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Much depended on Rostov's winning or losing on that seven of hearts.
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And thus it is as usual to assert the impossibility of losing what is already actually lost.
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For instance, a gentleman may stake, say, five or ten louis d'or--seldom more, unless he is a very rich man, when he may stake, say, a thousand francs; but, he must do this simply for the love of the game itself--simply for sport, simply in order to observe the process of winning or of losing, and, above all things, as a man who remains quite uninterested in the possibility of his issuing a winner.
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AFTER losing them, he ran on four legs and went faster, so that I think he might have got away altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry net, and got caught by the large buttons on his jacket.
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It lasted about an hour and was terminated by the chief of the losing side deliberately permitting himself to be out-pointed, that the game might be called a draw.
One fought best in a losing game; another was too slow; another too impetuous; this one had fire and a heart of steel, but lacked endurance.
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While interviewing Lina Abu Zinada, a supervisor at the Lost Children's Care Center at the holy sites, in the afternoon, a female pilgrim from Comoros was weeping over losing her ten-year-old child who had been reported lost since morning.
Lost Children's Care Center helps to reunite families
"Eight years into a government, Labour was losing 4,000 councillors, whereas we at the moment are holding councils and in some areas making positive inroads."
Local elections 2018: Mixed night as Labour fails to make breakthrough; Labour took Plymouth from the Conservatives but was unable to seize Tory "crown jewel"
Wales' backroom team are adamant that won't be the case and that the rustiness was shaken off while losing to the Swedes on Sunday.
GriezmannWales need return to qualifying secret

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