like a lost soul

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like a lost soul

if someone is walking around a place like a lost soul, they are walking slowly without direction or purpose in a way that makes them look sad and lost I found him wandering aimlessly around the hall like a lost soul.

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Rogojin asked his question like a lost soul appealing to some divinity, with the reckless daring of one appointed to die, who has nothing to lose. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context He said `I won't have a child dressed in black wanderin' about like a lost soul,' he said. The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context And there, in the middle of it, was the man himself--his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upward in his agony. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Rogojin asked his question like a lost soul appealing to some divinity, with the reckless daring of one appointed to die, who has nothing to lose.

The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

He said `I won't have a child dressed in black wanderin' about like a lost soul,' he said.

The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context

And there, in the middle of it, was the man himself--his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upward in his agony.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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