Several sorts of panthers and smaller felidæ had their lairs in the thickets of Mesopotamia.
As for thee, thy degree is seen in the cattle-folds and in the lairs of the wild beasts, and it multiplies living things!
Here and there the ground is cleft to a deep ravine, which gapes in black contrast to the glare, and by its sudden darkness blinds the men and sheep that enter it to the beasts of prey which have their lairs in the recesses.
The piratical lairs began to empty of some of those who had been shown a way of escape, and the good work went on.
Both men and women, naked to their waists, sat up in their lairs and talked to us, and showed no sense of shame.
Some men have become predatory animals, and as such seek out lairs as would the beasts of prey.
Here and there a picket had, indeed, raised a song, or mingled in a dance, which had drawn the dusky savages around them, from their lairs in the forest.
Their entrance into the forest was perfectly unmolested; nor did they encounter any living objects, that could either give the alarm, or furnish the intelligence they needed, until they came upon the lairs of their own scouts.
Jack London tells in the "Children of the Abyss" of the East Side of London, where "they have dens and lairs into which to crawl for sleeping purposes, and that is all.
One can not travesty the word by calling such dens and lairs 'homes.
They all knew where that place was, but few of the Jungle People ever went there, because what they called the Cold Lairs was an old deserted city, lost and buried in the jungle, and beasts seldom use a place that men have once used.
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.
In the Cold Lairs the Monkey-People were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all.
In all the best districts for mountain game round Elbruz the traveller will find smoke-blackened lairs amongst the rocks, and round beds amongst the fallen pine needles at the base of some great tree just on the timber limit.
The blows which the demons from the British lairs strike are to you the blows of justice; and you are glad when they go home.
The truth, the right were also spirits; for though often invisible and denied by men, they could emerge at times from their invisible lairs to deal some quick blow and vindicate their divinity.
But there remain unexplored jungles and monster-breeding lairs within our nominal jurisdiction which it is the immediate task of science to clear.
It was the general opinion that Sandy had struck northward, and was probably safe in one of his lairs among the Welch Mountains.
So through the woods, the wild-beasts' lairs between, With Bacchanalian goads Alecto drives the Queen.
It sang over the dark and hideous lairs of the bloody Druids centuries before Julius Caesar was born, and they doubtless had a pleasant name for it, unless true music was hateful to their ears.
These twolairs were the worst specimens of basement-storey rooms in that close, but the rest were not much better, and their occupiers (all Scotch) were equally poor.
They were lairs into which a starving dog might creep to die, but nothing more.
The Germans had burrowed into the sides of the earth and established lairs far below the thirty feet level of the ravine, where they were practically out of reach of shell fire coming from whatever direction.
In a few of these dugouts the occupants refused to surrender and consequently their lairs were blown to pieces.
In a short time the wild beasts of the forest will come out of their lairs and roam about for their prey; and they are sure to devour you and your companion.
After sunrise the good tree said to her two inmates, "Unhappy women, the wild beasts have gone into their lairs after greatly tormenting me.
He was born in one of the most notoriouslairs of the accursed Vagres, those wandering men, those wolves, those heads of wolves who haunt only rocks, forests and caverns.
Now, mountebank, let us return to your bear; we had almost forgotten all about him, the wild fellow who was born in one of the lairs of the accursed Vagres.
The tenderness and mercy, most of all the restraint that has become manifest in men in these centuries since they have left their forest lairs to live in permanent abodes, had no place here.
Everywhere the hunters were leaving their lairs and starting forth; grasses moved and brush-clumps rustled; blood was hot and savage eyes were shot with fire.
Ben had come out from the darkened forest trails where he made his lairs and had gone into a cave to live!
On three sides the grim walls rose, festooned in fantastic draperies of tropic vegetation and pierced by cave- entrances--the rocky lairs of Koolau's subjects.
From one of the rocky lairscalabashes were produced and passed round.
The lepers obeyed, crawling away to theirlairs in the cliff, until only Koolau remained, sitting motionless in the moonlight, his rifle across his knees, as he gazed far down to the boats landing on the beach.
He can ride along the brink of the stupendous cliff-walled canyon, where eagles soar below him, and cougars make their lairs on the ledges and harry the big-horned sheep.
Usually their lairs are made in the well-nigh inaccessible ruggedness of the canyon itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
