I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a
lost soul. There was nothing interesting."
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death,--with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive,--to send me off a
lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
Island of Doctor Moreau
The voice seemed partly human, yet so hideous that it might well have emanated from the tortured throat of a
lost soul, writhing in the fires of hell.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
All at once, above Phoebus's head she beheld another head; a green, livid, convulsed face, with the look of a
lost soul; near this face was a hand grasping a poniard.--It was the face and hand of the priest; he had broken the door and he was there.
Notre Dame de Paris
But, upon my
lost soul, I won't be bad towards you again, Tess.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
Rogojin asked his question like a
lost soul appealing to some divinity, with the reckless daring of one appointed to die, who has nothing to lose.
The Idiot
It might have been a
lost soul wailing, had it not been invested with a certain sad fierceness and hungry eagerness.
White Fang
From away somewhere in the outer darkness floated in through the open door a faint, far cry--a long, sobbing wail, as of a child death- strangled in the desert, or a
lost soul borne away by the Adversary.
Can Such Things Be
Now, I'm a
lost soul, pursued by devils that torment me day and night; they keep pushing me on and on--and I'll do it, too, some of these days!" she said, clenching her hand, while an insane light glanced in her heavy black eyes.
Uncle Toms Cabin
With all Avdotya Romanovna's natural aversion and in spite of my invariably gloomy and repellent aspect--she did at least feel pity for me, pity for a
lost soul. And if once a girl's heart is moved to /pity/, it's more dangerous than anything.
Crime And Punishment
"Weeping like a woman or a
lost soul," said the butler.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
'Well, I won't repeat my offer of a wife: it is as bad as offering Satan a
lost soul. Your bliss lies, like his, in inflicting misery.
Wuthering Heights
She is a
lost soul! - That is why I call Lord Illingworth a bad man.
Woman of No Importance
At the upper end we came out into a small chamber, the walls of which were plank except for a single window overlooking the slopes of Otz and the Valley of
Lost Souls beyond.
Warlord of Mars
Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with
lost souls from the outer world.
The Gods of Mars