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Definition of Lionets
1. lionet [n] - See also: lionet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionets
Literary usage of Lionets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch (1867)
"LDiv.47.a.; C 3 cf. LD iv. 14. bc; Br. G. 3 \\ XVi. 141, 142. O % pekk. lionets.
LD iv. 82. b. » ,1,/,-liu.. Kind of food. LD iii. 260. c., ii. 67. a. Food. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Though lionets sing, though flowers adorn the green, Though on their wings soft
Zephyrs fragrance bear: Harsh is the music, joyless is the scene, ..."
3. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"The whelps (lionets) he was sorry to find were dead, and on particular enquiry
his old friend the Ouran Outang had gone the way of all flesh also. ..."
4. The Seasons by James Thomson (1827)
"... While congregated thrushes, lionets, larks, And each wild throat, whose artless
strains so late Swell'd all the music of the swarming shades, ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Hist, He the raging lionets confounds, The roaring lion with his javelin wounds;
Scatters their whelps, ..."
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