What is "leonine"

Usage examples of "leonine".

Its astronomical and leonine symbolism does not make any sense unless it was built as an equinoctial marker for the Age of Leo.

Vanyel had a moment to register disappointment at the scuffed floor, dusty furnishings, and fuded paint before the leonine Bard at the window-end of the room began the class.

It was after Sideling had gone that the murderous shipping man indulged in his real thoughts, which were made plain both by certain actions and the expressions which showed upon his leonine countenance.

There was that smell, the overall leonine stink of the compound, but something subtler when one of them came close, the milky sweetness I had noticed about Rosa.

I breathed deep, trying to clear my head of that leonine underground tang.

If I am in a crowd, sometimes I will detect a whiff of that leonine animal musk of the Coalescents, and I have to retreat to my room, or the fresh air of the empty hills above the towns.

Was it machairodus, one of the leonine sabertooth cats that were the commonest large predators of the Pliocene?

Heralds raised trumpets emblazoned with tassels, silent fanfare sounded for the smiling, bejeweled figure of Lysaer s'llessid, mounted on his chestnut horse, flanked by Lord Diegan and Etarra's field general, the grim-faced, leonine Gnudsog.

A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden.

Many a good wineshopkeeper of Pantin, of the Vertus or of La Cunette, whose "establishment" was without custom in consequence of the émeute, became leonine on seeing his dancing-hall deserted, and died to preserve order represented by the tavern.

As things were, he could only scorch them with his leonine eyes, wishing each and every one of them into the most agonizing firepit of the hottest hell.

This bloody feast is described in Leonine verse in the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, (Script.

There were tough neighborhoods on this side of the river, the area around the Ripetto docks for one, but for sheer nastiness the streets within the Leonine wall that was part of the Vatican's medieval defenses were Rome's low point.

He strode through the marble corridors of the palatial mansion he had called home for the past twenty-one years, two brindle mastiffs padding at his heels with a leonine grace that matched his own.

Shortly after our re-embarkation, while I was leading by a long way, and still full of a noble, exulting spirit in honour of the sun, the swift pace, and the church bells, the river made one of its leonine pounces round a corner, and I was aware of another fallen tree within a stone-cast.