Illustration] The lion and lioness were just coming back, and when they heard the noise they came tearing home like the wind, and met little Jacko just in the mouth of the cave.
The lion and lioness were rather worried because Jacko did not get fat, so one day they stole in to listen to him talking to the rats, and as it happened they were just talking about bananas.
And he was so bold, he even pulled the tails of the lion and lioness one day.
Illustration] With another fearful roar, the lioness seized him in her teeth.
Illustration] As soon as their heads felt a little better, the lion and lioness took the cocoa-nuts.
Illustration] So they put him in the larder, which was just a little piece at the end of their cave, built up with big stones, and while the lion built it up, the lionesslay ready to spring on him if he tried to escape.
Illustration] And the lion and lioness peeping in, thought it was all Jacko, and they were delighted.
The spare camel was now brought up, and with great difficulty my three Tokrooris, the Hamran Arab, and myself succeeded in placing the lioness across the saddle, having first opened and cleaned the body to reduce the weight.
I accordingly instructed the men to keep a sharp look-out, and to throw their spears should the lioness charge, as I would provoke an attack by firing a shot at hazard into the long grass.
We measured this lionesscarefully with a piece of string; she was 9 feet 6 inches from nose to tip of tail.
Everybody turned and ran at their best speed, as the lioness in hot pursuit was within a few feet of us.
I gave my rifle to a servant, who deposited it against the tree, preparatory to my dismounting, when a lioness emerged from the bushes, and walked unconcernedly through our party, within only a few feet of the startled horses.
The lionesswas 9 feet 1 inch in length, and, when skinned, the body was dragged to a considerable distance and left for the hyenas.
At the report of the rifle the lioness uttered a loud roar and charged directly upon myself, the most prominent antagonist.
Being alone, he returned to camp to procure the necessary people, and together with these he went to the spot where he found the lioness in the same position.
The adventure with the lioness gave Tarzan food for pleasurable memories, for it was such affairs which broke the monotony of his daily life--otherwise but a dull round of searching for food, eating, and sleeping.
The lioness was now back in the path where she could see the author of the indignity which had been placed upon her.
Esmeralda, cowering still closer to her mistress, took one frightened glance toward the little square of moonlight, just as the lioness emitted a low, savage snarl.
The lioness was intently watching Tarzan, evidently expecting him to return to shore, but this the boy had no intention of doing.
Could Jane have known the immense strength of that door, built piece by piece, she would have felt less fear of the lioness reaching her by this avenue.
The lioness had taken but half her second bound when she felt the rope tighten about her neck; her body turned completely over in the air and she fell with a heavy crash upon her back.
With the subsidence of Esmeralda the lioness renewed her efforts to wriggle her huge bulk through the weakening lattice.
With a roar the lionessturned completely over upon her back, falling full upon her enemy; but the black-haired giant only closed tighter his hold.
Though more powerful and better equipped for fighting than the apes, the lioness had no desire to meet these enraged adults, and with a snarl of hatred she sprang quickly into the brush and disappeared.
Again and again the lioness repeated these tactics, until finally the horrified prisoner within saw a portion of the lattice give way, and in an instant one great paw and the head of the animal were thrust within the room.
Esmeralda thought that the noise upon the door was made by the lioness in her attempts to pursue her, so, after her custom, she fainted.
Though he knew that the lioness would make short work of both of them, he pulled with a will to keep it from Jane Porter.
She had always been afraid of firearms, and would never touch them, but now she rushed toward the ape with the fearlessness of a lioness protecting its young.
Up to this moment the lioness had held off the horsemen easily, but no sooner had she freed herself from Loveless's rope than she fled into the donga and hid herself in a thicket of scrub and grass.
With a quick change of front the lioness turned and charged the Colonel, who was sitting on his horse nearby.
The lioness had decided the issue and had bolted of her own accord.
To maneuver the horses was absolutely out of the question, so the lioness had to be shifted again.
Putting spurs to his horse, Loveless galloped away, hauling the lioness back across the gully and up into the tree, where she swung to and fro, dangling by the one hind foot and snapping upward at the rope she could not reach.
On the bank of the donga the lioness stopped to fight the ropers.
Still wondering, we watched him procure a long pole and ride quietly along the edge of the ditch toward the place where the lioness crouched.
The lioness had taken up her position at the end of a short tongue of land projecting into the donga, so that she was partially protected on three sides.
The day advanced and the dogs showed signs of tiring fast, yet the lioness still clung to the stronghold of the rocks.
But there was no stopping then, and before the lioness knew what he was up to, Means dashed by within a few feet of her and roped her round the neck.
For the first thirty yards of the race the lionessgained rapidly.
Again the lioness gained at first and again the horse drew away from her, and so, giving up the charge, she returned to another thorn bush, where she crouched down low and snarled and growled as before.
If it is a young lion or a lioness the first spectators retire from the sight disgusted, to make room for others whose raptures are equally soon calmed.
In an instant the lioness jumped up with an angry roar, and thrust out her paw between the bars.
One day the lioness and her two cubs were lying like that quite close to the bars of the cage.
The lioness feeds her cubs with her milk for about the first three months, and after that she gives them a little tender meat.
She too petted the cubs, then finally she stroked the lioness herself.
Each time the lioness licked her cubs, the lady stroked the cheeks of her own children affectionately.
Once a lion and a lioness were drinking the water from a little pool in the stony region.
Moreover, the tail of the lion or lioness hangs straight out from the body; it is not naturally curled, like the tail of the ordinary cat or other feline.
As the lionesslicked her cubs, the lady patted her own little children; and she smoothed their cheeks and hair.
While the lioness was still looking at her, the lady patted her two little girls on the cheek.
She spoke softly as if she meant only the lioness to hear her.
You may be sure that the lioness saw the lady and the two little children.
So a lioness has generally a family of two or three cubs to take care of.
She kissed the children, first one, and then the other--and the kiss seemed almost like the act of the lioness in licking the faces of her own cubs.
The young, lame, half-grown lion would growl at me now and then, because I have tamed his lioness and am her keeper, did not the habit of discipline and the instinct of affection hold him subdued.
I was not made so enduring to be mated with a lamb; I should find more congenial responsibility in the charge of a young lioness or leopardess.
And it may be imagined what the fury of a lioness will be when she has to fight for her young ones.
A lioness is simply the most terrible animal in existence when called upon to defend her cubs.
Mr. Fennel also tells us, that the first Lioness ever brought to England, died in the Tower in 1773, after having attained a great age.
Mr. Fennel, in his History of Quadrupeds, relates an interesting anecdote of a Lioness kept at the Tower in 1773.
When the Lioness was about to whelp, the dog was removed; but shortly after her accouchement had taken place, the dog contrived to enter the den, and approached the Lioness with his usual fondness.
In the twentieth tale we have a calf and a lion's whelp brought up together by a lioness upon the same milk.
We have already seen how white comes from black; the milk of the wolf, the bear, and the lioness is the alba luna, or the white morning sky brought back by the solar hero.
Both shots took effect, and the lioness lay and growled in a hollow, mellow tone.
I then thought it prudent to beat a retreat, which I very slowly did, talking to the lioness all the time.
The instant the lioness came on, I stood up to my full height, holding my rifle, and my arms extended high above my head.
He had hardly gone away before a lioness crossed the narrow neck of the canal, just before us, and clambered up the opposite bank.
We followed her up to the thicket, put the elephant's head into it, and we heard the lionessgrowling close to us.
Fraser then called to us to come round the bush, as the lionessbeing on a line with us, we prevented him from firing.
During the scuffle between the elephant and his driver, we heard the cry that the lioness was again off.
She again crossed the Nullah, and just as we had got our elephant to go well in, the lioness ran back, and crouched under a thicket on our left, where she had been originally started.
The lioness has no mane; is smaller, and more slender in her proportions than the male; she carries her head even with the line of her back, and wants the majestic courage of the lion, but she is more agile.
By-and-by the eldest brother of the Lioness came home again, with a fine fat deer which he had killed.
Just as the Lioness was getting anxious about her eldest brother, the second came in.
But they were not on visiting terms, so the Lioness was surprised to see him come tapping at her door.
The Lioness looked out, and very much surprised was the Lioness to see the Jackal there.
This offer so astonished the Lioness that she could say nothing.
Now when the third brother came in, the Lionesswas quite sure she didn't mean to die.
All at once she wheeled upon him like a lionessprotecting its young.
Yes, as a mother gives up her child, as a lioness her cub.
I had noticed that the lioness went into a thick green bush, or rather cluster of bushes, growing near the water, about fifty yards higher up, for there was a little stream running down the kloof, and I walked towards this bush.
Out, too, came the lioness like a flash of light, but quick as she went I managed to put the other bullet into her ribs, so that she rolled right over three times like a shot rabbit.
Hardly was the thought out of my head when I caught sight in the moonlight of the lioness bounding along through the long grass, and after her a couple of cubs about the size of mastiffs.
The dogs made chase after him; but Hendricks, fearing that they would perhaps encounter the lioness and come to grief, called them back.
All at once the lion stopped, then gazing a moment at the intruders, galloped off after the cubs, but the lioness still came bounding on.
Hendricks caught sight of the lion, followed at a distance by the cubs, stealing down the hill towards the spot where the lioness had been shot.
Those little brutes were sent out by the lion and lioness to watch us.
It was well they did so, for scarcely had they gone fifty paces more when a lion and lioness suddenly bounded out with rapid strides, their heads and tails up.
Presently I saw a pack of jackals run by, with a lioness at their heels, when the lion turned and joined her.
Thereupon, the lioness walked towards him, and, after one long stare over her shoulder, she lay on the grass and rolled over like a big dog, and the lion crouched down with his shaggy head on his outstretched paws.
Instead of the hippopotamus, a fine lion and lioness were lying on the sand about sixty yards to my left, at the foot of the bank.
This was great luck, and we now required two camels, as in two shots I had killed a lioness and a nellut (A.
The lioness lay dying with the bullet wound in the shoulder.
She obtained a very profitable engagement, and her reputation increased with every part she played; and before the end of a year after her first appearance, she was the lioness of society.
Suddenly a lioness stole out of the bushes, her mouth bloody with the recent gorging of oxen, and slunk down to the pool to drink.
The lioness having drunk her fill walked over to the tree and sniffed curiously at the bit of silk, then worried at it with her bloody teeth, as a dog plays with a rag.
All this time Thisbe was hiding safely in the cave, and when she at length ventured out, she gazed fearfully around to be sure that no lioness was lying in wait to devour her.
Dona Emilia, aroused by this cry, bounded like a lioness from her hammock, and seized her babe.
Turning my horse to the left to resume my journey, walking the horse past a bush close on my right, about fifty yards from the carcass, I came right upon a full-grown lion and lioness lying down.
Another began roaring in the distance, when the lioness roared in reply, the lion trying to prevent her.
A hunter relates being once in a tree watching a lioness and a lion.
The Lioness and her cubs were interested from the first, though when the violinist approached the cage the mother gave a hiss, and the cubs hid behind her.
Only onelioness showed any disposition to be offensive, and she did not venture to go beyond yawning ostentatiously whenever Mlle.
It was not so much the lions, though they struck me as larger and less easy-tempered than on the first occasion, while the lioness was as nearly in open revolt as she dared.
Another man, with steely gray eyes and a stubble of beard, ventured the opinion that they must have had a pretty poor quality of gumption in that outfit, or somebody would have got the lionessinto her cage.
Another groom sleeps farther on, beside the Tibet goats, and still another near the ponies, opposite the small cage of the lioness Mignon.
Well," continued the man, "George Conklin had that cage fixed up and the lioness safe inside within forty minutes by the clock.
It was in Kansas City, and for some days Spitfire had been working badly, so that on this particular afternoon Bianca had spent two hours in the big exhibition cage trying to get the lioness into good form.
Finally, the situation grew serious, for the evening performance was coming on, and it was quite sure there would be no audience with an uncaged lioness on the premises.
And no matter how great the crush of business, there was always time for visiting a sick lioness out in the stable, who would never be better, poor thing, but should have all possible comforts for her last days.
So it became a matter of business in this wise--a lioness worth a few hundred dollars against an audience worth a couple of thousand.
Having regained her cubs, there was a chance, a mighty slim one, but still a chance, that the lioness would take them and go.
As my weapon was discharged, the lionessemitted a great roar, gave a whisk of her tail and dashed off into the forest.
As the door swung open, the lioness leaped for my leg, but the next instant she saw in the room beyond her two cubs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lioness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
