lion

• The idea of being what we call a lion is offensive enough to any man, of not more than common vanity, or less than common understanding; it was doubly offensive to him. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
• The Western Continent has ben exempted by Providence from animals of the most destructive kinds, as the lion is a native of Africa, and the tiger of India; the ounce, the ocelot, the leopard, the lynx, and the cougar are more diffused, but are never met in sufficient numbers to occupy a prominent place in natural history. —  Harper's Magazine
• He concludes the paragraph from which I have just been quoting by saying, "To class man and the ape together, or the lion with the cat, and to say that the lion is a cat with a mane and a long tail_--this were to degrade and disfigure nature instead of describing her and denominating her species." —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• Brave as a lion were my feyther, sir, an' bred up to the road; v'y, Lord! —  The Amateur Gentleman
• But an honest man travelling in Barbary on his own account would pick up every one of these truths in two or three days, except the one about the lions; to pick up that truth you must go to the very edge of the country, for the lion is a shy beast and withdraws from men The wise man who really wants to see things as they are and to understand them, does not say: "Here I am on the burning soil of Africa." —  First and Last

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