Lapses
[læpsiz]
Examples
- But at first their exclusiveness is merely to preserve soundness of doctrine and worship, warned by such lamentable lapses as those of King Solomon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And that thus the suit lapses and melts away? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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