You see, I had put myself in Hardcastle's skin, and I was quite clear that I should have buried a lapful of gold and notes somewhere in the bush until the hue and cry had blown over.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Stefana is dreaming it over a lapful of red roses.
"Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings"
Annie Hamilton Donnell
"And now," said Mrs. Fox, observing her eyes in a fine frenzy rolling from her lapful of pincushions and shirt buttons, to a mandarin nearly as large as life, "perhaps, my dear Miss Douglas, you will do me the favour to take a look of my little collection."
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier