Loser

Examples

• The community is certainly the gainer, and no one the loser, save the poor out-of-work specialist, whose occupation has gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Let me have the straight tip and you won't be a loser. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She would be a loser in every way. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I don't want you to be a loser. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The father took a piece of paper, and wrote on it, A patient waiter is no loser. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the end, perhaps, the apprentice himself would be a loser. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I can bear the reproaches of a loser, even when that loser is a Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Nevertheless, there is my hand, in friendly witness, that I will exchange no more cuffs with thee, having been a loser by the barter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We're no losers, anyhow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you back upon your heels, so you will turn back losers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We shall be the losers, continued Sir Thomas. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Editor: Whitney