Royal families

Usage examples of prides.

She, noble creature, so marvelous in her temptations and beauties, with the excellences of her mind and the determined prides of her heart, how strange that she, so much prizing her freedom, is made whole only as it is ruthlessly swept from her, that the true totality of her response, the fullness of her ecstasy is the yielding and the surrender, and the more delicious and incontrovertible the more complete.

And the Queen-mothers of the First Prides, wizards and nonwizards both—because there are always wizards in a Choice, at least a few—considered the Choice.

All People who ran in prides, from the microfelids to the great cats of this world, did the same.

Every now and then they would give a little of the information to some of the other prides, the 'countries', as a present.

A front page which was almost entirely classified ads, both commercial and private: then interior pages which reported what seemed to the publishers to be important news—most of it having to do with ehhif from the pride-of-prides “Britain”, or other prides closely associated with it—and then long reports about what was going on in the place where the pride-rulers sat, the “Houses of Parliament”.

Every now and then they would give a little of the information to some of the other prides, the ‘countries’, as a present.

They all ran in prides, and so when they grew into mind, the First Queens made the Choice for them, as queens decide what their prides will do today.

Its most basic structure implies a conflict over hunting territory between two prides, and most authorities agree that it evolved from this strictly survival-oriented behavior to a more structured but still violent dominance game between individual members of a single pride or (later) extended pride-community, with the loser usually being run off the pride’s territory, or killed.

How foolishly I had brought my prides and my plans to the northern forests.

Very few European travellers, bearing their sophisticated weapons, had yet ventured into these remote lands, and even the huge prides of lion which followed the herds could not check their natural multiplication.