The mother had placed her daughter's head in her lap, and was crying and wailing so that the entire palace heard her, and her face and clothing were bathed in tears.
She took Tirant's body, placed it in her lap, and lay his head on her breasts.
Risler had entered the room, and was walking toward them, distributing hand-shakes all along the benches.
Sidonie is standing at the window on the left, Risler at the one on the right.
He was so far troublesome that he was not at all wanted there, but she laid her work in her lap for a moment, and held out her left hand with her thimble on it.
She took her hands from the desk; folded them in her lap; and sat looking towards the fire, with the impenetrability of an old Egyptian sculpture.
Dora and I were sitting on the sofa by and by, quiet enough, and Jip was lying in her lap, winking peacefully at me.
I fancied, from the disposition of her figure, that Em'ly had but newly risen from the chair, and that the forlorn head might perhaps have been lying on her lap.
Gently she stroked the beautiful head that lay so meekly on her lap; and as the girl sobbed with but little appearance of abatement, she said to her softly: 'Tell me, dear child.
She made no effort to restrain her; but sinking back into her own seat laid the girl's head in her lap, and held her hands close against her breast.
He paused, and watched her for a little time as she sat upright, with her hands folded on her lap.
To avoid doing this Miss Morris asked Carlton for a pencil, and scribbled with it in the novel she held on her lap.
Carlton looked eagerly in the direction Miss Morris had signified, and saw the Princess Aline sitting at some distance from them, with a book on her lap.
Nancy, with quivering lips, clasping her hands together tightly on her lap.
She was pale and quiet as a meditative statue, clasping her hands on her lap.
When even their stores of gossip were exhausted, she let the newspaper drop on her lap, and sat in vacant idleness smiling at nothing.
Mr. John Zant looked at his sister-in-law, sitting silent in a corner with Lucy on her lap.
In a few minutes, she indignantly dropped the newspaper in her lap.
She did not appear to be frightened, or ashamed of her outbreak of rage--she sat vacant and speechless, with her eyes on the General and her hands crossed on her lap.
One of her leather gloves, which she had taken off to eat her skimmer-cake, lay in her lap, and without the slightest warning she passionately swung the glove by the gauntlet directly in his face.
She laughed, wiping away at the same time the tears which were in her kind eyes; he flung himself down on his knees, and buried his head in her lap.
Miss Baker had turned back the overskirt of her dress; a plate of cake was in her lap; from time to time she sipped her wine with the delicacy of a white cat.
Then a discussion was opened on the subject, Trina sitting up in the chair, holding her hat in her lap; McTeague leaning against the window frame his hands in his pockets, his eyes wandering about on the floor.
The little old lady was sitting close to the wall in her rocking-chair; her hands resting idly in her lap.
She generally sat on the ground opposite to her husband, with her little boy leaning on her lap, and her coal black hair spreading in long neglected tresses on her neck and bosom.
I think so, too," said her ladyship, crossing her handsome old hands resolutely on her lap.
Lady Janet's many-ringed fingers, mechanically stroking the cat in her lap, began to stroke him the wrong way.
She sank into the chair from which she had risen; her hands fell in hopeless despair on her lap.
Her hands dropped on her lap; her head sank back wearily on the cushions at the head of the sofa.
He was sitting on the ground at her feet, his head pillowed in her lap, lazily dreaming whilst at his feet the river wound its graceful curves beneath overhanging willows and tall stately elms.
One hand lay in her lap fingering a diminutive bit of cambric, which from time to time she pressed to her eyes.
The setting sun was throwing a halo of gold all round her hair, her white hands were clasped idly on her lap.
Then pray why does Mistress Rose save a whole pigeon out of the pie, hide it in her lap, and steal out of the house with it at midnight?
Lucy screamed aloud; Eleanor ran to her mother, and hid her face in her lap; Charles sat staring, with great round frightened eyes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her lap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
