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Letter "L" » lapping
«If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Cats,
Dogs
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fond, fonder, fondest, get the jump, jumps, jump on, jump out, jump up, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, warmer
«Every baby needs a lap.»
«There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire.»
«[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.»
«I've been in more laps than a napkin.»
«I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash, and that was the attitude of it, fuck off.»
«And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.»
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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cast, cast about, cast on, development, display, energy, faculties, fortune, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, previously, resources, thrown, undergo, undergone, underwent, unsusceptible
«The seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.»
«I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .I hear it in the deep heart's core.»
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