Before I allowed anything further to be done, however, I had the patch of rushes thoroughly beaten out: but as no traces of the lionesses could be found, we commenced to skin my fine trophy.
But if the lion has one or two lionesses to help him, they can all attack the buffalo at the same time, and pull it down and stun it with many blows.
In that case they hunt the prey in a pack; that is, the lion and the lionesses all hunt the prey together; and they are even helped by the older cubs.
On the morrow, Moses and Aaron came again to the king’s palace, and the lionesses would have devoured them.
Then two lionesseswere placed before the palace to protect it, and the beasts suffered no man to enter unless Pharoah gave the word.
The nightmare of wild beasts is carried on in the inside of the churches: there again, under the columns of the pulpits are the lions and lionessesgnashing their teeth, tearing stags and gazelles and playing with human heads.
I imagine these central lions to be more recent (having perhaps replaced others) than their neighbours, which are obliterated to the extent of being lions or lionesses only by guesswork.
But there are wild beasts, lions and lionesses, among the works of thirteenth-century sculptors, and lions and lionesses continue for a long time as ornaments of pure Gothic architecture.
On one occasion I was attracted by vultures to the spot where a lion and two lionesses had shortly before killed a cow buffalo, and I had a good opportunity of watching them before I fired, as I was well concealed.
It consisted of three lions with splendid dark manes, five or six lionesses and the rest cubs from three parts grown down to the size of a fox terrier.
The second time I was attracted to where a lion and two lionesseshad killed a cow buffalo, mentioned above.
All the great ladies of the Bluestocking Court were there: the vastly learned Mrs Carter, Mrs Delany over from Ireland, the Swan of Lichfield Miss Anna Seward, Mrs Chapone, and other lionesses and cubesses.
I am not become learned, Kitty, but 'twas to hear the lionesses roar, and because I knew the Lord of Strawberry would be there and was wishful to hear his exultations.
The fame of Brown's lionesses had spread through St. Ambrose's already, and Hardy had heard of them as well as other men.
A few days after encountering the second pair of lions, a friend and myself came upon two lionesses on the same open plain, both of which we shot.
One of these lionesses was on the point of giving birth to three cubs, which we cut out of her womb.
On another occasion, late one evening, I saw a lion and two lionesses lying in wait for some cattle of mine which were feeding towards them.
I can only hazard the suggestion that they had followed the lionesses in the hope that they would kill some large animal, whose bones they would then have picked after the nobler animals had eaten their full.
When I heard them howling, perhaps they were upbraiding the lionessesfor their want of success.
Yet once, and perhaps twice, I saw lionesses stalking through tall grass as early as three o'clock in the afternoon.
A lion and two lionesses stood upon it, staring up at us with great yellow eyes.
The lionesses see the performance many times in the course of a season, but they never lose interest in it and they do not remove their eyes from Selica from the time she enters the cage until she drives them out before her.
One of the lionesses had a litter of three cubs, and in the excitement of the moving and strange surroundings, she killed two of them.
A few moments later, coming to a more open part, I saw two largelionesses trotting along in front of me.
This was the only lion I actually fired at, though I saw four lionesses one day, and tracked a lion and lioness on another occasion for a long distance and got close to them, but, owing to the thickness of the bush, could not see them.
Several shots were fired and two lionesses and a hyena killed, but one wounded lion succeeded in escaping.
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