lose consciousness of

Example Sentences

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Apparently an abattoir was languishing nearby, discouraged in its yearning to lose consciousness of self in the world's oblivion.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph

Though his body slept, never for a second did his brain lose consciousness of the cold and of the sense of travel.

From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Dawson, Coningsby

We can be happy only by the complete annihilation of our whole being; to be happy means with us to lose consciousness of ourselves.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Hueffer, Francis

I lose consciousness of the objects about me, the very walls dissolve away in a mist, and I am lifted as it were on softly beating pinions and borne swift and far like a bird.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer

Yvonne had settled herself in a corner of the tap-room on a bench and had tried to lose consciousness of her surroundings.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness