They were hopeful but not hilarious there had been disappointments, desertions, lapses!

Sometimes he spoke in German with lapses into Yiddish, and any one would then have said that he was Samuel Brohl, a notorious Jewish adventurer.

In reading, one frequent cause for lapses of attention and for the intrusion of unwelcome ideas is obscurity in the material being read.

If you trace back your lapses of attention, you will often find that they first occur when the thought becomes difficult to follow, the sentence ambiguous, or a single word unusual.

If you introspect carefully, you will undoubtedly discover that many of your annoying lapses of attention can be traced to such conditions.

If deficiency of knowledge is the cause of your lapses of attention, the obvious remedy is to turn back and study the fundamental facts; to lay a firm foundation in your subjects of study.

Charles II said to those who had gathered about his deathbed: "You'll pardon any little lapses, gentlemen.

It is an ungracious task for a son to call attention to anything but the virtues of his father, especially when any lapses were the result of great provocation, and were made under the firm conviction that he was in the right.

Lapses into dialect will be noticed.

The watch, pure and simple, will not come; but some hybrid structure appearssomething round, perhapsbut it lapses into a warming-pan or other unexpected object.

Mauda love novel in versepublished in 1855, and considerably enlarged in 1856, had great sweetness and beauty, particularly in its lyrical portions, but it was uneven in execution, imperfect in design, and marred by lapses into mawkishness and excess in language.

It was one of those lapses, quas incuria fudit, which great writers as well as small are subject to.

Shut up in their retreat, the women waited for the morning with sleepless eyes, or with only transient lapses of consciousness.

But there are terrible lapses.

The illusion of reality is so strong that it covers its own lapses.

" The scene as it stands is far from perfect; but only Charlotte Brontë could sustain so strong an illusion of passion through so many lapses.

Her flights are few; so are her lapses.

"] The performances generally began at 5 o'clock, but that there were occasional lapses into unpunctuality, may be inferred from the following advertisement in the Daily Courant of October 5, 1703: "Her Majesty's Servants of the Theatre Royal being return'd from the Bath, do intend, to-morrow, being Wednesday, the sixth of this instant October to act a Comedy call'd 'Love Makes a Man, or the Fop's Fortune.'[A]

He thus acquires an extraordinary influence which he consolidates amongst outsiders by occasional lapses into a fury of critical honesty and abuse.

she wept over her lapses when sober, and made fair promises for the future, but I did not dare to trust her, so we parted.

The meager personal balance-sheets show four lapses from discipline,lapses that she even now regards as ruthless extravagance,viz.:

The meager personal balance-sheets show four lapses from discipline,lapses that she even now regards as ruthless extravagance,viz.:

A high standard of intelligence is required, and lapses are not overlooked.

After the first triumph in which she could address Lanfear by his name, and could greet her father as her father, there were lapses in which she knew them as before, without naming them.

I would reprimand your lapses, Seeing how ungratefully You, my son, towards me have acted.