losers

Example Sentences

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What danger might lurk here and how easy might losels lure victims to their door!

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan

Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down. 

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Philidor, from his Cafe de la Regence, shall no longer look on greenness; the loungers and losels of the world, where now shall they haunt?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

To see our chambers filled With foreign losels; our rich fiefs and abbeys The prey of each bold scatterling, that finds No heirship in his country?

From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But ah! for shame, 810 Let not sweete poets praise, whose onely pride Is vertue to advaunce, and vice deride, Be with the worke of losels wit defamed, Ne let such verses poetrie be named!

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund