"If anyone's expecting me in Downing Street before six o'clock," he observed, "I rather think he's backed a loser.

True, the loans had only cost her the paper the notes were printed on, so that in no case could she prove a loser, but how could she be a gainer?

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

This tremendous War, which the peoples of Europe have fought and suffered, has not only bled the losers almost to death, but it has deeply perturbed the very life and existence of the victors.

Even if we come out safe, we shall come out losers.

Both sides end up losers.

To this the Panther sharply had replied; But having gain'd a verdict on her side, She wisely gave the loser leave to chide; Well satisfied to have

And so we parted; the players retired to their supper and we to our homes, all good-humoured and all happyexcept the losers.

She had no patience with Marythat wild, unkempt, ungraceful creature, who could be as happy as summer days are long, racing about the hills with her bamboo alpenstock, rioting with a pack of fox-terriers, practising long losers, rowing on the lake, doing all things unbecoming Lady Maulevrier's granddaughter.

The slanderer is plainly a fool, because he maketh wrong judgments and valuations of things, and accordingly driveth on silly bargains for himself, in result whereof he proveth a great loser.

Pecuniary losses, unless they reduced the loser absolutely to beggary, moved him very little.

'Why, sir,' I ses, 'these people as finds dawgs 'ave their feelins as well as losers 'as theirs, and sometimes when they can't find the owner, they sells the animal.'

[-19-] But when he appeared to be really dead, at last they openly praised the winner and abused the loser and proposed that everything in the world which they could devise be given to Caesar.

I guess you ain't going to turn up a hard loser.

Seeing that the fight was one-sided, the bartender hastened from his retreat, dragged Petersen's champion to his feet, and flung him back into the arms of the onlookers, after which he stooped to aid the loser.

It's the game ones that cry when they're licked; analyze a smilin' loser and you'll find the yellow streak.