Christian's glance rested on the Adventurer, unhooded to the morning light, and he guessed him, and knew him by silver mane and black brows an old lion-lord of a famous herd.
And the terrible breeds, the restive, I catch by the mane and school, against their resistance driving sharp ivory hard between the joints of their mail.
The lion was abashed the noble Cid to meet; He bowed his mane to the earth, his muzzle at his feet.
The Cid by the neck and the mane drew him to his den, He thrust him in at the hatch, and came to the hall again.
Under the shade of broad-spreading oaks little children climb on the tiger's yielding back and stroke the lion's tawny mane in a true Millennium.
What I maneto say is this,--Larry hadn't the very best of characters.
Steve ran and caught its mane and called to it, and it sprang forward with a bound as he swung to its back.
He caught his own horse by the mane again before it moved away, swung himself on to its bare back, and cantered over to the feeding mob of horses.
The maneof the lion forms a good defence against the attacks of rival lions, the one danger to which he is liable; for the males, as Sir A.
In the Hamadryas baboon, Ehrenberg compares the mane of the adult male to that of a young lion, whilst in the young of both sexes and in the female the mane is almost absent.
Baboon, Cape, mane of the male; Hamadryas, mane of the male.
Ram, mode of fighting of the; African, mane of an; fat-tailed.
Ehrenberg, on the mane of the male Hamadryas baboon.
Lion, polygamous; maneof the, defensive; roaring of the.
It is possible that the roaring of the lion may be of some service to him by striking terror into his adversary; for when enraged he likewise erects his mane and thus instinctively tries to make himself appear as terrible as possible.
Bison, American, co-operation of; maneof the male.
The mane is also longer and more flowing, and the ears are shorter, the limbs longer, and the head smaller.
The mane and tail should be silky and devoid of curl, which is a sign of impurity.
His mane is like a river flowing, And his eyes like embers glowing In the darkness of the night, And his pace as swift as light.
And the steed it shall be shod All in silver, housed in azure, And the mane shall swim the wind: And the hoofs along the sod Shall flash onward and keep measure, Till the shepherds look behind.
So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might.
This ligature by which they hang is carried a great way inwards, but reaches out to the top of the mane of the Whale.
Thanking him for his politeness Martin seized the horse by the mane and vaulted into the saddle, if the rude contrivance on its back might be so designated.
Its colour is a deep brownish black, its tough hide is covered with a thin sprinkling of strong hairs, and its mane is thick and bristly.
With two tremendous plunges he sprang wildly in the air, and shaking his long mane with passion, stretched out at the gallop.
To have killed the Frenchman would have been to lose my faithful follower, who struggled manfully with his adversary, and at length by throwing himself flatly forward upon the mane of his horse, completely disabled him.
A small groom stood there, holding a silver-roan cob with a black mane and black swish tail.
Rich-colored, downright of speech, with her mane of short hair, she was a no less startling companion.
On the steed she dropt her cheek, kissed his mane and kissed his neck,-- Toll slowly.
Like statues rooted there we stood, And gazed a little space, Above that floating mane we missed The dear familiar face, But we saw Bay Billy's eye of fire, And it gave us heart of grace.
Down from the lakes did raving come; Each wave was crested with tawny foam, Like the mane of a chestnut steed.
So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might.
His eyes under the black mane of hair were glowing deeply with a fire of something like exaltation, as he gazed away.
Sally stood silently at his side, and her cheeks flushed as the tears crept into her eyes; but her hand stole through the thick mane of hair, fast turning from iron-gray to snow-white.
He ran one bony hand through his graymane of hair.
If they haven't got it by heirship they can't make it by industry, and to accuse them of being without it is taking a mane advantage.
What do you mane by that, you big young scoundrel?
Terence,' says my father to me one day, 'what do you mane to do?
His mane and tail were not just quite so high, and his short half mile of start was down by more than half, but still he stayed ahead and paced and paced and paced.
There he stood silently and intently regarding the distant moor, his slightly bristling mane the only sign that he had not been suddenly turned to stone.
For a moment or so they stood against the sky to gaze, and then deciding that he knew him as well as he wished to, that black meteor flung his mane on the wind, and led off at his tireless, even swing, while the mares came streaming after.
But the night-black mane out level on the breeze ahead was gaining more and more.
And the great Black Horse, with his inky mane and tail and his green-lighted eyes, ranged through all that region and added to his following from many bands till not less than a score of mares were in his 'bunch.
He showed no desire to follow up or know more of the matter, but returned to the house, and half an hour afterward his mane was still bristling and his expression one of hate or fear.
Yet, when I went near him, he rose up with bristling mane and raised his voice, and for the last time made the canyon reverberate with his deep bass roar, a call for help, the muster call of his band.
On and on it raced, its strides prodigious, its mighty mane rising and falling, and blowing all around it in unrestrained confusion.
All I mane is that in common truth 'twas Miss Everdene and Sergeant Troy, but in the horrible so-help-me truth that ye want to make of it perhaps 'twas somebody else!
The stallion has a high arched neck, dilated nostrils, sparkling eyes, a heavy thick mane and tail, broad, deep hip and chest muscles and an elastic bearing.
A kaross of lion's skin was slung about his short but powerful frame, the mane forming a ruff round his huge bull-neck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bristle; coat; crop; fleece; fur; hair; head; horsehair; mane; mat; pelt; pile; seta; shock; thatch; wool
