Sentence examples for lost survive from inspiring English sources

1963 Two Lost Survive With Bible WHITEHORSE, Yukon — An adventuresome girl from Brooklyn and a husky California mechanic related from their hospital beds today [March 26] the story of their 48 days on a frozen Yukon mountainside with only the Bible and a poetry book for inspiration and melted snow for subsistence.

If one wins (dies), the win is paid out to one's relatives, and if one loses (survives the specified time), the wager (premium) is kept by the insurance company, which acts as a bookmaker and sets the odds (payout ratios) according to actuarial data.

His music survived in handwritten copies prepared by himself and his pupils, and as a result many works were lost, or survive incomplete.

There are some sixty works attributed to him, but most of them are now lost or survive in mere fragments.

Most of the literary sources from before the Hellenistic age (323 30 BC) that even referred to the character are lost or survive only in fragments or summary.

Gertie is the best preserved of McCay's films—some of which have been lost or survive only in fragments and has been preserved in the US National Film Registry.

Apollodorus of Artemita and Arrian wrote histories focusing on Parthia, which are now lost and survive only as quoted extracts in other histories.

I held up my printout of Cole's scene, comparing the lost and surviving past to the evolving present.

Many of the archaic myths were lost; others survived only as fragments, and, in effect, an entirely new mythological world was created.

The start of Book I is lost; its surviving section begins with a panegyric of Rome and continues for 644 lines.

This film is also considered lost, although surviving stills show the castle interiors, which the current owner, a shipping magnate, had filled with pricey antiques in high Spanish Gothic style, and exterior walls and balconies romantically overgrown with ivy.