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  • The closest I got to that was when Boingo the Viszla got his claw caught up in my laprobe and panicked.

    Whew... 2005

  • We rose to leave and PT insisted I go into her bedroom, sat me down on her rocking chair, covered me with a laprobe, and admonished "Now you are NOT to leave till that child has been happily fed."

    Never Be Cross or Cruel Roger Sutton 2005

  • Under cover of her heavy laprobe she flexed her feet at the ankles secretly and experimentally, and even succeeded in drawing them inward, a little closer to the seat.

    Dancing with Clara Balogh, Mary 1993

  • There was another silence while he lifted her laprobe, placed her hand beneath it, and covered it up.

    Dancing with Clara Balogh, Mary 1993

  • She stepped out of the car just in time to see the laprobe that had been on the floor of the back stir slightly and then be thrust aside.

    Knocked for a Loop Rice, Craig, 1908-1957 1957

  • He sank into a corner of the tonneau like a thrown laprobe.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • I went downstairs without his knowing it -- and when I put the laprobe in the car I seen he had a suit-case in there.

    Midnight Octavus Roy Cohen 1925

  • I had taken his laprobe out of the car the night before and forgot to put it back -- so I thought I'd better do it.

    Midnight Octavus Roy Cohen 1925

  • Her rich little hat was trimmed with black fur; her hair was almost as dark as the fur; a great boa of black fur was about her shoulders; her hands were vanished into a black muff; and George’s laprobe was black.

    Chapter 7 1918

  • Her rich little hat was trimmed with black fur; her hair was almost as dark as the fur; a great boa of black fur was about her shoulders; her hands were vanished into a black muff; and George's laprobe was black.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

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