Read full poem →Cities and their civilities,
And on the other, lions. Well,
(Your rash reply I thus foretell.)
Dictionary Entry
A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.
In a Sentence
“Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. lionsclub lionslions sealions twolions mountainlions young
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Poetry examples for “lions”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
Read full poem →tration, there have passed more than forty bil-
lions of dollars, and the finger of scorn does not
point to one single Democratic official in all
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Read full poem →Is just a little jungle, filled with tigers,
Snakes, lions, what you will, with teeth and claws,
The perfect miniatures of these monstrous foes.
Read full poem →The lion tamer.
One time, having starved the lions
For more than a day,
Read full poem →There was a painter and he painted well:
He'd paint you Daniel in the lions' den,
Beelzebub, Elaine, or William Tell.
Read full poem →And one wherein my fancy viewed
New lions ramping in his path.
The old were dead and had no fangs,
Read full poem →Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man,
Self-called George Sand! whose soul, amid the lions
Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance