Sentence examples for manuscripts were lost from inspiring English sources

Manuscripts were lost, mistakes constantly made.

According to Drissa Traoré, head of documentation at the institute, thousands of valuable manuscripts were lost, some destroyed, others stolen.

That heritage was long overlooked; key books and manuscripts were lost during centuries of occupation and destruction.

With one exception, microfilm copies of the original manuscript returns have been preserved for all censuses since 1850 (the 1890 Census manuscripts were lost in a fire).

In 2014, the apartment Alomar kept in Damascus because he had planned "to go back and forth between here and Syria" was destroyed, and all his possessions and manuscripts were lost in the rubble.

After Bizet's death many of his manuscripts were lost; works were revised by other hands, and published in these unauthorised versions so that it is often difficult to establish what is authentic Bizet.

He was intrigued to hear that Bach's manuscripts are lost.

Posterity lifted the author of Moby-Dick to the ranks of America's greatest writers, but he was overlooked in his own time, many of his letters and manuscripts are lost and there is much that remains open to conjecture.

In Ashbery's brief piece, here republished as a preface, he notes that, sometime in the nineteen-sixties, a box containing Murray's manuscripts was lost by the men moving the poet's and her mother's papers to the Smith College archives, a nearly slapstick extension of whatever curse doomed Murray from the start.

By the 16th century, parts of the manuscript were lost; eighteen pages were inserted containing substitute entries from other sources, including [A], [B], [C], and [E].

About a third of the manuscript is lost.