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  • Order reigns, each has his justly appointed share, and the state rests, in security, 'lapt in universal law.'

    A REVIEW 2010

  • And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.21

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • – Raoul Felder We two shall lie together, lapt In a five percent Exchequer Bond.

    Divorce Lawyers Could Use Subsidies Too Raoul Felder 2008

  • And there were great headlands that went out into the fire, as into a sea; and the fire did lap very quiet about these, and where the fire lapt about them, there did shine and spirt out green flames and vapours at diverse times.

    The Night Land 2007

  •     Melting lapt in flame fatly the slippery caul.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Melting lapt in flame fatly the slippery caul.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

    World Government Lu, Catherine 2006

  • Love, the grand enchanter, “lapt them in Elysium,” and every sense was harmonized to joy and social extacy.

    Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

  • And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

    Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) 1989

  • The bewtifull and honorable damosels sate in order vpon the Benches, compast about all along by the sides of the walles vppon the right side, and the best of the Court, with a rare and strange kinde of womanly dressing vppon their heads, as is in the world, with the tresses of their haire lapt and bowed vp in Caules of gold.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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