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Sentences starting with lapse

Lapse of time cannot make it commonplace or cheap. [5]

Sentences ending with lapse

Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse. [5]

More example sentences with the word lapse in them

The imperial crown would lapse to his brother; Ferdinand's son, Maximilian, now Charles's son-in-law, was destined to succeed his father, while the Infant Philip must in future be content with the sovereignty of Spain, the Netherlands, Charles's Italian possessions, and the New World. [10]
Whatever mistake he was thought to have committed was condoned by amicable treatment, neutralized by the virtual indorsement of the government in the instructions of the 25th of September, and obsolete as a ground of quarrel by lapse of time. [6]
I think there was music; but it is all dim now and blurred by the lapse of time, and this may be only a senile fancy. [5]
It was not until to-day, after the lapse of nearly a month, that I happened upon my Encephalic chapter again. [5]
Its parodies of Tudor speech lapse sometimes into a callow satisfaction in that idiom--Mark hugely enjoys his nathlesses and beshrews and marrys. [5]
Has he striven through long weeping years to find excuses for the lapse of an only brother; and through daily contact with a poor lost profligate, been compelled into a certain familiarity with the vices that his soul abhors? [14]
Whenever I perceive this sign on this man's dial, I comprehend it, and lapse into silence, and give him opportunity to unload his heart. [5]
Under this title the Marchioness repaired, in tears, to the school of his selection, from which, as she soon distanced all competitors, she was removed before the lapse of many quarters to one of a higher grade. [12]
Even now, after the lapse of a year, the delirium of those days in Bombay has not left me, and I hope never will. [5]
Yet, now that she remembered, she had sweetly challenged one of a royal house for the like lapse into the vulgar tongue. [11]
I offered to ring, but she said, "No, don't do that; it would only distress her to be confronted with her lapse, and would be a rebuke; she doesn't deserve that--she is not to blame for the tricks her memory serves her. [5]
And I am repeatedly startled by the vividness with which they recur to me after the lapse of years and their utter uselessness in being remembered at all. [5]
So then we remembered our glorious forefathers and ancestors, and we recollected that a man lives in our midst who knew many things which we others have lost sight of in the lapse of years. [10]
We are also quite ignorant at how rapid a rate organisms, whether high or low in the scale, may be modified under favourable circumstances; we know, however, that some have retained the same form during an enormous lapse of time. [1]
Their horse-shaped heads poured water into a vast basin, which, in the lapse of centuries, had grown full of a green and filmy vegetation. [10]
If that primitive physician, Chiron, M. D., appears as a Centaur, as we look at him through the lapse of thirty centuries, the modern country-doctor, if he could be seen about thirty miles off, could not be distinguished from a wheel-animalcule. [6]
There was a parting, a lapse of years, and then the meeting on the 'Fulvia': with it, partial restoration of Mrs. Falchion's influence, then its decline, and then a complete change of position. [11]
But the principle of reversion, by which a long-lost structure is called back into existence, might serve as the guide for its full development, even after the lapse of an enormous interval of time. [1]
Two thousand miles of ceaseless rush and rattle and clatter, by night and by day, and never a weary moment, never a lapse of interest! [5]
But the suffering of a person whom we have once loved possesses a reconciling power, and he who usually forgot no insult, even after the lapse of years, was again disposed to forgive her, and reverted to the wish to continue to enjoy her singing. [10]
Then, neither hunger, nor thirst, nor fatigue, nor deferred hope, nor monotonous disappointment, nor leaden-footed lapse of time can conquer the hunter's patience or weaken the joy of his quest or cool the splendid rage of his desire. [5]
A dull preacher might be conceived, therefore, to lapse into a state of quasi heathenism, simply for want of religious instruction. [6]
I do not mean to say that the scenes of the Revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten, but that, like everything else, they must fade upon the memory of the world, and grow more and more dim by the lapse of time. [7]
What change the lapse of years may work I do not know; but it seems to me that bitter sorrow, while recent, does not flow out in verse. [14]
In the slow lapse of the ages the steadily accumulating power of our gods has at last become prodigious. [5]
The father of Jethro Bass, Nathan the currier, had once, in a youthful lapse, permitted a Baptist preacher to immerse him in Coniston Water. [9]
One could detect in the lapse of the waves along the shore the note of weariness preceding the change into the fretfulness and the tumult of tempests. [4]
Harris said that his sort of lapse is to be found in every copy of every newspaper that has ever been printed in English, and in almost all of our books. [5]
By slow degrees he resumed his sitting posture after that lapse of time, and inquired: 'And where do you live, Marchioness? [12]
The unwholesome three had shared his moral lapse with wide-open eyes, and were in no sense victims of his; but, disregarding their responsibility, they had, from sheer jealousy, wrecked his past, and, to their own surprise, had wrecked themselves as well. [11]
He could never forget the bride of his youth, whose image, growing phantomlike with the lapse of years, hovered over him like a dream while waking and like a reality in dreams. [6]
Her lapse would condemn her to the stake, and the stake would be ready. [5]
An English friend called my attention to this lapse, and cut out the reprehensible paragraph for me. [5]
Love and moonlight, and the soft lapse of the waves and singing? [4]
The same qualities and the same style will be found, unchanged, unbettered, in these following paragraphs--after a lapse of more than fifty years, and after--as aforesaid--long literary training. [5]
The ageing men and the ageing scenery together convey a profound illusion of that long lapse of time: they make you live it yourself! [5]

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