By acting in this manner, he never loses sight of his master.
But by the time it gets to the third person--the outsider--it loses power.
Then offer him double that sum; a banker never loses an opportunity of doubling his capital."
If any one becomes too much interested in them, and sees them over much, he loses all interest in ordinary things.
"To be sure," laughed the Frenchman; "one suspects it will be long before mademoiselle loses interest in the rue de la Paix."
In front and behind, the valley winds on between the hill-sides until it widens out and finally loses itself in the barren, sandy desert.
"Ah," replied Colbert, "that is because your eminence, absorbed as you are by your disease, entirely loses sight of the character of Louis XIV."
His year, strictly speaking, consists only of the four summer months; and when by any means he is prevented from making the proper use of them, he loses a whole year.
Whatever is the psychological truth of this contention it is undeniable that the mind measurably loses grip on one idea the moment the attention is projected decidedly ahead to a second or a third idea.
Roasted coffee loses from 20 to 30 per cent, by sufficient roasting, and the powder suffers much by exposure to the air; but, while raw, it not only does not lose its flavour for a year or two, but improves by keeping.