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She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face."By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."
leigh hunt— The Glove and the Lions
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
livy— Book XXIV, sec. 21
A lot of my stories end with "And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me."
james nicoll— Usenet article <846uk2$kk$1@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> (1999)
The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.
smith, leighton w., jr.— Background
Innocence once lost cannot be regained.
— Lucifer in The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
God created man for fellowship… The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.
paul enns— p. 88 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.
donald norman— Ch. 6, p. 157
Krishna, my delusion is destroyed, And by your grace I have regained memory; I stand here, my doubt dispelled, ready to act on your words.
— Arjuna; Chapter 18, verse 73; Barbara Stoler Miller translation
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
— Book XVIII, sec. 44. (Naturalis Historia)
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
— Book XXIV, sec. 21 (History of Rome)
