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Lapful

noun

(pl. lapfuls)

The quantity that can be held in the lap.

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"Lapful" Quotes from Famous Books

... room Mammy Riah was rocking back and forth upon the hearth, crooning to herself while she carded a lapful of wool. Her cracked old voice, still with its plaintive sweetness, came faintly to the girl who leaned her cheek upon the sky-blue sash and listened, half ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

... and rest, and make a wreath of these pretty wild roses for baby: it's her birthday, and it will please mamma," said Polly, sitting down on a mound of moss, with a lapful of flowers. ...

— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott

... provided for his family, you may be sure that Vance was not a great while in providing for himself; and having shelled a fine lapful of bonbons, he sat down to enjoy himself in peace, when to his vexation he heard at his side the ...

— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam

... am none of your ninnies; The next time I come from afar, I'll give you a lapful of guineas, With the kind honest heart ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various

... She threw her lapful of flowers away from her on the table at which she was sitting. She became perfectly furious with him for taking my side. I permitted myself (the poor child could not see it, remember), the harmless ...

— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins

... he strode away, leaving me in a perfect turmoil of angry feelings. I jumped up, scattering my lapful of violets, and started to walk in the opposite direction. At lunch we met, he ignored me completely, but I did not care, I felt ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

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