Under the canopy lies the effigy of the dead magistrate, a recumbent figure laid on the top of a red marble sarcophagus, which rests in its turn on the backs of two couchant lions.
Lower, yet lower, he crouched, almost in the attitude of the panther couchant for his spring.
For in each coal-pit there doth couchantdwell A muzzled Etna, or an innocent Hell.
It may be seen in various forms on a number of monumental effigies and brasses, usually with the couchant white lion of the house of March as a pendant, but on the accession of Richard III the lion was replaced by his silver boar.
Sir Thomas Markenfield displays a collar formed of park palings, which widen out in front to enclose a couchant hart (fig.
Now for a blast, loud as a king's defiance, To rouse the monster couchant o'er his ravine!
It was he who lived in the square, red brick house with white blinds always pulled down, even in soft welcome spring days, and with plaster casts of lions and deercouchant on futile little wooden pedestals in the garden.
The latter, that couchant elephant with its head turned to the north-east, seems as if it wished to bar the pass with its trunk; by its trunk I mean a kind of jaggy ridge which descends down to the road.
That couchant shudder from its ambush broke, And openly ran wantoning over all The members of the terror-stricken man.
They went up the steps between the couchant lions and before they could knock Pat had opened the door, as though he had been listening for them.
Or it is as if one found a lion couchant in that hole in the sand; as indeed the buried part of the monster is in the form of a couchant lion.
The eternal night of death reigned over those couchant images of stone and bronze.
A large brown dog, that lay couchant in the hall, rose and followed him, and the last act of the daily farce was over.
Four rusticated columns support an arched pediment and two couchant lions holding shields.
The pedestal is raised on a flight of fifteen steps, at the angles of which are placed couchant lions from the designs of Sir Edwin Landseer.
Over the gate is graven in stone an anchor without a stock and a capital C couchant upon it.
A little case at Gizeh is carved in the shape of a couchant calf, the body being hollowed out, and the head and back forming a removable lid.
A couchant jackal is sometimes placed on the top, and serves for a handle by which to take off the lid.
Couchant ram, with statuette of royal founder, restored from the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak.
Thus at Syene (Asûan) we see a couchant obelisk of granite, the under side of which is one with the rock itself; and at Tehneh there are drums of columns but half disengaged.
Elsewhere, in places where the local worship admitted of such substitution, a couchant ram, holding a statuette of the royal founder between his bent forelegs, takes the place of the conventional sphinx (fig.
In front of two palm-trees proper, a lion couchant guardant erminois, resting the dexter claw upon a bale of cotton proper.
These supporters are two lions couchant (or), each helmed, and crested with an eagle au vol leve.
Crest of Bellasis of Marton, Westmoreland: A mount vert, thereon a lion couchant guardant azure, in front of a tent proper, lined gules.
Two savages mounted on griffins support its flanks; on the upper edge an armed knight sits on a couchant lion, and the space in base is filled by a human face between two wingless dragons.
A swan couchant appears as the crest of Barttelot, a swan regardant as the crest of Swaby, and a swan "rising" will be found as a crest of Guise and as a charge upon the arms of Muntz.
Crest: A woolpack charged with a ramcouchant all proper, ducally crowned azure.
In it, the breasts of the couchant sphinxes glowed, seeming to rise and fall as though they breathed.
He lay couchant on the stone floor at the foot of the bier, almost as silent as a dog of marble; the only sign of animation he gave being a deep sigh which broke from his honest heart now and then.
Couchant upon these precious cushionets Were thousand beauties, and as many smiles, Chaste blandishments, and modest cooling heats, Harmless temptations, and honest guiles.
The Knight of the Couchant Leopard yielded a ready and courteous assent; and the late foes, without an angry look or gesture of doubt, rode side by side to the little cluster of palm trees.
I am well contented," answered he of the Couchant Leopard; "but what security dost thou offer that thou wilt observe the truce?
Sordello, that noble and disdainful Lombard, eyes us from afar like a couchant lion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couchant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
