development of thought sophy nature.
The metal-work of China and Japan, so pleasantly naïve and inexpensive, though becoming undesirably modified as to design through contact with European buyers, is losing none of its matchless technique, which indeed in Japan is still being developed.
It seemed impossible to admit that an animal which lives for years without losing its gills, and is able to propagate in that state, could be anything but a perfect form.
Artillery could make little impression upon the massive walls of mud, but at last a breach was effected by mining, and the city was taken by storm, thus losing its general reputation throughout India for impregnability, which had threatened to become a political danger.
The stars are known to be continually losing enormous quantities of energy by radiating their heat into space.
This appeal has been called by a European scholar "one of the unworthiest comedies of the whole world's history," accepting the report of very partial Arabic writers that it happened when the Syrians were on the point of losing the battle.
While Mansur was thus losing Africa and Spain, he was trying to redeem the losses the empire had sustained on the northern frontier by the Byzantines.
The danger of losing more men and guns on the retreat became still greater.
Radio-active bodies are chiefly recognized by the power they possess of rendering the air in their neighbourhood conductive; hence the electroscope detects the presence of a radio-active body by losing an electric charge given to it more quickly than it would otherwise do.
The problem that now lay before the successful invaders was how to deal with the indigenous people, probably vastly outnumbering them, without losing their own racial identity.
Whilst Sankara's chief title to fame rests on his philosophical works, as the upholder of the strict monistic theory of Vedanta, he doubtless played an important part in the partial remodelling of the Hindu system of belief at a time when Buddhism was rapidly losing ground in India.
It has the same general characteristics as the latter river, being a mountain stream near its source, and after leaving the highlands becoming sluggish and losing much of its water.
Losing this on the disgrace of Fouquet in 1661, he was appointed secretary and interpreter of Eastern languages to the king.
But it soon became evident that the Caps were playing a losing game; and, when the Riksdag met at Norrkoping on the 19th of April, they found themselves in a minority in all four estates.
Crystals of ordinary borax swell up to a very great extent on heating, losing their water of crystallization and melting to a clear white glass.
Throughout 1789 and 1790 Gustavus, in the national interests, gallantly conducted the unequal struggle with Russia, finally winning in the Svensksund (9th-loth July) the most glorious naval victory ever gained by the Swedish arms, the Russians losing one-third of their fleet and 7000 men.
He learned from him to be not a mere scholar, but something more - an acute observer, never losing sight of the actual world, and aiming not so much at correcting texts as at laying the foundation of a science of historical criticism.
The boundary with Chile was greatly modified by the results of the war of 1879-83, as determined by the treaties of 1884, 1886 and 1895, Bolivia losing her department of the littoral on the Pacific and all access to the coast except by the grace of the conqueror.
On their side, the Bulgarians were tired, far ahead of their supply depots, and losing more and more men daily from sickness.
Concord was long one of the shire-townships of Middlesex county, losing this honour in 1867.
He fought with distinction in 1812 and 1813, losing an arm at the battle of Dresden, and in 1814 was promoted colonel and appointed one of the emperor's adjutants.
The history of religions supplies us with many examples of the High God losing his hold on the people's consciousness and love.
Langton was one of the "ordainers" elected in 1310, and it was probably his connexion with this body that led to his losing the office of chancellor about this time.
In 1741 the Russian government sent out Vitus Bering, a Dane, and Alexei Chirikov, a Russian, in the ships "Saint Peter" and "Saint Paul" on a voyage of discovery in the Northern Pacific. After the ships were separated by a storm, Chirikov discovered several eastern islands of the Aleutian group, and Bering discovered several of the western islands, finally being wrecked and losing his life on the island of the Commander group that now bears his name.
Although reinforced by Walad Michael, who had now quarrelled with John, the Egyptians were a second time (25th March 1876) heavily beaten by the Abyssinians, and retired, losing an enormous quantity of both men and rifles.
Leeuwenhoek, in 1719, made the remarkable discovery, since abundantly confirmed, that many animalculae, notably tardigrades and rotifers, may be completely desiccated and remain in that condition for long periods without losing the power of awaking to active life when moistened with water.
Owing to the silladar system, under which the Indian sowar provided his own horse and provender in return for a monthly wage, the Indian cavalry were almost to a man in debt, and therefore favoured any attempt to upset the existing regime, and with it to wipe out the moneylender and his books; and the general enlistment order passed in July 1856, for the purposes of the war in Persia, made the Hindu sepoys afraid of losing caste by crossing the sea.
His grandfather, Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich near Ross, appears to have been a doughty member of the church militant, who lost his possessions by taking the losing side in the Civil War and died in 1658 before the restoration could bring him redress.
Harley by this time was losing influence and was becoming chronically incapable of any sustained effort.
The control of the capital, the supreme command of the army in Italy and of the Mediterranean fleet, the governorship of the two Spains, the superintendence of the corn supplies, which were mainly drawn from Sicily and Africa, and on which the vast population ' of Rome was wholly dependent, were entirely in the hands of Pompey, who was gradually losing the confidence of all political parties in Rome.
His deep chestnut head and throat are diversified on either side by a line of buff, which, springing from the gape, runs upward to the eye, in front of which it forms a fork, one prong passing backward above and the other below, enclosing a dark glossy-green patch, and both losing themselves in the elongated feathers of the hind-head and nape.
After losing the Hull chaplaincy through a change of ministry in 1714, he devoted himself to writing.
The district, which was in a chronically disturbed state before the annexation, was not reduced till two years afterwards, many officers losing their lives, among them Phayre, the first deputy-commissioner.
It was raging from 1088 to 1091, and again from 1093 to 1096, when Robert tired of the losing game, pawned his duchy to his brother and went off on the First Crusade.
Such as survived had now to choose between losing the.one or the other section of their lands; those whose holding was mainly Norman adhered to Philip; those who had more land in England sacrificed their transmarine estates.
The new government lasted less than two years, and was slowly losing prestige all the time.
The younger Edward ended by losing his health and his wealth in an unnecessary war beyond the Pyrenees.
The greater part of Poitou, Quercy and Rouergue had been lost, and the English cause was everywhere losing ground, when a new danger was developed.
The English fought out the losing game with a wonderful obstinacy.
For, in their joy at being quit of taxation, men forgot that they were losing the lever by which their fathers had been wont to move the crown to constitutional concessions.
Austria, afraid of losing her influence in.
He served in the Peninsular Campaign, and at the battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) he was twice wounded, losing his right arm.
Since the middle of the 19th century the city has yielded more and more to western influences, and is fast losing its oriental character.
Above all, many humiliating proofs that England was losing her place among the nations came out in these days, the discovery being then new and unendurable.
Hence in part arose the maritime character of its inhabitants; and when they had once taken to the sea, the string of neighbouring islands, Ceos, Cythnos and others, some of which lay within sight of their coasts, and from one to another of which it was possible to sail without losing sight of land, served to tempt them on to further enterprises.
There we are told that 12,000 Israelites, without losing a single man, slew every male Midianite, children included, and every Midianite woman that had known a man, and took so much booty that there had to be special legislation as to how is should be divided.
On the 29th of November the Assembly decreed that every nonjuring clergyman must take within eight days the civic oath, substantially the same as the oath previously administered, on pain of losing his pension and, if any troubles broke out, of being deported.
And after losing Oropus, Amphipolis, Cardia, Chios, Cos, Rhodes, Byzantium, shall we fight about the shadow of Delphi?"
The Whig ministry, then slowly but surely losing the support of the country, were divided in opinion as to the propriety of prosecuting this zealous parson.
The wide heated plains of the Sahara, and in a lesser degree the corresponding zone of the Kalahari in the south, have an exceedingly scanty rainfall, the winds which blow over them from the ocean losing part of their moisture as they pass over the outer highlands, and becoming constantly drier owing to the heating effects of the burning soil of the interior; while the scarcity of mountain ranges in the more central parts likewise tends to prevent condensation.
These military successes did not prevent the Directory, like the Thermidorians, from losing ground in the country.
Amid the wreck of the party - Mr Balfour and several of his colleagues themselves losing their seats - he had the consolation of knowing that the tariff reformers won the only conspicuous successes of the election.
He ran ten times, winning six and losing four races.
He was taken prisoner by the Dauphinois in 1325, thereby losing important estates.
The sect gradually died out after losing the protection of the common people, whose sympathy was now transferred to the austere Observants and their miracle-worker Capistrano.
While the nobles had been losing power with regard to the ruler they had been increasing it at the expense of the peasants.
I can't comprehend losing three years of life and a lifetime of memories.
I was just a stupid teenager; mad as shit on my shoe at losing my best friend.
The Guardians deserved this after losing so many of them.
He was losing established Guardians—mostly in Europe—and an entire class of new recruits.
He was serious about not losing.
Dean grabbed the front seat for balance, nearly losing his beads as they joined the flow.
The only danger he saw of losing his mate – again – was if she had any outstanding debt to Darkyn.
Not even the thought of losing her soul could rival the sorrow she felt knowing she'd disappoint him one last time.
It was nothing but pure jealousy that guided her thoughts – and fear of losing him.
His eyes were warm, his features losing their gravity as he gave a genuine smile.
It shouldn.t have taken almost losing him for her to realize how vulnerable he was.
He had every right to feel vindicated after losing his own potential mate and son so long ago.
That she'd had a god off balance for so long—and it took losing her magic for him to finally score—was an accomplishment.
Since you choose to deliver the magic waters yourself, we can't risk losing Oceanan's support as you did Nilian last night.
I plan to indulge in a favorite pastime - losing myself in a book.
I think of the center for rehabilitating drug addicts which was faced with losing its housing benefits.
As president of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee, Uday allegedly tortures athletes for losing games.
Riders losing control through left-hand bends accounted for four of these incidents, two of these resulted in death.
While their companies were losing undeclared billions, high executives were rewarding themselves with kings ' ransoms in salaries, options and bonuses.
As long as we were having fun and getting to hear the best bluegrass in the world and nobody was losing, who cared!
Drivers whose breath tests are positive, or refuse to provide a sample of breath tests are positive, or refuse to provide a sample of breath, face losing their license for 12 months.
Preston won the Second Division championship the next season losing only seven matches in the League.
Use a fully adjustable head collar to avoid losing control of the horse.
Losing the daily commute can also gain valuable extra time to devote to the business.
The recent report shows that, in a fierce global competition for the best talent, the UK is in danger of losing.
These range from the most fundamental - giving the wrong speech - to losing composure in front of a live audience.
In the unlikely event of a child losing consciousness, do not give them anything to swallow.
Of course, after these outbursts, I was truly contrite, - until the next time I felt myself losing total control.
Once you've put it on, losing weight is a much, much bigger battle than thin people can even countenance.
Around the area he is losing the hair it looks like he has dandruff, is the normal during molting season?
Labor also suffered a drubbing in Tower Hamlets, losing overall control.
Mido 7 - Losing bulk has seen him add dynamism in wide areas to his game.
The first time you take ecstasy is a bit like losing your virginity.
Fans will be saddened also by the film inevitably losing much of its source material, like the adorable Dobby the house elf scenes.
The larger trees are fast losing that look of smiling youth which so enchants us in young newly planted wood.
I play better than I used to, but I've a knack for losing the endgame.
Please ask us for an application form to avoid losing entitlement.
This allows some experimentation without losing previously refined values.
Keeping fit and healthy is not simply about losing weight, building muscles or becoming a fitness fanatic.
The loser goes on to play the National League Two losing finalist.
The body is shaping up, losing flab, becoming stronger.
Daylight fill-in flash Avoid losing your subject in a shadow when there is a strong light in the background.
Second half goal from Tony & Harvey finished off an increasingly fractious game, the students evidently not being used to losing.
Thus losing the simplicity of a relatively free-standing ErrorDocument script.
A recently published study in Science magazine indicates that up to 90% of antarctic glaciers are losing mass.
Cronus later led the Titans in their losing war against Zeus and the Olympian gods.
The shock of losing her beloved grandmother at the age of fourteen made her start to question what life was really all about.
But there are signs that offering instant gratification in this way may be losing its appeal.
Echo took fourth place but Bertie retired after losing her spinnaker halyard up the mast.
However, following the war, the unit seemed to be losing its impetus through government indifference.
It seems inequitable that a losing party should benefit in this way and that the Court Service should be unable to recover the money.
The joint entity became technically insolvent in February, losing almost $ 500 million of investment.
I used to do forward laterals, but they gave me so much pain - am I losing anything by not doing them?
Always wear a surf leash to prevent you from losing your surfboard (or bodyboard ).
I would say that as far as losing I try and be a gracious loser.
There were rumors most important losing was the fourth.
In some bad losing runs I suppose you could be betting to win 5% + your previous 10 losing bets.
Painting can attain the same joyous losing of the ME in a supernatural revelation.
Put me right on the things that are worth losing!
This was followed by a near perfect performance of ' Am I really losing You ' (Window of Life ).
Children then try to work out a winning or ' not losing ' strategy within those rules.
The option to bet on a team losing is another major feature of betting exchanges.
Down time losing meet a future on an earnings the talks remotely.
A battle ensues which Buffy is clearly losing, but as all seems lost Giles appears to stop Willow.
This reduces stress on the plant and therefore reduces lost growing time and greatly reduces the risk of losing plants after propagation.
Big News Network... acid to make it a far more effective means of losing weight.
Generous health insurance losing market share business where scale becoming a Mecca.
The winning team will receive a memento of the challenge paid for by the losing team.
Her family memoir Losing the Dead, is available from Vintage.
The upward swing enjoyed over the past three years is losing momentum.
They sound muscular without being over-bearing, strung out without losing form.
I never tho t I could talk to my mom but after losing nan I used to turn to her when I was low.
Atomic clocks are accurate to the nearest nanosecond - equivalent to losing or gaining one second in about 33 years!
Milton batted first and things got off to a bad start, Milton losing both openers with just 7 runs on the board.
So passionate is our love affair that our old paramour, the pub, is losing out.
Honda were losing over 1,000 workers from their manufacturing plant in Yokohama.
Losing an entire command platoon had thrown the communist offensive into total disarray.
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He had had pleurisy in the war and was never robust; in 1929 he started losing weight and was diagnosed as having TB.
May I suggest you revert to the old site as soon as possible, before yo start losing recommendations and your hit rate plummets.
Also losing the pound is part of our identity loss.
Farmers in upland areas may be losing upwards of 5% of lambs to fox predation.
Despite losing the second game, Gaultier eventually prevailed in 43 minutes.
The Beast Husband and wife were in the midst of a violent quarrel, and hubby was losing his temper.
The group's shares have suffered in recent weeks with the south African rand losing more than 20% against the dollar.
Whoever misses out can always blame the poor referees who all were given top marks in round 9 despite Duffield losing to Edgbaston.
Effectively losing his discard, he would have to sail a near faultless regatta to regain his crown.
Losing my Friday night to an orchestra rehearsal didn't exactly get me off to the best start.
Some felt reluctant to disclose concerns over family issues to their friends for fear of losing respect within the community.
Many anti-spam spam remedy services are crude and are capable of losing valuable business communications.
Is it really worth losing your job or suffering the repercussions from a lack of growth in the economy?
So much contemporary drama seems to be about men who are either emotionally repressed or losing it completely.
It slows down, losing kinetic energy as its potential energy, of electrical repulsion, increases in compensation.
Despite not losing a game in the group stages Furley Park finished runners up in their group.
The VIII had a very strong if somewhat scrappy row, achieving 2nd place (losing to Caius by one second ).
Against competitors who show no such scruples, however, the ethical advertisers face a losing battle in the marketplace.
The Joiner's is losing out to what Pete Turner calls " Japanese seaweed.
At present, the dredged sediments are disposed of outside the harbor, thus losing valuable mud from its ecosystem.
If your idea of losing weight is to paint a thinner self-portrait -- you MIGHT be an artist.
Mr Davis has committed the cardinal sin of losing ground at every stage this week.
Many anti-spam spam spam remedy services are crude and are capable of losing valuable business communications.
Like SBS, COM is losing money and failing to attract a suitor willing to take on the whole division.
It is very important in these situations, that the winning team do not taunt the losing team in any way.
Gaultier bounced back after losing the opening game to win the second and third but visibly tired in the fourth as Ricketts tightened up.
He was severely wounded, losing both his sight and his hands when the Japanese forced him to dismantle a booby trap.
In the 1930s Reading were almost unbeatable at Elm Park, losing only 13 games in 8 seasons.
My fear of losing control was totally vindicated by going to hospital.
I had to come to terms with losing my hair, and we had fun going to choose a wig.