Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionizers
Literary usage of Lionizers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... and a somewhat miscellaneous lover ; and caustic severity upon the lionizers
and "admirers of native genius' ' who could find no employment more ..."
2. Gleanings in Europe by James Fenimore Cooper (1837)
"We are true village lionizers. As the professors of the Catholic religion are
notoriously more addicted to yielding faith to miraculous interventions, ..."
3. Theology in the English Poets: Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Burns by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1880)
"... company of the lionizers of genins, who seek it to be amused and then mock at
the source of their amusement. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers by William Hanna (1857)
"Whatever the lionizers may imagine, there is great discomfort often brought upon
the lion, who has nothing for it but just to run off, in the hope that beth ..."
5. The Token and Atlantic Souvenir.: A Christmas and New Year's Present. MDCCCXXXVI by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837)
"The lady whose Persian carpets we had the honor of treading, is one of the most
skilful of lionizers, and knows perfectly how to show up the animals of her ..."
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