Use lapsed in a sentence
Sentences ending with lapsed
- At length, when some half dozen of the wine was gone, and the big oak clock had struck two, the talk lapsed. [9]
More example sentences with the word lapsed in them
- She ain't the type," said Mr. Hopkins, slowly, not without a note of regret, and lapsed into silence. [9]
- He longed so to please her, to ingratiate himself with her, that he attempted to be light like her in his talk, but lapsed into abysmal absences and gloomy recesses of introspection. [8]
- In that seething time, the lighter literature took a sentimental tone, and either spread itself in manufactured fine writing, or lapsed into a reminiscent and melting mood. [4]
- Inform them that the daughter of Rameses has lapsed seriously from the law, and defiled herself, and direct that public--you hear me public--prayers shall be put up for her purification in every temple. [10]
- He began his story meaning to tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. [2]
- John Duff was plying him with questions in French, and presently the man became calmer and lapsed into broken English. [9]
- The beliefs of other days, when she had donned her best dress and gone to church on Sundays, had simply lapsed and left--habits. [9]
- As she had not shut her eyes the night before and, from dread of the ball, had slept very little during the preceding one, she soon, though the moon was shining in through the parted curtains, lapsed into a condition midway between sleep and waking. [10]
- The monarchy has lapsed, it no longer exists. [5]
- He, too, had lapsed into what I thought was an odd conservatism. [9]
- At intervals they lapsed into silences, leaving a sentence unfinished, seemingly either unaware of it or losing their way. [5]
- Now he lapsed into suffering again, as the dry argument was resumed. [5]
- Then he lapsed into silence, and at last, as the result of his meditations, told his mistress that there was something unusual about his insignificant self, because he earnestly desired to practise the virtues whose possession he claimed before the eyes of the people. [10]
- Shon lapsed suddenly into a moodiness. [11]
- This was pain indeed, and Ephraim's conduct gave him cause for fresh anxiety; since Kasana's appearance and interference in behalf of him and his companions in suffering, the youth had again lapsed into silence and gazed with wandering eyes at the army or into vacancy. [10]
- Sellers had returned home cheerful but empty-handed, and the mule business lapsed into other hands. [5]
- His benefactor pulled himself away, shocked and ashamed, as one is by such a chance, and got back to his wife, and the man lapsed back into the mystery of misery out of which he had emerged. [8]
- Finally everything around her had lapsed into silence and she only knew that never had she shed such bitter, burning tears as in this hour. [10]
- Finally he, too, had lapsed into the mood which threatened to lead the light-hearted Schorlin into a monastery. [10]
- Many nations, no doubt, have fallen away in civilisation, and some may have lapsed into utter barbarism, though on this latter head I have met with no evidence. [1]
- We had a chatty conversation with several gentlemen present; but there was one person, a middle aged man, with an absent look in his face, who simply glanced up, gave us good-day and lapsed again into the meditations which our coming had interrupted. [5]
- Her colour deepened as the sound of his voice brought back the lapsed memories of the old intimacy. [9]
- He lapsed into an awkwardness quite as bad as that of his friend. [9]
- After that she again lapsed into unconsciousness or a weakness which was its counterpart. [13]
- Then he spoke a little and asked some questions, but lapsed into a moody silence afterwards. [11]
- They lapsed into a humble silence, and learned to disappear when the ruthless 'cub'-engineer approached. [5]
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