Place of retreat

Usage examples of lair.

Orola and Anoa strolled back towards their lairs, leaving Alara standing before hers alone.

Thus, with food and bedding I returned to my lair, where after a meal of raw meat, to which I had now become quite accustomed, I dragged the bowlder before the entrance and curled myself upon a bed of grasses--a naked, primeval, cave man, as savagely primitive as my prehistoric progenitors.

Remember the good times we had together in the caveer, lair, I mean, your home.

They talked about neighbours in Cush, Hugh cut a piece of cardboard for the broken window upstairs, Cathal read his comic and Manus tried to entice the cats from their lair.

But couch where we might, no Cushat ever came near our insidious lair.

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.

The Shadow, himself, had followed the crippled dacoit to a hidden lair.

But in this strange and unknown part of London, below Rumbledom, Dewdrop had made his lair.

Hidden in this lair, the dark-faced crook had used Gat Lober and Driller Borson as his tools, with Skeeter Wigan as an intermediary.

After the writing of the letter to Aunty Emang, the letter that she was confident would draw the blackmailer from her lair, she found it difficult to settle down to anything.

Ulf blew on it to light the esparto, then rushed unhesitatingly at the entrance to the lair.

He continued forward to the end of the tunnel, the smell of his own perspiration overpowering the fetor of the musty lair.

I am going to help him and my fosterling, just as I should have when he first ran away, and the Lair can just find itself another shaman.

Of starlike flowers and herbs of odour sweet, To pave the temple that his poesy Has framed, while near his feet grim lions couch, And kids, fearless from love, creep near his lair.

Stanachs first choice, but the Theiwar guard theyd overpowered in a cold dark corridor near the dragons lair had responded to their questions about Realgar and his plans with only a hard laugh and a boast he seemed happy to make: Hornfels dead on Northgate now!