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[ih-laps] / ɪˈlæps /


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Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by Morley, John

Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct100 The world at last to Freedom.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Though years Elapse and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others and conduct The world, at last, to freedom.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

Elapse, e-laps′, v.i. to slip or glide away: to pass silently, as time.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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