... But Sir Percy seemed, whenever his wife's name was mentioned, to lapse into irresistible somnolence...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... After a lapse of time; his mistress died...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
... The abolition of slavery in mynative State and throughout the country, and the lapse of time, renderthe caution hitherto observed no longer necessary...
Frederick Douglass 「Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass」
... The Code defines prescription thus: "The process of gaining and losing through the lapse of time...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...When theskuas returned, however, and without the lapse ofa few seconds, a penguin would be seen to detach itselffrom the knoll and run to guard the heap...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...Then she left, and only returnedto relieve the cock after the lapse of another fortnight,it being worth remarking that each wasabsent for the same length of time...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...Man, therefore, may be said to have been trying an experiment on a gigantic scale; and it is an experiment which nature during the long lapse of time has incessantly tried...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...Moekel had now to confess that she herself had instigated this lapse on Ilse's part...
Henny Kindermann Agnes Blake 「Lola」
...The eggs of the Sitares also arehatched after the same lapse of time...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Hemakes renunciation of all title to thename of a crack shot, too well knowingthat this is no brief lapse of skill,but the final, inevitable falling off of thequick eye and sure hand...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...I remember once having acollection of birds from India prepared in this way, which aftera lapse of years were successfully skinned and made up —"as well as could be expected...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...After the lapse of half an hour the noise in the woodfor a time increases audibly...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...Aside from an occasional lapse in diction, it is a careful study with 35illustrations and many documents such as copies of deeds, wills,family-bible and death records...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...The Japanese give the double impression of being industrious and diligent on the one hand, and, on the other, of being lazy and utterly indifferent to the lapse of time...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
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