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Usage examples of lion.

But Aganippe wanted to face down this lion on her own, with the least amount of helpful interference.

Goddess was the lead female of Goddess Pride -- a friend and companion ever since Aganippe was old enough to mix with the lions.

Robert succeeded in soothing him -- and the poor old lion is very quiet on the whole, roaring softly, to beguile the time, in Latin alcaics against his wife and Louis Napoleon.

You talked about not letting the public get free looks at Madame Alp, but everywhere on the road people are looking at the lion for free.

Amigas, amigos, I wish I had had the courage of a lion, the strength of a tiger.

I would like you to meet my sister, Tulie of the Aurochs Hearth, headwoman of the Lion Camp.

Tulie and Barzec would be willing to adopt Jondalar to the Aurochs Hearth, and Nezzie and I want you to become a daughter of the Lion Hearth.

Swift and sure, at ten yards off, his arrow rushed through the body of the driver, and then, with a roar as of the leaping lion, he sprang like an avenging angel into the midst of the astonished ruffians.

Bacchus voudrait bien ne pas avoir repris la peau de lion et la massue.

Mountain Lion up the valley of the Nile, until they came to el Baban, The Gates, and found the Saracen host drawn up for battle in the gut of the low sandy hills.

Out came a great company of Bandogs and mastifes, more fit to pul down bears and lions than me, whom when I beheld I thought verily I should presently die : but I turned myself about, and ranne as fast as ever I might to the stable from whence I came.

It came shooting through the foam just like a beaching canoe and as it dragged itself up the sand a sound like the far off roar of a lion came echoing along the cliffs.

The beisa is one of the most aggressive antelopes in Africa, capable of killing even a fully grown lion with its long rapier horns.

Looks like one more poor Irish bogman is down and out in front of the mighty British lion.

Ears are the best trophy you can take from a man, not as good as the skin of a blackmaned lion or the great bossed hams of a buffalo, but better than the scalp.