Leonine city;" and Guiscard "burnt the town from the Flaminian gate to the Antonine column, and laid waste the Esquiline to the Lateran; thence he set fire to the region from that church to the Coliseum and the Capitol.
And filling the ten sides with loud leonine roars and rushing at those Gandharvas that had been guarding the gates, they entered the forest.
And he was possessed of leonine eyes and shoulders like those of a bull.
And beholding Karna cutting his own body, the entire host of celestials and men and Danavas set up a leonine roar.
And when Ravana, too, rushed against his antagonist, a loud wail of woe was set up by the creatures of the Earth, while the celestials in heaven sent forth a leonine roar accompanied by beating of large drums.
And, O highly powerful one, O hero, when thou shall giveleonine roars, then shall I with my own, add force to shouts.
And that one of mighty arms and of leonine shoulders, though possessed of strength often thousand elephants, yet seized by the snake, and overpowered by virtue of the boon, lost all strength.
Rozenoffski gave a masterly start of surprise, and turned his leonine head in dazed bewilderment.
There was something leonine in his movement, something leonine in his snarl as he fell on her.
Professedly composed in the thirteenth century by a monk called Hermann, of the cloister of Lehnin in Brandenburg, it characterized with historical accuracy in 100 Leonine verses the Brandenburg princes down to Frederick III.
The fellowship between the arts of healing and cooking is brought to our recollection by a leonine verse at the end of one of the shorter separate collections above described:-- "Explicit de Coquina Quae est optima Medicina.
The other, or theleonine blonde, has an opaline fire in her clear eye, which the brunette can hardly match with her quick glittering glances.
I USED to think that if a man In any character could score a Distinctly leonine success, 'Twould be as a returned explorer.
His features, too large and heavy in his youth, had become strong and regular, and although he had not acquired that leonine look of reserved power with which he confronted the United States Senate, his expression was frank and fearless.
Longfellow had a leonine face, but it was that of a very mild lion; one that had never learned the use of teeth and claws.
Their fists were up, and they eyed each other in a calm that had the elements of leonine cruelty in it.
In the sudden glance he threw from one to another he impressed them as being both leonine and impracticable.
Husein Abu Ridhwan was the only remaining sheykh in 1870, Mansur Ibn Gormah also having recently died.
The pilgrims of the Middle Ages generally dreaded the Bedawyn who were apt to swoop down on them, clamouring for dues, as they passed from the territory of one tribe into that of another, but we hear of few excesses committed by them.
The massive head, the fine face, the rugged sense and leonine strength in face and figure, lent force to a criticism of extraordinary effectiveness on the attacks levelled against the Bill.
Thus the two men crossed the Trastavere, and each in turn, emerging from a gate in the wall of the Leonine City, passed out into the marshy country beyond.
He had hired one of the numerous private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad thoroughfare near the point where the Ponte St. Angelo connects Rome proper with that transtiberine suburb known as the Leonine City or Trastavere.
In the leonine eyes looking into hers gleamed the light of admiration and approval.
Dunbar, without removing his leonine eyes from the newcomer.
A massive head, with tawny, leonine eyes; indeed, altogether a leonine face, and a frame indicative of tremendous nervous energy.
In 1083 he was more successful, and seized that portion of Rome called the Leonine city, which included St. Peter's and the tombs of the Apostles, the great shrine which gave sanctity to the whole.
Were we to be very minute, it might be easily proved that almost every Pope contributed something to the existence and decoration of the Leonine city, the imperium in imperio; and specially, as was natural, to the great basilica.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leonine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: catty; feline; kittenish
