Death of Berengar, upon which the imperial title lapses.

she told them triumphantly, not unconscious of the depressing result of her disclosures upon a couple of boys of the college age who adored openly and with frequent lapses from glorious hope to bleak despair.

They could not forget that in spite of his numerous lapses from respectability he was still a Mershone.

Mary Lamb, with occasional lapses into sound health, survived him until May 20, 1847.

Very often his phrase is applicable for the moment and for the situation in view of which he coined it, but his coin has only a temporary validity: it is good for a month or for a year, or for whatever period during which the crisis lasts, and after that it lapses again into a mere token, a thing without value and without meaning.

Then recollecting her true situation, she lapses into real woe and bitterness of heart.

I must also observe with Longinus, that the Productions of a great Genius, with many Lapses and Inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to the Works of an inferior kind of Author, which are scrupulously exact and conformable to all the Rules of correct Writing.

The sins of their fathers are not visited upon the children, in that regard at least; and their mothers' lapses from virtue are regarded either as misfortunes or as faults excusable under the circumstances.

Finally, when the growth of population has made land so dear that common laborers in freedom cannot save enough to buy farms, the occasion for slavery and serfdom lapses.

And he had one yet finer quality which redeems a hundred lapses of anarchic cynicism.

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

Her flights are few; so are her lapses.

It brought about one of those ghastly lapses in which two people who are in love pull up sharp, look at each other coolly and think it's all been a mistake.

She may reclaim the young, administer reproof to slight lapses, maintain a high standard of virtue, soften manners, diffuse enlightenment.

This is the debt that society pays for its occasional lapses in finance, just as its lapses in matters of taste are paid for by the enriching of those who provide it with rubbishy stuff to read, or rubbishy shows in picture palaces.

This is the debt that society pays for its occasional lapses in finance, just as its lapses in matters of taste are paid for by the enriching of those who provide it with rubbishy stuff to read, or rubbishy shows in picture palaces.

This state of affairs goes far toward explaining moral lapses among the negroes of to-day.

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

It was evidently written after the event, and there are some lapses.

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.

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

These lapses, however, are, fortunately, rare.

It would require saints, not men, to deal without occasional lapses from strict equity with such infuriating folk.

As I watched I remember that I forgot the bad acting (the hero was quite atrocious), forgot the lapses of taste in the colour and arrangement of the play, forgot the artifices and elaborate originalities and false sincerities; there were, I have no doubt, many things in it all that were bad and meretriciousI was dreaming.

He said once in a sermonand it gave offense to more than one of his deacons, for they scented in it Germanism,"The love of the past, the desire of the future, and the enjoyment of the present, make an eternity, in which time is absorbed, its lapse lapses, and man partakes of the immortality of his Maker.