Word: lionessed
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...frantically and got my hand free, but left shreds of flesh on Nero's teeth. Then he sank his teeth into my right leg until they actually penetrated to the bone and he started to drag me to one side of the arena. Just then he noticed the lioness, and went to her. I was unconscious the better part of twelve days, and they just about gave...
Pale Glimmer. The world will miss her as a poet, critic, biographer, social lioness, defender of art, warrior against Philistia. But above all, it will miss her as a great English eccentric. She was 6 ft. tall, with a haunted, Gothic face framed by wimples and toques; her long, narrow hands glimmered palely against brocade and velvet gowns. If at times she seemed to have created a lifelong pose for herself, it was a graceful pose of uncommon distinction. "I don't whine," she once said. "That's why everybody thinks I am enormously rich and have...
...bush country of central Africa, where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia's Lake Mcllwaine. Last summer, from a distance of less than 60 feet, she photographed a lioness chewing up the carcass of a wildebeest...
Miss Esterman was not nearly despicable enough. Where Strindberg sketched a viper, Miss Esterman gave us just a very protective lioness. She defended the Baroness by emphasizing maternal feelings disproportionately, softening the destructive feminism which Strindberg had bitterly written in the part...
...power of metamorphosis. However terrible an age, its art transmits only its music. The humanity of dead artists, when it transmits a scourge like the Assyrian horror, for all the torturer-kings of its bas-reliefs, fills our memory with the majesty of the Wounded Lioness. And one of the emotions this creature inspires in us is pity. If an art were to be born from the crematory ovens of our age, it would not express the executioners, it would express the martyrs." Worthy Dreams. "In the battle for the human imagination, a civilization unwilling to impose dreams upon...