And yet I might forswear it, but that that creed divine 'Tis vain I struggle to deny, for, ah, that creed is thine!" King Chico read his lady's note and silent laid it down; Then to the window he drew nigh, and gazed upon the town; And lost in thought he pondered upon each tender line, And sudden tears and a sigh of grief were his inward sorrow's sign.

Sitting on the tree that afternoon, he had been lost in speculations as to where the ghost might have appeared.

This is the miniature I lost in the Montauk, and which I had given up as booty to the Arabs.

"Wouldn't we make it unprofitable for the redcoats!" Fernando was rather non-communicative, and sat in the bow of the boat lost in painful meditation.

But Eric was lost in wonder.

After a brief pause, in which he seemed to study the heavens still more closely, he went to the spot where the patron yet lay lost in sleep, and shook him rudely.

" Shám Babu was now convinced that no time was to be lost in demanding proper security for the loan.

The Patriots lost in the fourth quarter.

Pike, on his visit to Sandy Lake, in 1806, but it had been lost in a war excursion on the Mississippi.

Edible plants were ever more hard to find, these past days; but what there were she gathered almost automatically, herself lost in a deep preoccupation.

Edgar is lost in the quick-sands at Kelpies Flow, in accordance with an ancient prophecy.

And to-day I am of the opinion that a greatly enlarged Montenegro would run the danger of becoming a little Russia, in which the best ruler would be lost in the intricacies of the intrigues and personal ambitions that facilitate corruption and injustice, and where the worst ruler might easily become a curse to all his neighbors.

Self-reliance had been lost in past failures; I was weighed down on every side, but I struggled to bring the book somehow to a close.

Yet I feel what I have lost In him.

The outlines of grove and garden were fast being lost in the deepening dusk.

So with a stately swiftness, in the profoundest silence, the solar system fell from me as it had been a garment, until the sun was a mere star amid the multitude of stars, with its eddy of planet-specks lost in the confused glittering of the remoter light.

I suppose that I, like all other middle-aged writers, am tempted to think that my own youth is miraculously prolonged; that I have not lost in fire what I have gained in patience and width of view.

the Lark at Heaven's Gate Sings," which is a picture of a poor girl beside a table, on which she has thrown her work, and leaning back in her chair, with hands clasped behind her head, is lost in thought.

Though I do not so exactly conform to the precepts of Pythagoras, as to practise every night this solemn recollection, yet I am not so lost in dissipation as wholly to omit it; nor can I forbear sometimes to inquire of myself, in what employment my life has passed away.

Then wait just a second, good friend; you see, I'm sure, that my lover, lost in the intoxication of the moment, is down on his knees.

Between this nature, which we hear and see and touch, and that nature which the artist feels, imagines, and to which he aspires, Delsarte has placed a ladder whose base is among us, and whose summit is lost in the infinite spaces of fiction and poesy.

This was the first town we had lost in the war, for still the success of the king's affairs was very encouraging.

And so by exquisite phases, she entered at last a great vastnessa slumber-space where all things were forgotten, lost in the radiance of an unbroken peace.

For as I stood there, lost in thought, I suddenly heard the subterranean music of the enchanted castle, and saw the mountains around begin to stand on their heads, while the red-tiled roofs of Ilsenburg were dancing, and green trees flew through the air, until all was green and blue before my eyes, and I, overcome by giddiness, would assuredly have fallen into the abyss, had I not, in the dire need of my soul, clung fast to the iron cross.

One of the values we have really lost in recent fiction is the value of eloquence.