The Kalevide was tired with his journey, and found a level place some little distance from the shore, so he brought a lapful of shingle from the beach and a quantity of sand, and made himself a comfortable bed in a dry spot.
Before daybreak the stupid demon brought a lapful of roubles,[54] which he poured into the hat.
Blanche sprang forward, dropping, as she went, her lapful of gatherings.
She was now wandering about in all directions, adding to her lapful of gatherings, and talking pleasant nonsense, while Morag's rare laugh was sometimes heard joining in her merriment.
They dared not ask Mira again about their lost friends; and even the lapful of kittens palled at last on Dot.
And Dot, in spite of a lapful of kittens, began to ask her sister: "Tess, when are we going to find Ruth and Aggie?
The loveliest girl in all the Californias has said, 'I will wed no man who does not bring me a lapful of pearls,' and no one has filled the front of that pretty flowered gown.
You remember the legend that tells how Elizabeth of Hungary, having been forbidden by her lord to carry food to the poor, was met one day by him outside the castle walls, as she was bearing a lapful of meat and bread to her pensioners.
Your confidence does but little honor to your judgment, Madame," said the injured one, "and what I have lost is of far more consequence than a lapful of gold.
Without counting it, I should not be afraid to leave a lapful of gold in her care.
Illustration: A Lapful of Warmth] But there was at least one snug chamber in Versailles, and that was the room of the Red-Cross prisoners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lapful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
