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lioness

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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Before him lay the bloodstained shreds of the cloak and clear in the dust were the tracks of the lioness . ▪ Both Master and Mistress of Animals are shown between pairs of attendant animals or walking accompanied by a lion or ...

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A multitude of whelps came forth from the lair of this barbaric lioness, in three cyuls, as they call them, that is, in there ships of war, with their sails wafted by the wind and with omens and prophecies favourable, for it was foretold by a certain soothsayer among them, that they should occupy the country to which they were sailing three hundred years, and half of that time, a hundred and fifty years, should plunder and despoil the same.

Sorais herself directing the movement, as fearless as a lioness heading the main attack.

In 1847 or 1848 a lioness was killed by a native shikari in the Dumoh district.

Celestials have implanted maternal love in the breast of the lioness, of the typhonic river-horse of the Nile.

I have before alluded, were noticed in the skin of the lioness shot at Dumoh in 1847.

Their voices rose loud and clear in the silence of the amphitheatre, and there was neither pause nor waver in the tone as the entrance to one of the cages at the other end of the arena was opened, and a lion and a lioness appeared.

Her demeanor instantly changed from beguiled doe to a fierce lioness protecting her mate.

Self-mutilation is seen in the lower animals, and Kennedy, in mentioning the case of a hydrocephalic child who ate off its entire under lip, speaks also of a dog, of cats, and of a lioness who ate off their tails.

Sir John Hailey in the face left exposed by his visorless bascinet, wrenching off both helmet and head and flinging the blood-spouting body back down onto the heaving deck of the sloop Lioness.

Abu Batn, as, fighting like a lioness indeed, La sought to defend herself.

He knew she had the heart of a lioness and had almost run Drumfire down over the last half mile of the Christmas racing.

It was with difficulty that Jim coaxed Drumfire back to where Bakkat stood beside the dead lioness.

The carcass of the lioness, half disembowelled, her reeking guts hanging out of the cavity, slithered after him and Drumfire could stand it no longer.

Lionesses and she-cheetahs, leopards sleek of flank and smilodons long of tooth.

As soon as he appeared, the lionesses gave way, and only after he gorged did the females take their share.