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Sentences ending with lion

And the swiftness with which the petition was granted equalled its ardor; for the eagle had fallen and lowered its pinions beneath the superior might of the lion. [10]
He was about to visit the mystic chambers with his much-talked-of lion. [10]
People stared as they walked along, for his dress was curious and his head was bare, and his hair like the coat of a young lion. [11]
Pious, reckless, with the courage of a lion. [10]
Why impose the same laws upon goat and lion? [5]
You led them on, fighting like a lion. [10]
In the middle of the farther wall was a couch in the form of a lion. [10]
The lion found nothing in it but a lion. [5]
Four of the monks had been butchered out of hand; but Apelles, with a few of the more resolute spirits in the company, had fought the heathen with the valor of a lion. [10]
But Number Five looks as innocent as a lamb, and as brave as a lion. [6]

Short sentences using lion

That is a lion. [5]
There lies Caesar's lion. [10]
You fought like a lion. [10]
Ho, there, Lion! [5]

Sentences containing lion two or more times

Thus as the weeks rolled on Washington grew up, into an imposing lion once more, but a lion that roamed the peaceful fields of religion and temperance, and revisited the glittering domain of fashion no more. [5]
May I venture to contrast youth and experience in medical practice, something in the way the man painted the lion, that is, the lion under? [3]
I have forgotten the famous bears, and all else.--I remember the Percy lion on the bridge over the little river at Alnwick,--the leaden lion with his tail stretched out straight like a pump-handle,--and why? [6]
They say St. Mark had a tame lion, and used to travel with him--and every where that St. Mark went, the lion was sure to go. [5]
Izdubar strangling a lion and fighting with a lion (relief at Khorsabad) is admirably copied in Delitzsch's edition of G. Smith's Chaldean Genesis. [10]
The winged lion is found every where--and doubtless here, where the winged lion is, no harm can come. [5]
While he was engaged in fighting three panthers and a lion, the lion had torn out his eye and with it part of his cheek. [10]
If the lion drove the bird away, it didn't do no good; he was back again the minute the lion was busy. [5]
They was plucky creturs; they would tackle one end of a lion that was being gnawed at the other end by another lion. [5]
The lion had conquered his antagonist, when another dog, the brother of the conquered one, broke away from his chain, attacked the lion, and with the help of the wounded dog, vanquished him. [10]

More example sentences with the word lion in them

Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
The Bavaria stands with the right hand upon the sheathed sword, and the left raised in the act of bestowing a wreath of victory; and the lion of the kingdom is beside her. [4]
Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. [5]
It had glass windows and a lion on a blue shield on the door, and within it was all salmon silk, save the painted design on the ceiling. [9]
The sleeping lion will wake again, and, when he uses his teeth and paws--" "My mother will run away, and your father will follow her," replied Caesarion with a melancholy smile, wholly untinged by scorn. [10]
The lion, it will be seen, was self-sacrificing even to the extent of double dummy. [9]
The noble lion which walked by his side, and in whose mane his left hand was buried, was not more unapproachable than he. [10]
The lion, too, which lay unchained by his master's seat, gave her a fright now and then; for if Caesar raised his voice in anger, he growled and stood up. [10]
So we reckoned we would drop down into the lion market and see how we could make out there. [5]
The old knight was smiling; how stately was his mien, and how well the silver breast plate beseemed him, with the golden lion rampant of the Im Hoffs! [10]
Behold how the unclean creatures are wending toward the dead lion and gathering to the feast: "Reminiscences of Dickens. [5]
Next I gently touched up the newest stranger--the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tailor from Quincy. [5]
They will prove to you by convincing argument that yonder lion is a rabbit. [10]
So she liked to pass through Lion Street in her walks, for it led her by his house. [10]
It is easier to defend one's self against the lion than the scorpion. [10]
But pretty soon there was plenty of sound, for the lion was catching up. [5]
In those days there was not a line in his face, not an angle in his body--all smoothly rounded and lithe and alert, like him that was called "the young lion of Dedan. [11]
It seemed like the story of the youth doomed to be slain by a lion before reaching a certain age, and whose fate found him out in the heart of the tower where his father had shut him up for safety. [6]
The student of the seventeenth century opened his Licetus and saw figures of a lion with the head of a woman, and a man with the head of an elephant. [3]
You are in the position of a lion who has his keeper on one side, and the bars of his cage on the other. [10]
If you let the moment pass without striking you will remain in the cage; but if you act and show yourself a lion your keepers are done for! [10]
And there was the lion, a-ripping around under me, and roaring and springing up in the air at the ladder, and only missing it about a quarter of an inch, it seemed to me. [5]
Have you seen the Lion of Lucerne? [5]
At this moment the lion crept closer to his master. [10]
A jackal reconnoitered the lair to see how badly the lion was crippled, and conceived with astounding insolence the plan of capturing the lion's quarry. [9]
We hauled in the ladder and dropped down till we was just above the reach of the animals, then we let down a rope with a slip-knot in it and hauled up a dead lion, a small tender one, then yanked up a cub tiger. [5]
Why, my friend the Judge is not only, as it turns out, not a dead lion, nor even a living one,--he is the rugged Russian Bear! [7]
But he had the head and shoulders of a lion, and even the lion's roar. [9]
On each of the gate-posts a crouching lion was outlined dimly against the fainting light, and, by crossing the street, we could see the upper line of a latticed gallery under the low roof. [9]
They will remember the funny adventure with "the man who speaks English," and, no doubt, unite with us in warmly commending the Hotel Lion d'Or at Sion as the nastiest inn in Switzerland. [4]
The lion beat the floor with his tail with pleasure at recognizing her. [10]
Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies. [5]
These buildings formed the citadel, round the threefold walls of which, many centuries before, King Meles had carried a lion in order to render them impregnable. [10]
There we carried the bridge by assault, and left a force to hold it, the rest of the army marching away next morning toward Beaugency, where the lion Talbot, the terror of the French, was in command. [5]
You would think that this lion has two heads, but that is not so; one is only a shadow. [5]
It is possible that the roaring of the lion may be of some service to him by striking terror into his adversary; for when enraged he likewise erects his mane and thus instinctively tries to make himself appear as terrible as possible. [1]
When they heard that the lion had roused and shaken himself and had unaccountably come forth of his own accord, they hastened to the state capital to renew their offers. [9]
How have you tamed our lion, and how sweetly does he roar! [11]
The Mosque of St. Sophia is the chief lion of Constantinople. [5]
But though the son of Nun is a lion, he will find his master in Mesu. [10]
They said that some of them had grown old and gone out of active service, but were comfortably housed and cared for in the henery--or the Lion House, as it is strangely named. [5]
He was a solid, slow-thinking old fellow, but he had that wisdom of the north which can turn from dove to serpent and from serpent to lion in the moment. [11]
The lion was silent now, and in a far corner prepared to spring, crouching low. [11]
The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. [5]
And the lion should come too, to return thanks for the good meat which was brought to him so regularly. [10]
Of course the sheep will play round the dead lion, and the ass will even spurn him with his hoof so long as he is merely sick. [10]
The idea that she, the humble artist's daughter, could harbor the soul of a Persian princess, amused her; and when the lion lifted his head and lashed the floor with his tail at her approach, she felt that she had won his approbation. [10]
As she entered, she saw a heap moving in one corner--a lion lately bought. [11]
Read: "When we see a monk going about with a lion and looking up into heaven, we know that that is St. Mark. [5]
The shape is right, the attitude is right, the proportions are right, but that indescribable something which makes the Lion of Lucerne the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world, is wanting. [5]
The lion was resting, but when he starts up, let his foes beware! [10]
A large but rather spare man, with broad shoulders and a massive head, covered with chestnut curls which fell down upon his coat collar and which he had a habit of shaking as a lion is supposed to shake his mane. [5]
Dionysus is equally powerful on sea and on land; in the pirates' ship he assumed the form of a lion, and the pirates, filled with terror, flung themselves into the sea, and in the form of dolphins followed their lost bark. [10]
The spokes are planted in the solid hub as strongly as the jaw-teeth of a lion in their deep-sunken sockets. [6]
The "Sword of Persia" was rarely so friendly to any one; and Theocritus owed much of the favor shown him by Caracalla to the fact that at their first meeting the lion had been on particularly good terms with him. [10]
Mild-mannered and frail, patient in ordinary converse, --a lion for the faith. [9]
None of our party got an opportunity to take dinner with Mr. Young, but a Gentile by the name of Johnson professed to have enjoyed a sociable breakfast in the Lion House. [5]
Then she called out another larger lion, which came unwillingly at first. [11]
The spectators were once much disgusted when a lion and lioness, with the dog that pursued them, all ran into the den, and, like good friends, stood very peaceably together looking out at the people. [4]
It depends only on how soon our brother Philometor--who fought like a lion this morning--perceives that he is more fit to be a commander of horse, a lute-player, an attentive host of word-splitting guests--than the ruler of a kingdom. [10]
The lion was often unwittingly rough, and perhaps that was part of his fascination. [9]
In the centre of the room was a cage in which one great lion paced to and fro in fury. [11]
Jean Jacques' admiration of the lion who could, and would, slay him was the best tribute to his own character. [11]
Like a horde of hungry ticks you have stuck to the tail of the Hermitage Lion to the end of his life; and you are still sticking to it, and drawing a loathsome sustenance from it, after he is dead. [7]
At the mouth of a tunnel a lion stood motionless, menacing, regarding them. [9]
I've the spirit of a lion, when it comes to such a chance as that. [8]
The slumbering Philostratus now and then murmured incomprehensible words to himself; and the lion, who perhaps was dreaming of his freedom in his sandy home, whined low in his sleep. [10]
In a brief note to Aldrich he said: "I sleep like a lamb and write like a lion--I mean the kind of a lion that writes--if any such. [5]
Perhaps she ought not to venture to irritate the lion that day. [10]
The young lion no longer asked the wise counsel of the experienced admiral. [10]
Suddenly a lion near them raised a shaggy head, emitting a series of undulating, soul-shaking roars. [9]
I need not name the animal whose Parthian warfare terrifies and puts to flight the mightiest hunter that ever roused the tiger from his jungle or faced the lion of the desert. [6]
I killed that mountain lion, and I ate the haunch of deer I dragged from under her . [11]
It was a most amazing good supper we had; lion steak, tiger steak, fried fish, and hot corn-pone. [5]
The cow was more terrible than a lion on the track. [4]
I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. [7]
The other young man turned his back and became absorbed in the picture of a lion getting ready to tear a lady to pieces. [9]
No, the coming 'man on horseback' on our side must be a great strategist, with the soul of that insane lion, mad old John Brown, in his belly. [6]
The Lion of Lucerne would be impressive anywhere, but nowhere so impressive as where he is. [5]
And as he looked, his excited imagination showed him Melissa stroking the noble brute, and the lion lashing the ground with his tail when he heard the light step of her little feet. [10]
If not a literary lion, what was that Somebody to be? [9]
He patted the lion with soothing words of praise, and exclaimed, contemptuously: "These are the descendants of the Macedonians, with whom the greatest of heroes conquered the world! [10]
He was a lion who roamed at large over a great variety of hunting grounds, some of which it would be snobbish to mention; for many reasons he preferred Quicksands: a man-eater, a woman-eater, and extraordinarily popular, nevertheless. [9]
That tough old lion went away from there a good deal tamed and civilized--not to say softened and sweetened, for perhaps those expressions would hardly fit him. [5]
Downward slid the lion of England, the garrison drums beat a dirge, and the Hair Buyer marched out at the head of his motley troops. [9]
A fine old lion he was, with his flowing white mane and his tameless spirit; yes, and his indestructible energy as well; for he fought as knightly and vigorous a fight that day as the best man there. [5]
In him the Lion and the Lamb, the Eagle and the Dove dwelt together in amity and power. [9]
You'd skin your lion and shoot him afterwards--voila! [11]
Would not one like to attend twenty consecutive soirees, at each one of which the lion of the party should be the Man of the Monument, at the beginning of each century, all the way, we will say, from Anno Domini 2000 to Ann. [6]
The lion, who lay chained beside the throne, stirred as he caught sight of the new-comers, which caused Caracalla to exclaim to Melissa: "You have stayed away from me so long that my 'Sword of Persia' fails to recognize you. [10]
That was, to kill a lion with the pepper-box revolver, and then sail away while the others stopped to fight over the carcass. [5]
I can't speak it--I'd glory in your manhood--the lion in you that means to slay for me. [13]
Did he owe it to the laurel crown which rested on his head, or to the white toga which fell about him in ample folds, leaving only the sinewy arm bare by which he led the lion? [10]
The moon made it just like daylight, only a heap softer; and once we see a lion standing all alone by himself, just all alone on the earth, it seemed like, and his shadder laid on the sand by him like a puddle of ink. [5]
And however natural it is to desire a lion for one's friend, to be eaten is both uncomfortable and inglorious. [9]
When the lion is crippled, the jackals begin to range. [9]
The Twins, for instance, are the mariner's divinities, Castor and Pollux; Hercules stands by the Lion whom he has subdued; and the Fishes are dolphins, which love music. [10]
The lion was indeed aroused at last, and whip or goad or wile of no avail. [9]
The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff--for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. [5]

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