It marked the turn of the tide in a desperate campaign which might have resulted in the total loss of Canada.

He had an important business engagement for the next day, Wednesday, which he failed to keep, and this may mean a considerable loss to him.

"We've had quite a rain, sir, since I saw you last," he repeated, gloomily, "and I am freshly reminded of my irreparable loss.

But notwithstanding this severe loss, the lieutenant persevered in his resolution to grapple with his enemy, or perish in the attempt.

The excitement was great, and no little persecution and pecuniary loss ensued to the new converts.

It was in the spring of 207 B.C. that Hasdrubal, after skilfully disentangling himself from the Roman forces in Spain, and after a march conducted with great judgment and little loss through the interior of Gaul and the passes of the Alps, appeared in the country that now is the north of Lombardy, at the head of troops which he had partly brought out of Spain and partly levied among the Gauls and Ligurians on his way.

At Riga hunger and sickness have caused enormous losses amongst the population.

The stakes are high, and if on the one hand the game calls forth an immense amount of resource, skill, alertness, self-control, endurance, courage, and even tenderness, helpfulness, and fidelity; on the other hand, it is liable to let loose pretty bad passions of vindictiveness and cruelty, as well as to lead to an awful accumulation of mental and physical suffering and of actual material loss.

20,284 Comparing the whole number of men in the naval service, during this period, with the mortality from causes incidental to the service, the average annual loss was Killed in battle, .

Its consequent loss of distinction might be accompanied by an associated fading out of function, until the King became at last hardly more functional than was the late Duke of Norfolk as premier peer.

Now because of the sweet serenity of her speech, because of the calm, unswerving directness of her gaze, my Beltane felt at sudden loss, his outstretched arms sank helplessly and he fell a-stammering.

For ten minutes she spoke not, but sat, her head bowed to her knees, in a confusion of thought that threatened a temporary loss of reason.

" "I do believe you are right; but it seems a sad loss of time, and a great risk, to go through these mountains again," returned Roswell.

" Her anger at the indignity already done her whipped out the sarcasm: "By getting ready, I suppose you mean for me to pack my trunk and order the expressman at the door?" He looked at her with a long, impersonal stare which bewildered her; she was at utter loss to read its meaning until he spoke: "You are to pack what endurance you've got into your muscles.

How deep had been the influence on his mind of his mother's example may be gathered from the letter he wrote at the time of her death in 1842, when he was fifteen years old: "It is a very dreadful loss for us all, but we have been taught by that dear mother who has now been taken from us that it is not fit to grieve for those who die in the Lord, 'for they rest from their labours'....

But we cannot separate crime from its consequences; and all the reverses, the sorrows, the perils, the hardships, the humiliations, the immense losses, the dreadful calamities through which Prussia had to pass, which wrung even the heart of Frederic with anguish, were only a merited retribution.

Each class of proprietor regarded only the preservation of his own property, and had no belief in the efficacy of any kind of protection for it, except such as arose from the fear of death; nor any doubt that he was justified in procuring the infliction of that penalty to avert the slightest loss to himself.

He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and of correct business principles, and his death is not only a grievous loss to us, but to the community at large as well.

For hours the rebels vainly endeavored to break the lines of the Union forces, but in every instance they were repulsed with frightful loss, the canister mowing them down at close range.

President Wilson's messages have done as much as famine and cruel losses in the field to break the stubborn resistance of the German people.

20,284 Comparing the whole number of men in the naval service, during this period, with the mortality from causes incidental to the service, the average annual loss was Killed in battle, .

But the German women and the few men still left in the capital realize that the national life itself is at stake and accept the inevitable losses of a successful military occupation.

"Mr. JOHN BUMSTEAD, sir," explained the Judge, "is almost beside himself at the double loss he has sustained, and I think that the sight of your cane, there, maddened him with the memory it revived.

The probable loss, therefore, now to be expected, was very inconsiderable indeed.

In an ill day you betrayed their brother to his death: in an ill day you set the crown on your head; in an ill day, to your own most bitter loss, you entreated this Saxon heathenry to your help.