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Pronunciation: [lˈapsɪŋ] (IPA)

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Usage examples for Lapsing

"No," replied Mrs. Chumley, lapsing into thoughtful mood.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
The garden pale her world shuts in, A simple world made sweet with thyme, Where life, soft lulled by droning bees, Flows to the mill-stream's lapsing rhyme.
"Songs Ysame"
Annie Fellows Johnston Albion Fellows Bacon
Marcia Lowe was lapsing into old-fashioned speech.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock

Famous quotes with Lapsing

  • Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
    Richard Hughes
  • Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
    Richard Hughes
  • People constantly make this rejoinder to me, and they employ: this method in order to reject my arguments without examination. But this is unjust. Not only do I not repudiate science, that is, the reasonable activity of humanity, and art - the expression of that reasonable activity - but it is just on behalf of that reasonable activity and its expression that I speak, only that It may be possible for mankind to escape from the savage state into which it is rapidly lapsing thanks to the false teaching of our time. It is only on that account that I speak as I do.
    Leo Tolstoy
  • Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
  • and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.
    Leigh Hunt

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