Lion d’Or, on the Ouvèze, which here enters the Rhône.
Some fine bells from Nepal were evidently thelion of the temple.
The archers and gunners on the ramparts above jeered mockingly at the halted French, and sent a rain of stones and arrows down at them, waving their banners, which mingled the leopards of England with the rampant two-tailed lion of Burgundy.
Rouen was very full of people, and the leopards of England and the two-tailed lion of Burgundy were to be seen on every side.
The king himself seemed pleased with my performance, for he afterwards testified to his satisfaction by sending me the Order of the Lion and Sun, and what was more to the purpose, a valuable Persian shawl.
In fact, Castruccio was exactly the sort of person to be made a lion of.
He soon learned to limit his desire of effect or distinction to gilded saloons; and his vanity contented itself upon the scraps and morsels from which the lion heart of true ambition turns in disdain.
Their flight soon came to the ears of the chief, who, being vexed and mortified at the trick they had played him, set out with his attendants like a raging lion in quest of his prey.
As a mark of respect, they were allowed to use flags with the figure of a lion on them, and use golden vessels (kalasam) in their houses.
Now, if you want to see a stone lion done true to Nature, you've only to walk any day along the Euston Road.
But he was no match for the fierce old lion of a Frenchman.
Like a caged and wounded lion Burgoyne now sought a way out of the trap in which he was.
Like the fierce old lion he was he knit his brows and stamped with his wooden leg.
She said the very oddity of the thing would draw trade, that I could have the picture of the lion painted out an' a big boot an' shoe put in place of it.
It would not be safe for little foxes always to follow the example of this one; but it is often true that what our fear makes seem a lion in the way has no danger in it if we meet it bravely.
THE MAN AND THE LION A MAN and a Lion were once journeying together and came at length to high words as to which was the braver and stronger creature of the two.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE IT ONCE happened that a hungry Lion woke to find a Mouse just under his paw.
The Lion said he was very sick and asked the Fox to come in and see him.
THE FOX AND THE LION THE first time the Fox saw the Lion, he was ready to die of fear.
But this much is certain—the Squirrel found favor in the Lion’s eyes, and to satisfy the Lion is certainly no light affair.
Dear me,” said the Fox, as he hid behind a tree, “I never saw a Lion before.
Just at this moment a lion came crashing through the forest and made ready to spring upon him.
The next time the Fox met the Lion he was not so much afraid, but he kept a safe distance and said to himself, “I wish he would not make such a noise!
The Lion laughed scornfully at this, but it amused him so much that he lifted his paw and let his brave little prisoner go free.
THE SICK LION AND THE FOX A LION who was too old and feeble to hunt for prey saw that he must get it, if at all, by cunning.
When the lamb takes place of the lion as the emblem of nations, both women and men will be as children of one spirit, perpetual learners of the word and doers thereof, not hearers only.
Well, those of us who couldn't swim could float, so none of us was drowned," the Lion answered.
Oh, he said he was pretending there was another flood, and he wanted to see if any of us could swim," the Lion answered.
I wonder if I'll be put in the bathtub, as the Wooden Lion was," thought the Lamb.
I really haven't been the same Lion since," he added, with a sorrowful sigh.
The stable was set in a corner of the playroom, near a little Wooden Lion that had once lived in a Noah's Ark.
It is much more fun than it would be to be crowded into a Noah's Ark like the Wooden Lion and thrown into the flooded bathtub.
I won't bite you," said the Wooden Lionto the Lamb on Wheels, when they were left alone in the playroom.
She seemed to have, at the same time, the nature of a lion and a lamb.
For when the lion fits were on, it was always safest to let the unhappy child alone.
Then she had not tried in the least to control herself, and the lion had had his own way.
A lion of a man he was in those Watertown days, relentless, indomitable, fearless--yet possessing in his varied nature keen qualities of humor and of human understanding that were tremendous factors in the winning of his success.
The Potsdam had a picture of a lion painted upon her front boiler door, the work of some gifted local artist, unknown to present fame.
There was a monstracious lion with teeth half a quarter long, and a gentleman bid me not go near him if I wasn’t a maid, being as how he would roar, and tear, and play the dickens.
His majesty the lion proposed that they be suitably apportioned.
In the fable of the Sick Lion and the Fox, the fox says: "I see the footprints of beasts who have gone into the cave, but of none that have come out.
The lion looked down angrily and saw his own image, the image of an angry lion glaring back at him.
The lion had now obtained his end, and seized and devoured them singly.
Children naturally admire the beauty of the tiger's skin, and the lion in their eyes is a noble creature, of whose ferocity they have no conception.
The fable of the Lion and the Deer illustrates the exorbitant exactions practiced by despots.
For example, the fable of King Lion and the Sly Little Jackals.
A lion is caught in the toils, and would perish did not a little mouse come to his aid by gnawing asunder the knots and fastenings.
Do not try to appear like a lion when you can not support the character, because people will find out that you are only an ass.
I have seen the gold St. Mark lion I gave you on the Prince's chain.
No iron deer or marble lion marred the lawn which he was now traversing; a sign of good taste.
Without embellishment, as if they were ordinary, every-day affairs, they exchanged tales of adventure in strange island wildernesses; and there were lion hunts and man hunts and fierce battles on land and sea.
Her he faced Like a lion with anger in his breast.
Ah, when the lion bares his teeth, suspect his guile, Nor fancy that the lion shows to you a smile.
Subdued to scorn as a lion whom base hyenas torment.
Goes at Antwerp a still larger one of a ragged man flourishing a club, while his shield displays a white lion on a black ground.
While Peter lived, the tortured man felt that he was a lion in a cage into which a sparrow had come.
No wonder his throat gives forth only harsh and unmeaning sounds, instead of the nobler roar of the lion or the bright and cheering song notes of us birds!
If now you had expressed a wish to be one of the nobler animals, a lion or a tiger, for instance, I might have excused you.
Mr. Charles Sumner was the greatest drawing-room lion of his day, and his mane was combed by a thousand delicate hands, often held up in admiration at his gentle roarings.
The old British lion is giving an honest roar, in view of the indignity visited upon the Queen’s flag.
As to the method of bringing science to bear on Scripture, the Physiologus gives an example, illustrating the passage in the book of Job which speaks of the old lion perishing for lack of prey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
