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The phrase "across her lap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is positioned on or resting over a person's lap, often in a physical or metaphorical context.
Example: "She placed the book across her lap as she settled into the chair."
Alternatives: "over her lap" or "on her lap".
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The car had old-style seat belts, and by fastening hers across her lap he produced from Olivia a languorous smile.
Tina, now 8, lay horizontal across her lap.
He said, "Cover up," and then reached across her lap for the beer on the floor.
Or the Virgin up there on the wall, holding her dead adult son across her lap.
Her walking stick, with a series of snakes carved into it, was across her lap.
He lies semi-rigid across her lap, his eyes half open, anxious, nuzzling his mother.
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A second grandchild, an infant, slept spread across her parents' laps.
She finds Matilda Barnstone in her rocking chair on the library porch, smoking a pipe, her sawed-off shotgun resting comfortably across the floral sprigs of her lap.
But she didn't go about the job the traditional way, with needle in hand and the material stretched taut across a wooden hoop on her lap.
She said he then made her lie across his lap and spanked her.
The pair start talking and Selma is literally all over Sean, draping her body across his lap and leaving her face only a couple of inches from his.
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