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			light up light with lighten lighten load lighten up lightly lightning Lightning does not strike twice Lightning never strikes twice lights like like a bat out of hell like a blind dog in a meat market like a bolt from the blue like a bolt out of the blue like a bull at a gate like a bump on a log like a can of corn like a dream like a fish out of water like a headless chicken like a house on fire like a kid with a new toy like a lamb like a lamb to the slaughter like a lost soul like a man possessed like a million like a million dollars like a shag on a rock like a shot like a three-ring circus like a ton of bricks like blue blazes Like breeds like like clockwork like crazy like death like death warmed over like father, like son like fighting snakes like flies to manure like gangbusters like gold dust like greased lightning like hell like hell and high lightning like herding frogs like I said like it or lump it Like it or lump it!			like a cat on a hot tin roof like a cat on hot bricks like a cat on hot bricks like a cat on hot bricks like a chicken with its head cut off Like a Dream like a fish out of water like a fish out of water like a fish out of water like a fish out of water like a flash like a flash like a flash like a flash like a flash Like A Fox like a headless chicken like a hot knife through butter like a hot knife through butter like a hot knife through butter like a hot knife through butter like a house afire like a house on fire like a kid with a new toy like a knife through butter like a knife through butter like a knife through butter like a knife through butter like a lamb like a lamb to the slaughter like a lost soul like a man possessed like a million like a million dollars Like A Mother Figure like a ripe plum like a ripe plum like a ripe plum like a ripe plum like a ripe plum like a shag on a rock like a shot like a shot like a shot like a shot like a sitting duck like a three-ring circus like a ton of bricks like a trooper Like a Virgin like a woman possessed like an expert like anything Like Apoptotic Protease 6 like as not like as not like better Like blazes like blue blazes like blue murder Like breeds like

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