Which preposition to use with lapsing

of Occurrences 607%

Thus it requires no extraordinary acuteness of observation, no strained hypothesis, to perceive a close resemblance between the Germans or the Britons of antiquity and their modern descendants, after the lapse of eighteen centuries, and an entire revolution in government, religion, language, and laws.

into Occurrences 231%

And lapsing into Ingalik, he endorsed this credential not to be denied.

from Occurrences 46%

Nearly all of his music is sweet and tender, lapsing from his round breast like water over the smooth lip of a pool, then breaking farther on into a sparkling foam of melodious notes, which, glow with subdued enthusiasm, yet without expressing much of the strong, gushing ecstasy of the bobolink or skylark.

in Occurrences 22%

This located the sick chamber, and unconsciously he hushed his step and moved with the greatest caution, though he knew that this sickness was not one of the nerves, and that the loudest sound would fail to reach ears lapsed in a blessed, if alarming, unconsciousness.

to Occurrences 15%

I believe this was his own view of the matter; for when he admitted to me one morning that he had "took cold in the chest," his manner was one of deprecating confusion, and he swore me against betrayal of his lapse to Miss Caroline.

through Occurrences 4%

They claimed that the Government was taking away their rights, which may be correct in essence but hardly just in form; they had lost their rights, primarily, not through usurpation but through abrogation; the Government had acted because of the default of the States, it had practically been forced to exercise powers limited to the States because the States lapsed through neglect and inaction.

for Occurrences 3%

He had the courage of his convictions, and did not allow his work in this direction to lapse for lack of effort on his part to secure its introduction into the practice of the day.

at Occurrences 3%

But the radiant look passed swiftly with the remembrance of the pain that would come to the child on waking, and she kissed the tiny fingers that lay over the edge of her mantle with a movement of irrepressible tenderness, lapsing at once into reverie; while the artist, full of the enthusiasm of creation, stood dreaming of his picture.

on Occurrences 2%

Why the sudden lapse on the part of this extraordinary and self-confident young person into the terminology of the servant class? "Yes, I am," she admitted.

between Occurrences 2%

" Talk lapsed between the two and each went on cleaning up her side of the tent.

out Occurrences 2%

Not exactly seeing his way to the end of these demonstrations, Mr. Toot with chuckles, lapsed out of the door, and got away.

of Occurrences 1%

White sails show aloft; a line of dissolving horizon; a fragment of overhanging cliff wild with coarse grass and bright with poppies, and musical with the lapsing of the summer waves.

among Occurrences 1%

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

as Occurrences 1%

It was evidently such lapses as these that had given rise to the accusation.

towards Occurrences 1%

In other directions sociological work is apt to lose its general reference altogether, to lapse towards some department of activity not primarily sociological at all.

without Occurrences 1%

The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will lapse without the possibility of carrying out the provisions of the convention in this respect.

as Occurrences 1%

and him only by me to make me not a stranger there, with talk of absent friends and old times, though scarce the long age of a college course had gone by,talk lapsing as of old on such rides into serious strains, problems such as the young talk of together and keep their secret, learning life,the troubles of the heart of youth.

into Occurrences 1%

For I was fast lapsing into one of the moods which my little mother used to call my "morbid streaks" and which she had vainly tried to cure ever since I was a tiny girl.

against Occurrences 1%

He laughed a weak, foolish laugh, and turning pale, suddenly lapsed against a tree.

Which preposition to use with  lapsing