And it was a young girl harassed with perplexities like these, whom he had permitted in his stead to beard the lioness.

He then approached the lioness, which pounced upon him with great fury, but was soon compelled to desist, and the prince, rapidly wielding his sword, in a moment cut off her head.

Let Æsop answer, who has set to view Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew; And mother Hubbard, in her homely dress, Has sharply blamed a British Lioness; That queen, whose feast the factious rabble keep, 10 Exposed obscenely naked and asleep.

The old lion has brought the lioness, and, the sheep being all gone, they have made a joint attack upon the bullock-house.

Emett and I, using a long pole in lieu of a horse, had carried Tom up from the Canyon to where we had captured the lioness.

My companions led the way, carrying the lioness suspended on the pole.

"The great giant had heard their shout of triumph when they had destroyed the mountain lioness and it made him very angry, for he hated any noise or disturbance; his name, Nikoochis, which means solitude, indicated this.

Then they unhooked one of the panniers and dumped out the lioness.

But in this woman he found the great enemy of his life,a lioness deprived of her whelps, whose wailing was so piteous and so savage that she aroused Europe from lethargy, and made coalitions which shook it to its centre.

When she asked them where they had been they replied that they had been to the canyon, and that they had killed both the mountain lioness and the great giant.

He has made war upon me like a wolf, you like a lioness."

"They had not gone very far when they met the great mountain lioness.

Agavè moanedso moans a lioness Over her young oneas she clutched his head: While Ino on the carcass fairly laid Her heel, and wrenched away shoulder and shoulder-blade.

"On emerging from the swamps," says Livingstone, "when walking before the wagon in the morning twilight, I observed a lioness about fifty yards from me in the squatting way they walk when going to spring.

" As he rose the lioness lurched, and reaching him, fastened her fangs in his leg.

To take from her the badge of office was like trying to separate a fierce lioness from her whelps.

Aelian says that Semiramis did not exult when in the chase she captured a lion, but was proud when she took a lioness, the dangers of the feat being far greater.

The young Hercules holding the lion's cub in his right hand upon his shoulder, while with his left he tames the raging lioness, has the true Italian instinct for a return to Latin style.

They noisily trailed the lioness into camp, where, finding her chained, they formed a ring around her.

And having consulted with Sudeshna thus, Kichaka went to princess Draupadi, and like a jackal in the forest accosting a lioness, spoke unto Krishna these words in a winning voice, 'Who and whose art thou, O beautiful one?

The dogs, however, turned one rattling old lioness, which came rumbling down through the cover, close past me.