All 4 Uses
elapse
in
Ligeia
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- Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering.†
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- Yet but a brief period elapsed, ere a second more violent disorder again threw her upon a bed of suffering; and from this attack her frame, at all times feeble, never altogether recovered.†
- Many minutes elapsed before any circumstance occurred tending to throw light upon the mystery.†
- An hour thus elapsed when (could it be possible?)†
Definitions:
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(1)
(elapse) of time: to pass by
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)