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In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding.

From Time Magazine Archive

You can hear the attempt of his breath, that unlost voice, calling us from the bottom of the world.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Leave, ah, leave,    Leave me unlost,    Force on me not    Thy fiery nearness.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

The rattling, reckless notes should be varied by those sad enough to make an unlost angel weep—an unlost angel, for, to the hot eyes of the lost, no tears can come.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Let us hear the charge, 'Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord,' and see that we carry them, untarnished and unlost, to 'the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander