The industry lapsed about the end of the 18th century, but has been revived in modern times.
As of old, in poignant moments, her father lapsed at last into a denunciation of the Isbels and what they had brought him to.
David had noticed nothing, but I was strangely uncomfortable, and, despite my efforts at talk, often lapsed into silence, to be roused from it by a feeling that Paterson was looking at me covertly.
They were "Tinned meats," and having uttered them she lapsed into gloomy silence.
He lapsedmore and more into acquiescence with his changed condition, and that bragging note of his was rarely sounded.
His wife, who at first had listened with mystification, and then dawning incredulity, changing into a look of relief that was almost triumph, lapsed again into severity.
It lapsed so entirely away from the subject just in hand, that Lapham was left with rather a good idea, as he thought it, to perish in his mind, for want of a chance to express it.
God's best," muttered Orn, and once more theylapsed into the companionable silence of good friends.
Then the girl lapsed into a sulky silence, and Frederick, too sick at heart, too indifferent to her likes and dislikes to care, did not encourage her to repeat what she had said.
Mebbe 'twon't be so cold tomorrow as it air today," cheered Andy and they lapsed into silence.
Then, for perhaps the space of three minutes, they lapsed into silence.
Discouraged by lack of appreciation, always abnormally high-strung and neurasthenic, he gradually lapsed into insanity, and died at the age of thirty-seven.
An ardent liberal in youth, he, more quickly than Wordsworth, lapsed into conservatism, whence resulted his appointment as Poet Laureate in 1813 and the unremitting hostility of Lord Byron.
For a moment he lapsed into dreams; then, reaching out, he picked up the second letter, postmarked over a year before, and examined it idly.
And with another spender gone the Hotel Bender lapsed into a sleepy quietude.
And then he lapsed back into silence, his head turned as before.
I guess you know how I feel, all right," returned Hardy, and then he lapsed into silence, while Swope picked his teeth and thought.
I am afraid that is impossible," said Sartoris, who had lapsed into his bland manner once more.
Craig lapsed into silence, stared moodily out of the window.
I hadn't thought of that," Gerald answered, and then suddenly lapsed into silence, while a queer and sly little smile stole over his face.
They lapsed into silence, and for two hours lay in the gutter listening to the noises which came from every side.
There was still the possibility of that "lapsed mythology," the dream of poets and the delight of artists, seeming positively the best form of expression for sentiments aroused by nature.
A day will come when men will lament more what is irrecoverable than ever a nation mourned for lapsed dominion.
I know not what made Silis so abruptly begin to sing, and with that wailing couplet only, or why she lapsed at once into silence again.
In 1854 the country finally lapsed to the British government, the chief having died without issue.
The peasantry and the inhabitants of the faubourgs, owing to their extreme poverty, itself a powerful factor in the production of degeneration, had lapsedinto a state closely akin to that of their savage ancestors.
His sister became abruptly still, and lapsed into a pondering silence.
To his surprise, she gave a faint cry, turned quickly towards him, and then shrank back and lapsed quite helpless against the tree.
Nana had gradually lapsed into a most mournful condition.
Then she once more lapsed into contemplation and neither moved nor spoke.
A mirror stopped her, and as of old shelapsed into obvious contemplation of her nakedness.
The house once more lapsed into heavy silence; the carriage had driven away, and she sat motionless, not knowing what to do next, her head swimming after all she had gone through.
Kitty went as usual to Mrs. Ellison's room after her walk, but she lapsed into a deep abstraction as she sat down beside the sofa.
He clasped her in his arms, and then they lapsed into silence that to him was even sweeter than the kiss she had given him.
An expression of vexation came over his good-tempered face as he took his seat at the lady's side, and he lapsed for a few minutes into a moody silence.
Strange herald voices filled the air: glad anthems swelled around: The wakened winds rose eager-voiced, and lapsedin dreamy sound.
Man in the state of lapsed nature differs from man in the state of pure nature, as Perrone says, only as nudatus from nudo, one denuded from one always nude.
Though man in innocency, needing no Redeemer, might live to God without faith in a Redeemer; yet lapsed man is not only unable to redeem himself, but also unable to live to God without the grace of the Redeemer.
He is too strong an enemy for lapsed sinful man to deal with of himself.
I remember scores of little things like that, things done and things said with an incorruptible sweetness and affection, but things accentuated with lapsed aitches and with gestures that only Jimmy was unaware of.
Even so our acquaintance might have lapsed but for the thing that happened when the waiter came up with the bill.
They listened, and their hearts lapsed back from the hallucinated unity of enthusiasm each to its own identity, an identity isolated, intensified, tortured exquisitely by the expression of dim yearnings.
