lose one's way
Example Sentences
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Borrow’s is a wonderful book for one to lose one’s way in, among the dense undergrowth, but it is a still grander book for the reader to lose himself in.
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Seccombe, Thomas
It is so easy to lose one’s way - when one is young.’
From In Kedar's Tents by Merriman, Henry Seton
And Oscar said, “No; better freeze than lose one’s way, and——” They knew he was thinking of the shepherd lad and the Ugly Leap.
From The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Searchfield, Emilie
"Who can say that?" rejoined I; "it's no difficult matter to lose one's way in a dense forest, where the tracks are unknown."
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
The rich luxuriance of movements and of individual characters chokes our path; it is a labyrinth in which one may well lose one's way and fail to see the wood for the trees.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry
