Height of the lapboard is usually the same as for armrests. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Last, but not least, there's the lapboard my grandfather made for my mother when she was 8 1926. ❋ James Gurney (2010)
Not bothering to seat himself again, he pulled up the lapboard while hovering overhead, then typed in the six-digit string that would allow Dana to enter a new course into the navigation subsystem. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He had to search for the belt straps that held him in place, and it was another minute before he remembered how to open the lapboard. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Baptiste took a last glance at the section report on his lapboard, then pushed it away and carefully stood up, feeling sluggish against the pull of gravity. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of DUCES TECUM. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It had just reached the God-will-it-ever-burn stage, with smoke billowing over the lapboard fence into the neighbour's yard. ❋ Pawson, Stuart (1999)
Returning to his Morris chair and the redoubtable lapboard astride it, Grey resumed being the most successful and popular author of his age. ❋ May, Stephen J. (1997)
Inevitably, however, Grey turned to his writing duties, which he performed on a rugged lapboard that rested on the arms of a comfortable Morris chair. ❋ May, Stephen J. (1997)
She was wearing a nightgown hitched up above her knees, wide-spread thighs supporting a lapboard and pad upon which she was writing intently. ❋ Liddy, G. Gordon (1980)
Useful as this contrivance was for some purposes, on the whole it was not as convenient as a lapboard that could be held on the arms of a rocking chair, chiefly because the latter could accommodate several books at the same time and above all my big Greek lexicon. ❋ James Powell Cocke (1947)
It was long past midnight when I put aside the lapboard I had used to support all the volumes spread out before me and rose from my chair. ❋ James Powell Cocke (1947)
On a lapboard she smoothed out a double sheet of soft white buckskin; and drawing from a beaded case that hung on the left of her wide belt a long, narrow blade, she trimmed the buckskin into shape. ❋ Unknown (1921)
He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of _Duces Tecum_. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
Only once had he set Cropsie and his lapboard literature aside, and followed his own impulse. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)
Jasper arose, put down his lapboard, shut his knife and with a serious air said to the old darkey. ❋ Opie Percival Read (1895)
It consisted of a small doorway in the front of the third storey, with a simple iron beam and pulley above, and the _lapboard_ merely a horizontal door hinged to the wall beneath, and raised or let fall by means of a sliding-bolt, which shot from the wall when there was occasion to put the apparatus of death in requisition. ❋ Various (1841)
The Leipzig Games Convention, the new Xbox 360 camera, more Wii pricing rumors, a compilation of compilations, and the return of everybody's favorite lapboard are reminding us all how quickly the summer is coming to an end. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Our first podcast of 2006 talks about DS sales, some major moves in MMORPGs and the snappy looking Phantom lapboard. ❋ Unknown (2010)