"Lioness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I am a mother! and since no one else will look out for my son, I will look out for him myself!" roared the improvised lioness. ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... inkling—were upon the surface now. She ventured this freedom of facial expression because her daughter's face was hid. She did not speak. She laid a tender defending hand for an instant upon her daughter's shoulder—like the caress of love and encouragement the lioness gives her cub as she is about to give battle for it. Then she left the room. She did not know what to do, but she knew she ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... back while her left foot—which is that of a bird-of-prey—grasps the animal's head. The legs of this strange monster are human, and so is her body, but here, as in the personage walking by the river side, we find the short scratches that denote hair; her head is that of a lioness. For although her sex may appear doubtful to some it is difficult to explain the action of the two lion-cubs that spring towards her breasts otherwise than by M. Clermont-Ganneau's supposition that they ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
... she was one of the gang, and proud of it. She was neither masculine nor feminine, but human. As Vance Thompson has said, the lioness is a lion all but a little of the time, and so Mamise put off sexlessness with her overalls and put it on with her petticoats. She put off the coarseness at the same time as she scrubbed away ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... which I judged came from a human infant. I looked about me and found, close to the forest, a helpless babe, lying quite naked upon the grasses and wailing piteously. Not far away, screened by the forest, crouched Shiegra, the lioness, intent upon devouring the ...
— The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus • L. Frank Baum
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