The idea, so potent at Anvik, of having a tea-kettle in reservewell, the notion lost weight, and the kettle seemed to gain.

Looking at himself in the glass, he had to admit his face was haggard, and thinner than it had been, and he knew he had lost weight.

After losing weight during the first three days, like all new-born children, he was now growing and filling out like a strong, healthy human plant.

You've lost weight, man; and you've no flesh to spare.

They looked well fed, and wore fine linen, whereas Narayan Singh was in rags and had lost weight in our recent desert marching, so that his cheek-bones stood out and he looked superficially much more like a man at bay than they did.

She had lost weight, he thought, but it was hard to tell, the way she dressed.

The practice was secret every afternoon, and the coaches lost weight eluding the newspaper reporters.

Tom said that his wife had lost weight since the sad event.

"To ascertain to what extent the children under their care have lost weight as a result of the war dietary, the Henley-on-Thames Guardians have decided to have them weighed periodically.

he is losing weight continuously.

[Illustration: THE "QUIET WALK" OF THE NEW YORK SUFFRAGISTS, WHOM THE POLICE WOULD NOT PERMIT TO PARADE] To the average unprejudiced man the old arguments against political equality have almost entirely lost weight.