And each losel receives him with bark and with bite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

        Knowing yet right well Jove, what a losel is he.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

“A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Geierstein] Reference

Yet I am not a losel and idle, mither, nor a thief that steals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andromeda and Other Poems] Reference

Though descended from a family which suffered much injury from the losel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference

Sam was but a sad losel, and vexed him in other and more serious matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

Lord, what an ugly countenance had the losel when they came to wash the charcoal off him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference

The 'losel,' the moral outcast, keeps his own conceit of truth though through a maze of lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference

But oh, thou gull -- thou dunderpate -- thou losel knave, to lose one line moved by her sweet fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

But they were always brought from abroad, probably from that losel Yankee-land from which most of the woe of New York has proceeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Easy Chair — Volume 01] Reference

The young men, seeing and hearing all this, turned upon Arriguccio and gave him the soundest rating ever losel got; and ultimately they said to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Years ago there was a young Bilkins, one Pendexter Bilkins -- a sad losel, we fear -- who ran away to try his fortunes before the mast, and fell overboard in a gale off Hatteras.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rivermouth Romance] Reference

"Ay," answered Skallagrim, "and that losel Hall hath parted it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

  But one sad losel soils a name for aye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference

I care not to open my door to every losel that knocks, "cried he aloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Mere losel in body and soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference

To see a losel, marketable king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

With joy I'd hunt the losel fry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810] Reference

From losel of the coward's shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848] Reference

That ill-omened losel may depart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The losel swarm of crown and cowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Of losel snatches born of folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)] Reference

For if we shold hang any losel here.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Songs and Ballads] Reference

For if we shold hang any losel heere.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Old Ballads — Complete] Reference

But one sad losel soils a name for aye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

And, losel, thou art worthy to be hang'd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winter's Tale] Reference

Knowing yet right well Jove, what a losel is he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

For she had borne me to a losel vile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference

Dost thou not know thyself, losel that thou art?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

26 Ah, losel vile!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

A losel or a slave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

As some "losel," to possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crockford-House] Reference

Well and ye shift no better, ye losel, lyther, and lasye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gammer Gurton's Needle] Reference