Dozands of people are taking out policies, myriads of lions are being put on you.
They pay several dozen lionsfor those apartments to the Council--to you, I should say.
Graham still felt a difficulty with the coinage, and this mention of a dozen lions brought him abruptly to that matter.
Billions and billions of lions at last--the Sleeper's estate.
A crowned fleur-de-lis is constantly repeated on the walls, and on the gates the shield of France is to be seen next to the lions of England; for our English sovereigns continued to assert their right to the French succession.
And David answered King Saul: "I am only a shepherd, but I have fought with lions and bears, when they have tried to steal my sheep.
They were all thrown into the den, and the hungry lions leaped upon them, and tore them in pieces, so soon as they fell upon the floor of the den.
All France was frantic with the study of plants, animals, poultry-yards, and projects for driving tigers in cabriolets, and harnessinglions a la Cybele.
Half-a-dozen lions let loose in the Bois de Boulogne would let the naturalist into more knowledge of their nature than a menagerie for fifty years.
I have been told that the lions in confinement die chiefly of consumption--a singularly sentimental disease for this proud ravager of the desert.
In the evening I went to the French Opera, which is still one of the lions of Paris.
But he found the work for her himself with the older painters.
Again, with his heart sore, be kissed her and surrendered to her wishes with a sigh.
The prisoner is simultaneously attacked by curs, and by one of the historical lions of the Tower, which cannot do much harm, being chained to the secure post Magna Charta.
At last Duke Wellington and Grey Came in each other’s sight; Like lions roused they stand at bay, And parley ere they fight.
Joshua showed him the lions of the city; and painted his picture, making so fine a portrait that when Mr. Craunch got back home he threw away the one made by Warmell.
But there are lions in Venice--stone lions--you see them at every turn.
They drew horses, sheep, donkeys, cattle, dogs; and when their father took them to the Zoological Garden it was only that they might bring back trophies in the way of lions and tigers.
This man said that it is easy to get the ant-lions to dig pits in boxes of sand in the house, and so we can try with our 'collected' fellow.
But one must live, and why not ant-lions as well as ants?
The presence of the little wife gave an added charm to these stories; for it was evident that the tamer of lions was completely subdued by the small woman.
She's awful pious, and boxed my ears with a psalm-book last Sabbath, when I said I wished the lions would bite Daniel in the den, I was so tired of seeing them stare and roar at him.
This he confirms, by observing that the lions and tigers which are found in the former, must have come from those countries, and whose passage serves for a proof that the two hemispheres join to the northward of Asia.
With the death of Garrick a new era opened in the life of Hannah More, although for the succeeding five years she still was a frequent visitor in the houses of those she esteemed, both literary lions and people of rank.
Thus the Elector by faith stopped the mouths oflions and subdued kingdoms.
Lions and leopards also infested those States, but these and the game have been pretty well extirpated since, except in some of the lower parts of the Transvaal.
If there were a larger party and the lions numerous, the lessons would be learnt so much better by way of emulation.
We also had excitements--much lions' spoor on the roads by day, many scares of lions round the camps by night, when the danger is that the horses may be taken while the camp is asleep.
Monkeys die of consumption, so do lions and tigers.
I bade them serve you; and, if they obey not, I keep my lions keen within their dens, To stop their maws with disobedient slaves.
Such if I were, yet rugged lions love, And grapple, and compel their savage dames.
In popular stories, now terrible lions and now dreadful dogs are found guarding the gate of the monster's dwelling.
The sarcophagus, which had a lid guarded by lions at the four corners, was ornamented at both ends and along both sides by reliefs.
While the form of the tomb, and the lions that ornament the covering, are unmistakably Cyprio-Phoenician, the reliefs contain scarcely a feature which is even Oriental; all has markedly the colouring and the physiognomy of Hellenism.
Human figures struggling with lions, and lions killing wild bulls, are also common;[7119] but the type in these cases is less Egyptian than Oriental.
The employment of animal forms in external decoration was exceedingly rare; and the half lions of the circular Méghâzil of Amrith are almost unique.
Desert after desert she consumed; the lions fled before her; she overtook them in a moment; clouds of sand she sent up into the air.
With his other hand he guided his two dragon-winged lions through the glowing air of the desert.
They see lions in their path, and therefore fear to do their duty.
If you encounter lions in your path, exterminate them.
Finally, on the fifth, golden figures, representing lions and bulls, were placed alternately.
The extremities of the axletrees were made of gold, representing the mouths of lions biting a dart.
The party then rode close to the ruins, every now and then observing the broad prints of feet the lions had left in the soil.
Our guides, indeed, told us, that all the ruins abounded in lions and other wild beasts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
