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"Lapdog" Quotes from Famous Books

... they could have been likely to receive; and that he repaid patronage in the coin of amusement and of bland lenitives, rather than in that of obsequious adulation. For we are not required nor permitted to suppose that there was the stuff of a hero in "little Tom Moore;" or that the lapdog of the drawing-room would under any circumstances have been the wolf-hound of the public sheepfold. In the drawing-room he is a sleeker lapdog, and lies upon more and choicelier-clothed laps than he would in "the two-pair ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... when she had recovered herself. "Why don't you make me something of a life? You can't expect me to go on like this forever—getting up in the morning, riding, driving, lessons, dressing, and bed. It's the life of a lapdog." ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... and tear of the sensibilities is enough to kill a prize-fighter in full-training, let alone a man that has been leading such a molly-coddle life as I have of late, lounging about drawing-rooms like a lapdog." ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

Words linked to "Lapdog" : dog, Canis familiaris, domestic dog