lap dog
Example Sentences
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In the verses on the Lap-dog, the pronouns thou and you are offensively confounded; and the turn at the end is from Waller.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty.
From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Weir, Harrison
Her retreat from the Lap-dog onto the centre of the dinner-table was understood to express a deep-rooted though mistaken idea of avoiding a defiling touch.
From Animal Heroes by Seton, Ernest Thompson
The Lap-dog was a great favorite with his master, and he frisked and jumped about him in a manner pleasant to see.
From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Weir, Harrison
His words are: 'A Hyphen, marked thus - is employed in connecting compounded words: as, Lap-dog, tea-pot, pre-existence, self-love, to-morrow, mother-in-law.'
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
