What is "lionlike"

Usage examples of "lionlike".

As I listened to his heavy breathing, I could hear a somewhat ominous lionlike rumbling in his chest.

She dodged and circled as the longfangs, snarling now with its head lowered and its parted jaws slavering menacingly, pursued her doggedly, its eyes sometimes a lionlike gold, and sometimes cold white lamps of all-too-wise light.

The Denarian spat out what I took to be an oath, and I felt that lionlike foot land in the middle of my back, flattening me to the floor, claws digging into my skin.

This one resembled a huge cat, lionlike but scarred with lines that seemed to indicate dapplings or lesions upon its stone coat.

At one point, well out from the edge of the herd, five of the monstrous, spotted, lionlike cats sat or sprawled in the high, weedy grasses, being seemingly ignored by the bison and the horses alike.

A magnificent fellow he is too, with his bushy orange fur and lionlike head.

In the next a huge lionlike cat was mauling a youth with its claws until the screaming ceased, then the beast tossed away the body with a head shake.

In this guise, attended by Edith and her women, and preceded and followed by a few officers and men-at-arms, she hastened to the tent of her lionlike husband.

He was a great lean thing with a lionlike head, hair waving to the quarters of the world, and his nature was sheer hunger.

Perhaps they had evolved from something snakelike or lionlike, but they were vastly different now, armed with powers still unknown.

His dark hair spilled unbound over his shoulders, and as she gazed at him he gave that achingly familiar lionlike toss of his mane, and her hormones roared in response.

Cassiopeia is roaring lionlike in the heavens -- an inverted W signifying my name.

There was one complication which Nelly Lebrun might have foreseen after her pretended change of heart and her simulated confession to Joe Rix that she still loved the lionlike Lord Nick.

The sunlight, after the filter of the network of the leaves, seemed violently yellow and intense, lionlike, full of inhuman energy.

The eyes rolled, the mouth gaped open with a lionlike roar, and out poured a cloud of red vapor which swept toward Morgana against the wind.