They're all mind," Medora went on, with no lapseof momentum.
But he was relying still more on a sudden defection or lapse which had left the dramatic club without a necessary actor at a critical time.
Amy Leffingwell tempered her look of general commiseration with a slight lapse into relief.
Suddenly she was struck with the notion that possibly his first lapse had not left him in condition to stand this second one.
Thank you so much," she said, with a smile that reinstated Cope after a threatened lapse from favor.
After the lapse of a few months spent in this sweet rural retreat, George Eliot again writes to Mrs. Gilchrist: "I did not imagine that I should ever be so fond of the place as I am now.
He at first finds, after a lapse of about a year and a half, or somewhat less, that he cannot recollect what his motives were to certain actions which upon the very face of them appeared fraudulent.
In the lapse of time historical research, while removing the sacred halo of Washington, has revealed beneath it a stronger brain than was then known to any one.
To give, therefore, intelligible meaning to the expression, we must suppose a lapse of some generations at least, for this manner of speaking carries the mind back to ancient time.
He was therefore liberated; and reaching London with two gold mohurs in his pocket, was immediately subjected to the scrutiny of the Audit Board--a scrutiny which did not terminate until after the lapse of nearly five years.
After the lapse of so many years, where could they seek for their friends?
With his death the Persian empire became extinct, after a lapse of 228 years from its establishment by Cyrus.
Their lasting color phenomena, due to the employment of lampblack and kindred substances even after a lapse of so many ages, is at this late day of no particular moment as they but prove the virtues of the different types of "Indian" inks.
To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than beggars.
Nullum tempus occurrit regi=--No lapse of time bars the rights of the crown.
Either of these would be a prey to the longlapse of time.
In the lapse of years one is apt to forget the springs from which the wells of human action are fed; it is commonly the lot of man to sink into a state of mind that is at once unreceptive and unretentive.
If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.
Be not deceived that the story of thy lapse would be kept under thy father's roof.
The slave who conducted the visitor to the master's presence was suspicious, but he did not lapse from courtesy.
But she put off the encroaching lapseinto retrospection.
Wherefore it is needful that we watch that no further lapse is made, which will carry us into lawlessness.
Antonia studied the face of the old man; it was significant, when, after his lapse into the softened mood of retrospection, he should return to his old manner.
If thy lapse into evil hath let thee forget it, I care enough for thy manner to recall it to thee.
So apparent the alabarch's sincerity, that after due lapse of time in which the proconsul plucked up courage and front, Flaccus resumed his visits to the alabarch's house.
A second lapse from the state of grace entailed perpetual exclusion from the sacraments, the means of salvation.
It has been said that except for one lapse his life had been austere, but this is not to assert that he had no capacity for passion.
When a roof required thatching it was thatched; when a man became too old to work, he was not suffered to lapse into the Workhouse.
The lapse of time has seconded the sacerdotal arts; and in the East, as well as in the West, the Deity is addressed in an obsolete tongue, unknown to the majority of the congregation.
For thislapse of duty to her church and to herself, however, she atoned at once by a sudden frigidity.
After the lapse of a few days, when I was in the street, I perceived a young girl who, as to her face and her raiment, was the exact image of her whom I had beheld in my dream.
The only manifestation of adverse fortune left to trouble me was the conspiracy of the doctors against me, but there were already signs that this would disappear before long, and in sooth it came to an end after the lapse of another year.
Ceases legally and constitutionally on lapse of rebel States, VIII.
Add now the lawless occupation of the Bay of Samana for many months after the lapse of the treaty, keeping the national flag flying there, and assuming a territorial sovereignty which did not exist.
You must never lapse into those casual acquaintances of the 'lounge' or the smoking-room.
Immediately, I was ashamed of mylapse into anthropomorphism.
It was a reported lapse in some other portion of Ike's anatomy that had led me to scramble along the landwash to the cottage.
In the lapse of time the old man had taken his last voyage, and Ike had come into full possession of the estate, living almost like Robinson Crusoe, cut off from his fellows by to him impassable barriers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lapse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
