If Lorenzo had resembled his grandfather and concentrated his energies upon finance and politics, there might have been a line of reigning Medicean princes in Florence half a century earlier than actually was the case, but Europe would have been distinctly the loser by the absence of the greatest personal force making for culture which characterized the Renaissance.

They discussed the matter for a long time, the one affirming the other denying the statements, until Hadifah closed the altercation by saying, "I hold to the wager, on condition that the winner takes from the loser as many male and female camels as he chooses."

" "Tut, tut," said Robin, "speak not so, Friar; the loser hath ever the right to use his tongue as he doth list.

It was a serious matter, and the worse because Crook was not a good loser: he lost his head and his temper as well as his money; and I have ever observed through life that the man who loses his temper loses himself and his friends.

p. 36.] Of all those who had embraced the cause of the young princes, William, King of Scotland, was the only considerable loser by that invidious and unjust enterprise.

[Footnote 3: 'and be loser as well as winner' If the Folio's is the right reading, then the sentence is unfinished, and should have a dash, not a period.]

[unsuccessful candidate] also-ran, loser; has-been.

It was soon evident that in the end the white man himself was the loser by this evil system.

I should not have called him a bad loser.

Man or woman, we ought to have some humane compunction, some little hesitation in sitting down to play at that game from which the winner rises only wearied with unmerited good fortune, the loser, haggard, miserable, stripped and beggared for life.

A'n't much of a loser

I was much flattered by his interest in my tales, and the only drawback to telling them was that I was often very sleepy at night, and it was sometimes very hard work to be roused and forced into a long recital before the rising bell rang, but Steerforth was resolute, and as in return he explained sums and exercises to me, I was no loser by the transaction.

the people would not work, because Mr. Fishbourne had influenced them not to do so, and he (Mr. Mason) had been a loser of one thousand pounds in consequence.

But a covenant may be made between us, by which neither party shall be a loser, and in which the law shall find no grounds of displeasure.

"When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"Webster cor.

If the policy of imperial egoism is a successful one it will be adopted by all empires alike, and whether we desire it or not, the victor in each inter-imperial war will take over the territory of the loser.

And carried off the prize, a bleating sheep; The sheep she carried easy as a cloak, And left the loser blubbering from his fall,

Ethel Pettit Roche (W), Jeffrey Roche & Clyde Roche (C); 22Jun59; R238255. Loser take all.

Loser take all.

Loser take all.

Loser take all.

Viña Delmar (A); 21Apr69; R460095. Loser takes all.

Your partiality to the pageantry of popery I do approve, and I doubt whether the world would not be a loser (in its visionary enjoyments) by the extinction of that religion, as it was by the decay of chivalry and the proscription of the heathen deities.

Long suffering had driven the old gambler to the loser's bible, Philosophy!

We will have them now and when the bet is decided the loser will drop in and pay for them.