But one course was left him: to preserve, if possible, complete silence in his command; to lie perdu in the wood, and await the occurrence of some fortunate event to extricate him from his highly-embarrassing situation.

What a pleasant morning's work it would be to unearth this gem from its dark corner, where it has lain perdu so many years!

Her affianced husband, having killed Don Felix in a duel, was obliged to lie perdu for a time, and Clara, assuming her brother's clothes and name, went in search of him.

mon heritage et le royaume d'Angleterre, que j'avoye perdu.'

Mr. Saltram, having duly deliberated the matter during the long hours of that weary night, had decided that his wisest course was to lie perdu until the last moment, the very moment of landing, and then to come boldly forward and make his claim.

J'étais perdu pour l'idéal modeste que mes anciens maîtres m'avaient inculqué.

SEE HUDSON, W. H. GALZY, JEANNE. Pays Perdu.

A la recherche du temps perdu.

[et] SODOME ET GOMORRHE II, par Marcel Proust. (His A la recherche du temps perdu, 2-3, t. 5) 3 v. © 1May22, AA19985.

(His A la recherche du temps perdu, 1.)

(A la recherche du temps perdu, t.8) © 10Nov27; AF36751.

Alice Beer (NK); 19Jan56; R163844. BEERBLOCK, MAURICE, tr. L'homme qui a perdu son nom.

The walls surrounding the pool and a cluster of picturesque pavilions in its centre were brilliantly lighted up with hundreds of cheraugs, or small oil-lamps, casting a flickering lustre upon the heads and shoulders of about five hundred men, women, and children, who were ducking and praying, à corps perdu, in the water.

MY NEW WORLD CHAPTER XXV. BIEN PERDU, BIEN CONNU CHAPTER XXVI.

Here, too, every ground-floor was a shop, open, unglazed, cavernous, where the dealer lay perdu in the gloom of midday, like a spider in the midst of his web, surrounded by piles of old bottles, old iron, old clothes, old furniture, or whatever else his stock in trade might consist of.

In company with my slender purse, and bunch of useless keys, a pencil, and a small memorandum-book, they remained perdu until that moment of accidental discovery arrived which was to test their value and place it "far above that of rubies.

Perdu! HENRI.

si une heure après mon départ la comtesse fait passer la frontière à monsieur de Flavigneul, me voilà perdu de réputation....

Je lui demande grâce et pardon, car c'est par moi que tout est découvert, par moi que tout est perdu!

Perdu par elle!

La lettre, ou vous êtes perdu....

Le malheureux, il est perdu!

* ENFANT PERDU (1851)

[120] COMME UN PERDU, 'Desperately.' VALETAILLE, 'Whole set of valets,' Composed of valet and the pejorative ending aille (Littré).

" IL EN EST COMME UN PERDU, 'He is like a man who has lost his reason.'