Meanings of lose to posterity in inglês

David answered promptly, but inarticulately; so his reply is lost to posterity.

I am determined, however, that my theses shall not be lost to posterity.

I hope that you appreciate this profound saying; it ought not to be lost to posterity.

When he had finished the king exclaimed: So remarkable a story must not be lost to posterity.

That this great character might not be lost to posterity, we furnish our readers with the portrait of

At this point Du Clercq's manuscript is broken off abruptly and the remainder of his conjectures are lost to posterity.

From this habit I have been enabled to give the world so many anecdotes, which would otherwise have been lost to posterity.

If Sir Norman made any reply, it was drowned in the rattle and clank of the massive bars, and is hopelessly lost to posterity.

But they weren't the only turkey tamers: Indigenous inhabitants of what became the southwestern United States had their own prize breeds, now lost to posterity.

The name of his boarding-house keeper is lost to posterity, but the poet wrote of her food: I wish Kate our cat could see it.

I for many years solicited Johnson to favour me with a copy of it, that so excellent a composition might not be lost to posterity.

So the old gentleman gets no further, and what the schoolmaster's niece said afterwards (which he is always going to tell) is lost to posterity.