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  • That same person who wrote that would go to the natives that I grew up with, watch some kind of ritual lap-lap dance, which is a very sexual ritual, and think, Oh, how fascinating.

    Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008

  • And John Philip Law was suitably disturbing as an angel, only wearing a lap-lap over his scrawny arse. *disgusted shudder*

    23rd June '05 2005

  • A tall buff man swinging himself around on a rope only dressed in a lap-lap - you do the maths.

    6th March '03 2003

  • The wind rustled the dry leaves left on the trees around, but there was no lap-lap of water.

    Five On A Hike Together Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1951

  • The soft lap-lap of the water goes on, and the tedious cask gets nearer: it will slide by the counter.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • The air was full of the heavy scent of the pines, and the only sound was the ceaseless lap-lap of the lazy ripples at the water's edge.

    The Slipper Point Mystery 1921

  • Hebrides; quite one-fifth part of their lives is spent in making and eating lap-lap.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

  • Mrs. Agelan throws back the leaves and uncovers the beautifully cooked golden lap-lap.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

  • The lap-lap of the water, the long slow rise and fall, and the dartling flying-fish apparently claimed their attention.

    Parrot & Co. Harold MacGrath 1901

  • It was the lap-lap of water against the vessel's side.

    Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

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