One with the yips?

Usage examples of lapdog.

At the last instant the huge animal dodged lithely around him, and the historian saw that it held in its mouth a lapdog, its eyes dark pools of terror.

The yapping lapdog shrieked in alarm and raced off, bounding like a ragged ball of mud and straw.

She also shrewdly concluded that if Caesar had given his wife a lapdog, Calpurnia would now be surrounded by puppies.

Rushton continued his monologue throughout the rescue, occasionally referring to Scamp as a dustbin and a lapdog, expressions that he accompanied with a grin at Selina.

Beside him lay the scrawny Hengese lapdog that Truth said was named Roach.

The Semk seemed eager to close on the Malazan lapdogs, and were paying in blood for their desire.

Nobel laureates are his lapdogs and the United States Army has been tied up and delivered as a gift to him.

My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades.

Your Grace, himself, le Chevalier Marc Marcel de Montjoie de Vires, and one solitary FitzGerald, a guardsman named Sean something or other, who will be about as outclassed on such a council as a lapdog among as many boarhounds.

Their wool coats were unbuttoned in the warming day, and fit them like gunnysacks on lapdogs.

Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle.

It's also no surprise that cane growers are turning for a bailout to their favorite slobbering lapdogs, the state politicians in Tallahassee.

Gesler's two dogs trotted past, the huge cattle dog trailing the Hengese Roach as if the hairy lapdog carried its own leash.

Of course - any natives suspected of loyalty would be fair game - including the gora-colonel's lapdog, as Ram Mangal had charmingly called me.

He was hardly back in his bed, thinking hard, when Madame Flaubert oozed in, her lapdog panting behind her.