Paradise Lost

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an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.

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Susanna Clarke’s haunting, haunted Piranesi is one of the most astonishing books I’ve read in a very long time, sort of Narnia meets Paradise Lost meets Borges.
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Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.
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So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.
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“The origin of Brokpas is lost in antiquity,” a research article from the University of Delhi notes.
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The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.
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This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
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How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words!
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Kum Kale has been a brilliant bit of work, though I fear we have lost nearly a quarter of our effectives.
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Paradise Lost

(1667) An epic by John Milton. Its subject is the Fall of Man; it also tells the stories of the rebellion and punishment of Satan and the creation of Adam and Eve. Milton declares that his aim in the poem is “to justify the ways of God to men.”