1 I looked at him, lost in astonishment.
2 His voice lost itself in the calm of the evening.
3 I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost.
4 'The only book I had left, and I thought I had lost it,' he said, looking at it ecstatically.
5 It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling.
6 If they left the bank in their canoes they would get lost in it, as we would be if we attempted to move.
7 It looked as though after wrenching that thing from somebody ashore he had lost his balance in the effort.
8 I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.
9 No; I can't forget him, though I am not prepared to affirm the fellow was exactly worth the life we lost in getting to him.
10 The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it for ever.
11 Sometimes I would pick out a tree a little way ahead to measure our progress towards Kurtz by, but I lost it invariably before we got abreast.
12 I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as harmless as a little child, but I don't like to be dictated to.'
13 So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.
14 It had lost its covers, and the pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness; but the back had been lovingly stitched afresh with white cotton thread, which looked clean yet.
15 He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.
16 Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
17 But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.
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