Word: lionessed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eccentricities are mysteriously but reliably national. Balloonists are French, bomb throwers Bulgars, weeping drinkers Polish or Russian, and anyone who keeps a lioness as a pet is certain to be British. Author Joy Adamson was born in Vienna, but years of marriage to a senior game warden in Kenya were sufficient to infect her with a Briton's daft fondness for treating animals the way other people treat children...
...grand ear for gossip: "I never take nothing substantial of an evening," clucks one old hen to another. "My stomach would create on retiring." And, above all, he has felicity and precision in his use of word and image: "Though her words were dead," he says of a social lioness, "the shape and colour of their sentiments were irreproachable, like those green hydrangeas of the last phase, less a flower than a semblance, which such ladies dote on, and arrange in bowls...
...animal may be a publisher's best friend these days. Of late, zoophilous readers have embraced a lioness (Born Free), an otter (Ring of Bright Water) and an entire menagerie (A Zoo in My Luggage). A while back, in his pre-otter period, Gavin Maxwell was out shark hunting (Harpoon at a Venture), and that confirmed medievalist, T. H. White (The Once and Future King), was engaged in the bruising task of training The Goshawk. Now snakes, perhaps the oddest pets of all, have slithered upon the literary scene in the company of a legendary eccentric, C.J.P. Ionides...
Gabrielle is the ancient Chimera brought to life-the head of a lioness, clawlike hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d'Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France's first families, whom Peggy once dubbed "my little mouse"; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts...