Lydgate was aware that his concessions to Rosamond were often little more than the lapse of slackening resolution, the creeping paralysis apt to seize an enthusiasm which is out of adjustment to a constant portion of our lives.
He knew some anecdotes about the heroes of the turf, and various clever tricks of Marquesses and Viscounts which seemed to prove that blood asserted its pre-eminence even among black-legs; but the minute retentiveness of his memory was chiefly shown about the horses he had himself bought and sold; the number of miles they would trot you in no time without turning a hair being, after the lapse of years, still a subject of passionate asseveration, in which he would assist the imagination of his he
Among our valued friends is there not some one or other who is a little too self-confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
" said Mary, with an unmistakable lapse into indifference.
I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
She would lapse back to Doss Stirling again and for her few remaining days or weeks be the cowed, futile creature she had always been.
Sudden changes in career or job opportunities are to be expected with a short lapse of dipping into savings.
The most recent research, presented at last week's American Heart Association meeting, found that the chance of a "diet lapse" was 60% when eating with others.
Even a half-second response delay suggests a lapse into sleepiness, known as a microsleep.
Before our eyes, the child became a man in a movie time lapse.
If You Can't Get a Job Right Away, Don't Despair , If you start thinking of yourself as a victim or allow yourself to lapse into prolonged negativity, you won't be hurting anyone except yourself.
But as for me, I had gone quite beyond all lapse of time, and had become a cipher and a nothing.
