"Lose it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through the highest human thing that love could know. Men, as well as women, have misunderstood and misinterpreted this. The love that "is not puffed up," "doth not behave itself unseemly," cannot proclaim its own virtue—to arrogate it is to lose it. But the secret of the Lord has been with those who feared Him, and it has led the world aright in spite of blunder ...
— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson
... left her, bade her hold her peace, and say nothing of Mary's fortune to any one till her rights had been absolutely acknowledged. "It will be nothing not to have it," said the doctor; "but it would be very bad to hear it was hers, and then to lose it." ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... with downcast look, As fearful that I might refuse it; I told him, when the gift I took, My only fear should be, to lose it. ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron
... very dress I wore; and I heard it said that the lad who came with me had taken me away from my father's house; a thing that cut me to the heart, showing how low my good name had fallen, since it was not enough that I should lose it by my flight, but they must add with whom I had fled, and that one so much beneath me and so unworthy of my consideration. The instant I heard the notice I quitted the city with my servant, who now began to show signs of wavering in his fidelity to me, and the same night, for fear of discovery, ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... reign, And I will reign alone; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
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