Impatient and weary as the occupation often made her, she yet depended upon the morning waves of adulation that lapped in upon her from every quarter of the earth.
Water overlay lawns and paths, so the house stood in a wide, shallow lake whose ripples lapped around the white cement steps and the pillars of the porte-cochère.
I did place it there, and lay lappedin its sweet odor while the moments dragged past; heavy, slow-footed moments of strain and dreadful expectation scarcely relieved by a hope uneasy as fear.
But scarcely had he lapped a drop of milk when he left the saucer, came up to me with loud purring, and caressed me, as if to express his thanks.
With their fore-paws on the table, theylapped the milk with becoming propriety.
But the wind helped; one or two heavy waves lapped conveniently against the sodden bark, and I succeeded in seizing the stub.
She caressed its face with her nose, and lapped it with her long, soft red tongue.
To their surprise, he not only lapped up the berries with keen satisfaction, but asked in plain bear language for more.
For one exquisite quarter of an hour we were softly lapped across in the sun, and for all that beauty we were only asked to pay three marks, which included the horses and carriage and the labour of getting us in and out.
The cat came, saw the cream, and immediately lappedit up.
These were preferred that took the water up in their hands, and so lapped it, before them who laid themselves quite down to the waters to drink: which argued a more eager and sensual disposition.
And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.
And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.
The fingers of the future beckoned to him; the promises of the future lapped his ears as the waves hadlapped the ship's sides.
Munn had to drive a' the way round to the Fechars brig, and in parts o' the road the water was so deep that it lapped his horse's bellyband.
Gourlay alone stood idly at his gate, lapped in his own satisfaction.
From the supper chamber Miriam passed down a passage to the portico and there seated herself, resting her arms upon the marble balustrade and listening to the waves as they lapped against the walls below.
The breeze had fallen lighter, though a long ripple still lapped noisily upon the beach, and a half-moon had just sailed up above the clustering pines.
This was, however, not particularly easy, for the mad rush of water deflected by the boulders swung her here and there, and the channel was studded with foam-lapped masses of stone.
The roof was covered with three-ply mats and lapped over a little more than half, as shown diagrammatically on the drawing.
Button shanks are made by hand from brass or iron wire, bent and cut by the following means:-- The wire is lapped spirally round a piece of steel bar.
These are lapped round 6 or 7 times with cotton cloth, to soften and equalize their pressure.
The steel is turned round by screwing it into the end of the spindle of a lathe, and the wire by this means lapped close round it till it is covered.
Most military musquets and low-priced guns are fashioned out of a long slip of sheet-iron folded together edge-wise round a skewer into a cylinder, are then lappedover at the seam, and welded at a white heat.
Soon the Chestnut's head showed past his elbow, and they were both lapped on the Black.
I trailed at the heels of the Silver Gray--but Crusader was begging for halter And flew the wide ditch with the swoop of a bird, and on again, lapped on his quarter.
At the three quarters Lauzanne and Diablo were neck and neck; at the half, the Black was lapped on Lucretia; another furlong and she was laboring to keep her place, nose and nose with him.
To-night it was only peace that lapped them round, sitting there in full companionship and affection.
It was enough to wake up in this quiet spacious beautiful house lapped in the peace of its sylvan remoteness, and to feel that the day was to be spent there, it mattered not how.
Then the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet so that a little thin stream of water ran out, and the little dog came up and lapped out of the little thin stream, wagging his stump of a tail very fast.
As they walked together along the white Corniche Road, their faces set towards the gorgeous southern afterglow, while the waves lappedlazily on the grey rocks, all these puzzling thoughts recurred to Krail.
For an immeasurable period, lappedin the rippling of placid centuries, I enjoyed and pondered my tremendous flight.
Fourteen boats require a considerable spread of ocean for comfortable hunting, and when she had completely lapped our line she continued steaming into the north-east, dropping more boats as she went.
But when he saw me stagger down the stream, he rose, went in up to his knees, howled, pawed the water, and lapped the waves with impatience.
We got up and examined the boat's bottom; there was a yawning rent from the stem to the centre, and part of the torn planks lapped one over the other by the twist, the bows being only held together by the iron band which bound the gunwale.
Jerry lapped it so fanatically that not for half a minute did he become aware that the boy had squeezed into it many hot seeds of ripe red peppers.
A white man's footprints he had smelled, and through the maze of all the other prints he followed the one print down through a breach of sea-wall to the sea- pounded coral sand lapped by the sea.
Not accustomed to swimming, strangled by the salt water that lapped into his open mouth, he was getting loggy when first he chanced to see the flash of the captain's torch.
Nor I at yours," he said, noticing how her dresslapped and caressed her form.
Cornelia, her figure lapped precariously in a simple dress, which she had made and pinned together at a cost of fifty cents all told, sat down opposite her young guest.
And so he takes it all in; the stone bed empty and waiting; the Beloved cradled for the last time on His mother's knees to be washed, lapped round, and laid to rest as if He were again the Babe of Bethlehem.
The lower side of her lifted as the long gray swell lapped gurgling to her rail, and then came down again; but that was all.
Then while the smooth swell lapped level with one depressed rail the Shasta shook in every plate, and the men who came scrambling to her slanted deck looked at him anxiously.
Then it commenced to stir a little and slide past the vessel in filmy wisps, and it seemed to Jimmy that the smooth gray swell which lapped about her was getting steeper.
There were deserted gondolas and other craft moored at one side of the little canal, and as they pushed their way past them, the oar lapped the water with the peculiar sound it makes in passing through a restricted passage.
Upon which, dinner being over, the girls went off in search of their wraps, while the Colonel stepped out between the glass doors, and strolled down to the bottom of the garden, where the water lapped the stone parapet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: enclosed; enveloped; surrounded; wrapped; wreathed
