Mrs. Heeny, swooping down on her bag, drew from it a handful of newspaper cuttings, which she spread on her ample lap and proceeded to sort with a moistened forefinger.

It was to ring out yet once againand, incapable of the anticipation, I reposed my shut eyes in a sort of resignation upon the maternal lap.

With a smile on her face, and a sprig in her cap, She calls you to feast from her bountiful lap. Come out from your alleys, your courts, and your lanes, And breathe, like your eagles, the air of our plains; Take a whiff from our fields, and your excellent wives Will declare it all nonsense insuring your lives.'

Miss Prudence was not impulsive, at least she believed that she had outgrown yielding to a sudden rush of feeling, but at these words she burst into weeping, and drawing nearer dropped her head in the broad lap.

Like a dutiful son, he rushes to the arms of his maternal parent and deposits in her capacious lap the dainty prize.

She was no sylph when I knew her, my dear Miss Aitken, but she had a most comfortable lap, and a cap with cherry ribbons, and the kindest heart in all the world.

Standing there confused in the grim silence, unable for the instant to determine how to advance in the dark, he could hear the rapid beating of his own heart, and the continuous lap of waves outside.

Must repose for countless years, Reft of all her briny tears, All the rights he owned by birth, In the dusty lap of earth.

And, while thou fillest thy lap with flowers, To make amends for wintery hours, The breeze, the sunshine, and the place, Shall from thy tender brow efface Each vestige of untimely care, That sour restraint had graven there; And on thy every look impress A more excelling childishness.

Instead of flying to her friendly lap for that protection which I had so often experienced when I have been weak and timid, I shrunk back terrified and bewildered to my bed, where I lay in broken sleeps and miserable fancies, till the morning, which I had so much reason to wish for, came.

But so might one who had been unfaithful to a trusting wife and was now risking his neck to pour gold into the greedy lap of a frowsy mistress.

"After four incessant years across Dora's knee the peace New Year ought surely to hold something good in its kindly lap for well-strafed automobilists.

At sunset he was in his accustomed seat in the orchard, his hands clasped over the breviary in his listless lap, his eyes fixed upon the mountain between him and that mysterious sea that had brought so much into his life.

Up, away, the frisky squirrel hies, Golden woodlights glancing in his eyes, And adown the tree Great ripe nuts, kissed brown by July sun, In the little lap dropped, one by one.

All the monotonous level lap of the heights which seemed without end was a symbol that separated her from her desire.

" It was not in nature for Aunt Barbara to say so much without crying, and her tears were dropping fast into her motherly lap, where Tabby was now lying.

By means of a pair of fluted feeding rollers a narrow lap, about 7½ in.

With what a heavy, heavy spirit From the earth's rustic lap I feel Again the joy of Springtide odors That once could make my spirit reel!

Here are some of them which I have culled from various authors: "A tiny feather from the wing of love, dropped into the sacred lap of motherhood.

Her brilliant eyes reflected the dancing firelight; her shapely hands, jewelled like Mrs. Breckenridge's, but after an even more rare and perfectly chosen fashion, lay in her silken lap.

The village itself lay, spread out above the beach, a hundred feet below the windows, and the only sound was the steady lap and splash of the rollers upon the shingle.

" Him the nymphs pillowed, all disconsolate, On their sweet laps, and with soft words beguiled; But Heracles was troubled for the child.

Because we are out of its uneasy lap to-night, we almost resemble in felicity Richter's Walt, who felt himself so happy, that he was transported to the third heaven, and held the other two in his hand, that he might give them away.

Afterwards, with occasional endearments for Ethel, he set himself to a revision of his last year's note-books, for now the botany was finished, the advanced zoological coursethe last lap, as it were, for the Forbes medalwas beginning.

How did it come to pass that every one did not know all about Sampson, the man who had laid his Lead on Delilah's wicked lap, to be shorn of his strength.