Thus Nowell-Wilson cradles a lapful of eggs in one of her drawings, whose poses are modeled on classical canvases.

The commander grabbed his kayak, paddled into the cold waves and retrieved a lapful of cold-shocked turtles.

Then I’d think about Aunt Loma with that lapful of rat or my mother jumping up on the seat, and it was like I was a gun fired off.

When life gives these kids a lapful of more and less inexplicable lemons, Alix and Mason move in together.

Then she saw the woman’s lapful of food and reached out hungrily.