"At a loss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... if not directly, then a long way about, from what we have been saying, that the real artist is never at a loss for a subject. His trouble is too many themes, not too few; and, having chosen among them, his error will be in an iron sequence rather than in a desultory progression. He is to arrive, if at all, laden with ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... tell you easily. Because I have a considerable gift for repartee. I discovered in my early youth that men propose not because they want to marry, but because on certain occasions they are entirely at a loss ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... electrolier, and, motioning Quin to a chair, sat down heavily. Now that he had achieved a guest, he seemed at a loss to know what ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... a good deal," he answered. "I hope, however, that no harm has come to Silas Keene; yet I am at a loss to understand why he ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... the darkness, I found myself at a loss to fathom the mentality of men like Jeeves's Uncle Cyril. What on earth he could see funny in a disaster which had apparently involved the complete extinction of a human creature—or, at any rate, of ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
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