"Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap."
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"Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love."
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"Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord."
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"Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!"
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"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap"
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"Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location."
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"What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in."
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"There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy."
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"Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool."
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