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Letter "L" » lap
«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)
| About:
Cats,
Dogs
| Keywords:
fond, fonder, fondest, get the jump, jumps, jump on, jump out, jump up, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, warmer
«I saw nothing but waters wap [lap] and waves wanne [come].»
«I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head»
«If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon will make you furious; if you do like him, he can turn his plate over in your lap and you won't mind.»
«I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept on to my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it is my own, perhaps I could s»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
clutched, clutches, clutching, crept, dreamed, evening clothes, lap, ran
«I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash, and that was the attitude of it, fuck off.»
«How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Down to Earth, gladly, lap, mortality, mother Earth, sensible, sentence
«Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up»
«Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.»
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
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