But at first their exclusiveness is merely to preserve soundness of doctrine and worship, warned by such lamentable lapses as those of King Solomon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
And that thus the suit lapses and melts away? 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.