Meditation upon an utterly vague subject, whether of apprehension or of hope, speedily lapses into reverie.

And after chatting about Du Paty and Esterhazy we gradually lapsed into silence.

However, Mr. Huxley really finds it safer to suppose that references to ancestor-worship in the Bible were obliterated by late monotheistic editors, who, none the less, are so full and minute in their descriptions of the various heresies into which Israel was eternally lapsing, and must not be allowed to lapse again.

As imperceptibly as grief The summer lapsed away, Too imperceptible, at last, To seem like perfidy.

When she lapsed listlessly into the slough of silence and despond, he went on precisely as though unconscious of a change.

Beside me, too, clear waters coursed Which willow branches, lapsing low, Breaking their crystal gliding forced To sing as they did flow.

From the unusual confidence of a bit ago he merely lapsed into the normal, his own repressed, impassive self.

I do not think so, for a stream of gentle emotion, which I know was sweet and which I think was pure, lapsed softly through my mind all day.

She lapsed abruptly into the prosaic.

So it stands, you perceive; the labial muscles, that swelled with Vehement evolution of yesterday Marseillaises, Articulations sublime of defiance and scorning, to-day col- Lapse and languidly mumble, while men and women and papers Scream and re-scream to each other the chorus of Victory.

She stood out from the shadow of the stone column, dead to all appearances, yet animate, and trying to hold up Angèle whose whole body lapsed downward in half unconsciousness.