perdu

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Small wonder that Proust, great poet laureate of reminiscence, wrote, "Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is raked alike by the old-fashioned artillery of the Churches and by the fatal weapons of precision with which the enfants perdus of the advancing forces of science are armed.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

There is one Greek book, of which I have gone through three or four copies by carrying it about in the pocket for my moments perdus.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

And you really have been fortunate enough to fall in with one of these enfans perdus?

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton

Francis Hare had thrown up his hands and said, "F�lix, nous sommes perdus."

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.