He had staked his all and lost, and he was resolved to abandon all further efforts to press his invention on an unfeeling and a thankless world.

Describing them at a later date he says: "Much time and expense were lost in consequence of my following the plan adopted in England of laying the conductors beneath the ground.

Congress was equally lax, and so the Government lost its great opportunity, for when, in after years, the question of government ownership again came up, it was found that either to purchase outright or to parallel existing lines would cost many more millions than it would have taken thousands in 1844.

Strange how, when he lost his following, his brilliancy all went with it.

It failed because one day two of us lost our tempersone bragged, the other bullied.

Certainly, if we had lost you, it would have made a difference.

She pointed along the path I had come by, as if she feared her child had wandered to the highway or been lost amid the wild brushwood that grew on that side of the vineyard.

she sobbed, "I have lost my box of peanut candy, that I bought in the store, and I can't find it, and I'm so miserable!

So Buddy and Brighteyes went home happy, and so did the little girl, with her white box which she had found again after she had lost it.

"To the top of the hill, to see the fine view," replied Brighteyes, as she paused to get her breath, which she had nearly lost.

By sliding down the other side With sandals full of sand?" Then Buddy tried to do a little dance, but what do you s'pose happened? Why, he lost his balance, and toppled over, and then he grabbed hold of Brighteyes, who was looking at the fine view, and she toppled over, and then, wiggily-waggily, woggily-wee!

and he would wave a flag he had made out of a piece of white cloth, red flannel and a bit of Brighteyes' blue hair ribbon, that she had lost.

Keep close to me, and don't go in very far, or you may get lost.

No, sir, there they were lost in that big cave!

the more they tried to get out, the more lost they became.

Then I never can find Buddy and Brighteyes, and they'll be lost in there all nightandoh dearwhy did they go in without me?"

But he was a wise old rabbit, and, to make sure he would not get lost himself, he took a string, and tied it to his crutch, and left the crutch outside the cave.

Her coloring helped the illusion along, the clear unsophisticated blue of her eyes, the pallor of her hair that the petals of a tea-rose could have got lost in,it was, literally, just about the tint of unbleached linenand the pearly translucence of her skin.

The battle was lost.

Vividly impressed by this idea, he started off hurriedly for his home, crying aloud"Oh, the wasted time; the lost hours; the precious moments that might have been employed in usefulness!"

There have been but two human beings in the world on whom I have bestowed my love; for, like you, I lost my parents young.

These two wereher I lost and yourself!"

"Are Mrs. Ranger and Miss Ranger at home?" asked he, mistaking her for a servant and eying her dishevelment with an expression which was not lost on her.

I'd be lost without it.

Principles of chemical engineering. SEE Walker, William H. LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON, D. C. The lost caravan.