Losses

Examples

• Our losses in the Wilderness were very severe. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• About his losses, maybe; or the little retirement in the country that he's just left, eh? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Lee brought additional troops and artillery against Parke even after this was done, and made several assaults with very heavy losses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Germans suffered enormous losses and were held, after pushing in the French lines for some miles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The losses were quite heavy on both sides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What is called gross profit, comprehends frequently not only this surplus, but what is retained for compensating such extraordinary losses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Many of these losses were due to the utter incompetence of the higher command. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Confederate assaults were made with such a disregard of losses on their own side that our line of tents soon fell into their hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thirty or forty years ago, before losses and chancery suits came upon it, it was a thriving place; but now it is a desolate island indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Him Arthur now showed, with pains and care, the state of their gains and losses, responsibilities and prospects. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His losses were very heavy for that period of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Losses under this system have grown so small as to be almost incapable of mathematical calculation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The French losses were as great or greater. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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