Sentence examples for king of beasts from inspiring English sources

Lion aquamanilia are especially dominant because the animal was, symbolically, a switch-hitter; the king of beasts could signify the King of Kings or mortal kings.

The proverbial "king of beasts," the lion has been one of the best-known wild animals since earliest times.

(Zurbarán wasn't always a dab hand with animals, as witness, too, the tutelary lion, resembling less the king of beasts than Bert Lahr, in "Judah").

But as equations go (ocean equals wine, campfire equals constellation, leading warrior equals king of beasts), these don't represent leaps of any sizable or significant distance.

"Lions have been used for centuries as the centre-pieces of coats of arms – widely perceived as the king of beasts, they stand for values such as bravery, valor and strength," a club statement enlightened us.

But the last word is had by a Met piece in which the king of beasts turns his head and clenches the neck of the king of serpents between his big square teeth.

From this surf-rinsed, king-of-beasts view of the world, I think, I, too, might be inclined to evangelize.

And the patron-pleasing king-of-beasts, sport-of-kings metaphors on which so much of his most familiar work is based are revealed as the death-wishing things they are.

There, 33 Kings of Beasts roam at will, to the delight of visitors safely ensconced in their automobiles.

On occasion, his writing becomes precious (bodies "carried across the bourne," lion after lion called "king of the beasts" and human history viewed, a few times too often, from the perspective of animal onlookers).

As late as the early Middle Ages, the bear, not the lion, was considered king of the beasts.